He's a tattooed guitar slinger who covers Motorhead and scored tour sponsorship from Jagermeister. Rick Monroe plays hard-core, raw, in-your-face ... country. ...more

March 13, 2009

taking 52 percent of the popular vote to John McCain's 46 percent. ...more

November 9, 2008

The quarrel didn't last long. Angry Sunni fighters temporarily abandoned their checkpoints in a western Baghdad neighborhood after Iraqi soldiers briefly detained some of their colleagues, whose U.S.-backed patrols have helped curb violence. ...more

September 26, 2008

Concern over upcoming elections and widening tensions among Iraq's religious and ethnic groups appear to be the reasons for the U.S. military's recommendation to put the brakes on withdrawing more American troops from Iraq despite improvements in security. ...more

September 6, 2008

It can't hold as many screaming fans as the football stadium in Denver, where Sen. Barack Obama is to address an expected crowd of 75,000 on Aug. 28. Nor is it conveniently located near the scenic Mississippi River, like the arena in St. Paul, Minn., where Sen. John McCain is to take the stage a few days later. But the 3,000-seat auditorium at pastor Rick Warren's Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., does have one notable advantage: It's a stage that Obama and McCain recently agreed to share, at least for a little while, on Aug. 16. ...more

August 3, 2008

Violent overnight clashes in Northern Ireland left 14 police officers and five other people injured early Saturday as the volatile "marching season" reached its climax with Protestant parades. ...more

July 13, 2008

Hundreds of U.S.-backed Sunni tribesman shut their offices and rallied northeast of Baghdad on Saturday, demanding the resignation of a provincial police chief whom they accuse of sectarian bias. ...more

February 10, 2008

Three female suicide bombers blew themselves up within a few weeks late last year in Iraq, killing or wounding dozens - a tactic that goes against religious taboos on involving women in fighting and could indicate insurgents are growing increasingly desperate. ...more

January 5, 2008

Turkey sent hundreds of troops across the border into the frigid mountains of northern Iraq on Tuesday, claiming it inflicted heavy losses on Turkish Kurd rebels in the small-scale incursion and from air strikes two days earlier. ...more

December 19, 2007

Gunmen in Baghdad snatched 10 Sunni and Shiite tribal sheiks from their cars Sunday as they were heading home to Diyala province after talks with the government on fighting al-Qaida, and at least one was later found shot to death. ...more

October 29, 2007