MANILA (AP)—A Jordanian journalist has identified the leader of an Al-Qaida-linked terrorist group that held him for a year and a half in the jungles of the southern Philippines after luring him wi...

RANONG, Thailand (Reuters)—One afternoon in October, in the watery no-man’s land between Thailand and Myanmar, Muhammad Ismail vanished. Thai immigration officials said he was being deported to...

The government must take every step it can regarding economic management to prevent the national economy from losing steam due to the consumption tax increase set for April. The government has deci...

China must take seriously the explicit declarations by Japan and the United States of their intentions regarding Beijing’s announcement of its new air defense identification zone. U.S. Vice Pre...

WASHINGTON—As Al-Qaida grows more powerful in Syria—seeking “complete control over the liberated areas,” according to a new Syrian rebel intelligence report—moderate opposition leaders are v...

Regrettably, the only outside power that could guide the explosive situation in the Ukraine to a positive and nonviolent conclusion is the disunited and distracted European Union. The sudden refusal...

WASHINGTON—In the years following 9/11, as the White House accelerated efforts to strike back at Al-Qaida, the CIA detained two high-ranking Al-Qaida operatives, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Abu Zuba...

CHICAGO (AP)—The way everything was crumbling, the Chicago Bulls sure needed a reprieve. Knocking off the defending champions was a nice one. Carlos Boozer scored 27 points, and the Bulls pounded L...

UNITED NATIONS (AP)—UNICEF says it is alarmed about increasing HIV and AIDS rates among adolescents over the last seven years and is advocating an aggressive program that includes condom distributi...

WASHINGTON (AP)—An experimental device is letting paralyzed people drive wheelchairs simply by flicking their tongue in the right direction. Key to this wireless system: Users get their tongue pi...