A large U.S. spy satellite has lost power and propulsion and could hit the Earth in late February or March, government officials said Saturday. ...more

January 27, 2008

George Habash, whose radical Palestine Liberation Organization faction gained notoriety after the simultaneous hijackings of four Western airliners in 1970 and the seizure of an Air France flight to Entebbe, Uganda, died Saturday in Jordan. He was 81. ...more

January 27, 2008

President Bush began two days of talks with Saudi leaders Monday as his administration sent formal notice to Congress of a controversial U.S. sale of "smart bomb" technology to this desert kingdom. ...more

January 15, 2008

Small Iranian fast boats swarmed around massive U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf, and a man speaking heavily accented English threatened, "I am coming to you. ... You will explode," according to a video released Tuesday by the Pentagon. ...more

January 9, 2008

An Iranian fleet of high-speed boats charged at and threatened to blow up a three-ship U.S. Navy convoy passing near Iranian waters, then vanished as the American ship commanders were preparing to open fire, the top U.S. Navy commander in the area said Monday. ...more

January 8, 2008

As the sun sets, the sky slowly turns a deep orange rose over Dubai. Crates of merchandise - food, clothes, General Electric appliances, Hewlett-Packard computers - are loaded onto dhows, the traditional wooden vessels that still ply the ancient routes to Iran about 60 miles to the north. ...more

December 30, 2007

The Senate passed a trimmed-back energy bill Thursday that would bring cars and sport utility vehicles with higher gas mileage into showrooms in the coming decade and fill their tanks with ethanol. ...more

December 14, 2007

The leader of Iraq's biggest Shiite militia movement has resumed seminary studies toward attaining the title of ayatollah - a goal that could make Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army an even more formidable power broker in Iraq. ...more

December 14, 2007

Iran's potential to shut down nearly 40 percent of the world's oil trade represents a weapon possibly more powerful than its missiles, gunboats or any arms system Tehran claims to possess. ...more

December 2, 2007

U.S. defense officials have signaled that up-to-date attack plans are available if needed in the escalating crisis over Iran's nuclear aims, although no strike appears imminent. ...more

November 9, 2007