Archaeologists said Sunday they had uncovered decorated human skulls dating back as long as 9,500 years ago from a burial site near the Syrian capital Damascus.
"The human skulls date back between 9,500 and 9,000 years ago, (on which) lifel
The U.S. Army is considering whether to add more combat units to the rotation plan to meet a top commander's decision to keep more than 140,000 troops in the country until at least mid-2007, The Washington Times reported on Monday.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said he wants a Senate vote soon on an immigration bill focusing primarily on border security, but acknowledged that quick passage is doubtful.
The Senate is likely this week to pass a bill that outlines rules for interrogating terrorism suspects and bringing them to trial, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said. "Unless we pass this bill, we cannot have an interrogation program continu
Sen. John McCain urged quick confirmation for John Bolton as U.N. ambassador, saying the nominee is needed to talk back to "two-bit dictators" such as Venezuela's president.
5 years after the anthrax attacks that killed 5 people, the FBI is now convinced that the lethal powder sent to the Senate was far less sophisticated than originally believed, widening the pool of possible suspects in a frustratingly slow investigati
Disarming Hezbollah, the militant Lebanese Shiite group that fought Israel, is a major goal in Washington, Jerusalem and even among the political elite in Beirut. The main stumbling block, is a 10-mile-square area known as Shabaa Farms.
The prospects of a Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in the early 1990's led China to accelerate its testing schedule and discuss differences within the Russian government over testing, according to documents obtained through the Freedom of I
Television stations in Montana have been warned that an advertisement produced by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee containing statements made by Republican Senator Conrad Burns may be inappropriate for television.
When they were called up for military service in the wake of 9/11, hundreds of uniformed city workers in the Reserves faced the suspension of their city health and pension benefits. The city offered them an option: it would keep paying their salaries
US spy agencies have dropped a political bombshell 6 weeks before elections, with the leak of a classified report concluding that the war in Iraq has spawned a new wave of Islamic radicalism and increased the global threat of terrorism.
Iraqi leaders averted a political crisis by striking a compromise between warring Shiite and Sunni groups over the issue of breaking the war-torn country into autonomous regions. [We'll meet at a round table.]
House-Senate negotiators approved a new $70 billion infusion for military operations in
Iraq and
Afghanistan as they wrapped up talks on a $447 billion
Pentagon funding bill.
A new report on human rights violations in Iraq documents how devastatingly easy it is to die here - and how increasingly difficult it is to live.
The report, prepared by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq, said a breakdown of law and
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Sudan's Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are divided by background and political philosophies, but they spoke as one regarding US bullying and misdeeds.
Chavez denounced the "imperia
Explains why the Bush administration will end up taking military action against Iran. In a way, the Bush administration's policies have created the conditions in which such an American move becomes almost inevitable.
A nationwide civil disobedience campaign aiming to force the administration of President Bush and the Congress to end the military occupation of Iraq is now in full swing. More than 500 peace groups and justice organizations from all over the
A judge refused to allow the release on bond of a US citizen prosecutors said wanted to join the Taliban after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks while the United States was at war with the Islamic radical movement.
Federal prosecutors dropped a charge that an alleged fundraiser for the Palestinian militant group Hamas gave material support to terrorists - a move that stunned defense attorneys.
Prosecutors gave no explanation in court and declined to comment
Canada will seek "urgent" talks with the U.S. on information-sharing protocol in the wake of Monday's scathing report on the deportation of Maher Arar, while the RCMP commissioner's job may be in question.
Even in ancient Peru, it seems dogs were a man's best friend. Peruvian investigators have discovered a pre-Columbian culture of dog lovers who built pet cemeteries and buried their pets with warm blankets and even treats for the afterlife.
The US Internet portal Google complied with a court order and posted on its Belgian websites a copyright ruling that went against the giant online information provider.
he leaders of France, Germany and Russia have held summit talks in an elegant chateau with economic issues apparently taking priority over Iran's disputed nuclear programme.
The inspector was on break when agents approached. He was an ex-Marine with 16 years under his belt at U.S. Customs, but Torres allegedly knew him as something else. Her contact. The one she referred to as, "a sure thing."
The military is toughening a new jailhouse for suspected al-Qaida and Taliban militants to protect guards after a spate of attacks and evidence that detainees have organized themselves into groups to mount uprisings, officials said.
The amendment would allow the creation of a citizen's oversight committee or special grand jury which would hear complaints of alleged judicial misconduct against judges. If a judge if found guilty 3 times of having engaged in judical misconduct
For an agency that ordinarily steers clear of major policy debates, the CIA played an unusually prominent role in the showdown between the White House and dissident Republicans over the treatment of detainees. To many outsiders, the CIA position was
A new classified US intelligence report has concluded that the war in Iraq has helped spawn a new wave of Islamic radicalism and made the overal terrorist threat worse, leading US newspapers has reported. The findings in the National Intelligence Es