Army Private Bradley Manning represents a Rorschach tests for many Americans. The Army arrested the 24-year-old two years ago after classified material he allegedly downloaded from a military intelligence network while serving in Iraq ended up being made public by WikiLeaks. His supporters laud him for exposing war-crime atrocities, while critics label him a traitor. ...

PARIS (Reuters) - A third opinion poll in two weeks showed a rise in French President Nicolas Sarkozy's tepid popularity ratings, with his score up two points at the start of June to 34 percent in an Ifop survey published Tuesday. ...

The father of an American soldier who was captured by the Taliban nearly two years ago has made a heartbreaking plea to his captors in the hope that they will release his son. ...

Video of explosions in Abidjan, the Ivorian commercial capital, on Monday, uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday. As my colleagues Adam Nossiter and David Goodman report, The French government said Tuesday that it was negotiating the surrender of Ivory Coast's strongman, Laurent Gbagbo, a day after the United Nations and France struck targets at his residence, ...

With that in mind, what was the "Third Palestinian Intifada" page about? To begin with, "Intifada" is an Arabic word for popular uprising or resistance. The First Intifada was an organized violent Arab uprising against Israel between 1987 and 1993. Seven years later, the Second Intifada claimed the lives of more than 6,000 Palestinians and ...

PARIS, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Britain and France have curtailed arms sales to Bahrain in the wake of government crackdowns on mass protests and France has also suspended sales to Libya. ...

KABUL, Afghanistan - Roadside bombs and an insurgent attack claimed the lives of five coalition troops today, NATO said, while the Taliban took aim at the Afghan intelligence services, killing four people and wounding more than 30 in a pair of attacks, officials said. ...

WASHINGTON -- Foreign powers are pulling back from their dealings with the U.S. government since hundreds of classified diplomatic cables wound up on the Internet, State and Defense department officials said Tuesday. ...

TEL HASHOMER, Israel Since Israel's founding, the military has served not just as a defender against outside threats, but as the glue that brings together a patchwork nation of immigrants. ...

Nov. 23, 2010 (United Press International) -- Today is Monday, Nov. 29, the 333rd day of 2010 with 32 to follow. The moon is waning. The morning star is Venus. The evening stars are Mercury, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars. ...