Afghan President Hamid Karzai sharply criticized U.S. and British handling of the war in Afghanistan.

A U.S. Army soldier alleges in a federal lawsuit filed in Kansas that his atheism prompted threats from an officer, court records show.

U.S. investigators are looking into the role of Wachovia Corp. in an alleged money laundering scheme involving Mexican and Colombian drug money, officials said.

An accident caused the oil pipeline fire in southern Baghdad this week that left eight Iraqis injured, the U.S. Army said Saturday.

A gun battle in the streets of Tijuana, Mexico, left as many as 15 members of rival drug gangs dead and eight wounded, authorities said Saturday.

A U.S. judge is to hear arguments a detainee held at Guantanamo Bay cannot adequately prepare for his defense because of his mental health, lawyers said.

U.S. forces have killed a leading al-Qaida commander and three of his lieutenants in an airstrike, an Iraqi police official said Saturday.

Appeals court upheld wrongful-death ruling in wife's death, but cut it in half.

They think that another man was killed and that Abraham Lincon's assassin lived to a ripe old age.

The International Monetary Fund will work with the Haitian government and donors to relieve the food crisis in Haiti, the mission chief for Haiti said Friday.

The Pentagon has dropped its practice of having the defense secretary brief retired military officers who work as TV news analysts, officials said Friday.

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Friday the United States is planning for potential military courses of action against Iran.

An unnamed Iranian official dismissed reports Friday that a U.S. Navy vessel fired at an Iranian patrol boat in the Persian Gulf.