War_Conflict
Latest Stories

Philippines Communist_Lea.jpg
Communist New People's Army militants march in unison past local residents and supporters during the celebration of the 42nd anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines on Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010, on Mount Diwata in the southern Philippines. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)

Afghanistan_Lea.jpg
Gen. David H. Petraeus (left), top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, greets U.S. Marines during a visit to Marjah, Afghanistan, on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. Gen. Petraeus crisscrossed Afghanistan on Saturday to visit coalition troops on Christmas at some of the main battle fronts in a show of appreciation and support in the 10th year of the war against the Taliban. (AP Photo/Elena Becatoros)

Philippines Explosion_Lea.jpg
Philippine National Police investigators inspect the damage at the Sacred Heart Catholic Chapel following an explosion during a Christmas Day Mass on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010, on the volatile island of Jolo, Sulu province, in the southern Philippines. (AP Photo/Nickee Butlangan)

Iraq_Lea(2).jpg
Pictures of slain Iraqi Christians are displayed during Christmas Mass at Our Lady of Salvation Church in Baghdad on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. Iraqi Christians are marking a somber holiday in the face of repeated violence by militants intent on driving their beleaguered community from Iraq. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Pakistan_Lea.jpg
Victims injured in a suicide bombing are treated at Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. A woman detonated an explosives-laden vest in a crowded aid distribution center in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 45 people and wounding dozens waiting for food stamps, officials said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

INDIA1.jpg
Indian police officials frisk pedestrians outside the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai, India, on Friday, Dec. 24, 2010. Police searched India's financial capital on Friday for four men who authorities believe entered Mumbai to carry out a terrorist attack, a top police official said. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade).

INDIA.jpg
** FILE ** A man pays homage in front of portraits of police officers killed in the Mumbai terror attack outside the Taj Mahal Palace hotel, one of the sites of the attack, on the second anniversary of the attack in Mumbai, India, on Friday, Nov. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

20101223-193847-pic-657146624.jpg
Associated Press photographs Demonstrators clash with soldiers Thursday outside the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas. Students protested against a law that increases government powers over the country's universities.

20101223-193847-pic-411832279.jpg
A university student shouts at national guard soldiers outside the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas. Police and soldiers fired water cannons and plastic bullets in a bid to quell the demonstrations.

Italy Embassy Blast_Lea-3.jpg
Police officers and a firefighter stand outside the Chilean Embassy in Rome on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010, after a pair of package bombs exploded at the Swiss and Chilean embassies, injuring the two people who opened them, officials said. Police ordered checks at all embassies after a false alarm also was reported at the Ukrainian Embassy. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Italy Embassy Blast_Lea.jpg
A Carabinieri paramilitary police officer rings the bell at the entrance of the Swiss Embassy in Rome on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010, where a package exploded and wounded an embassy staffer, police said. (AP Photo/Angelo Carconi)

20101222-215101-pic-438689929.jpg
White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan assured the press that the federal government "is doing everything to prevent terrorists from carrying out cowardly attacks."

20101222-215101-pic-243807829.jpg
** FILE ** Security lines grow at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport during the 2010 Christmas season. (Associated Press)

20101222-200411-pic-866015865.jpg
White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan assured the press that the federal government "is doing everything to prevent terrorists from carrying out cowardly attacks."

20101222-195056-pic-592110604.jpg
South Korean border guards patrol the fence near the border village of Panmunjom on Wednesday as the South Korean air force and army prepare for massive drills.

Mideast Israel Palest_Lea.jpg
** FILE ** Israeli soldiers in southern Israel near the Israel-Gaza border examine a crater created by a rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Mideast Israel Palest_Lea.jpg
** FILE ** Israeli soldiers in southern Israel near the Israel-Gaza border examine a crater created by a rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

IRAQ.jpg
People walk past a street vendor selling Christmas decorations in downtown Baghdad, Iraq, on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010. Church officials in Iraq say they have canceled some Christmas festivities in two northern cities over fears of insurgent attacks. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

MOSCOW.jpg
** FILE ** Riot police officers search a man at a square outside the Kievsky train station, amid fears of a repeat of Saturday's clashes, in Moscow on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

Afghanistan_Lea.jpg
Afghan policemen stand near a damaged car after a blast in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010. NATO said a service member was killed in the blast, while three boys -- ages 10, 11 and 12 -- died in an explosion on the city's outskirts, according to Khan Mohammad Mujhid, the police chief in Kandahar province. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)