Six days of war, 40 years of failure
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This week in 1967 Israel defeated its neighbours in a war which lasted six days - but whose consequences have reverberated for 40 years
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Forty-four separate incidents are graphically recounted in the new Army report on abuse committed by U.S. soldiers against Iraqis in their custody at the Abu Ghraib prison.
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Sixty years ago this weekend, Warsaw's wartime agony ended. But for Janusz Zadarnowski of Creve Coeur, the adventure had a long way to run.
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This week's remembrances of the Six-Day War 40 years ago expose political divisions in Israeli society.
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A close-up chronicle of the most sustained period of street-to-street fighting that the U.S. has encountered since Vietnam.
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It was a day of jubilation &#151; World War II seemed almost over. But before night fell, joy gave way to terror.
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Israel's Six Day War offered American Jews a refuge from the social traumas of the 1960s. How the conflict reshaped the community.
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On his first day as defense secretary, Robert Gates warned Monday that failure in Iraq would be a "calamity" that would haunt the United States for years. Underscoring eroding security there, a Pentagon report said the number of insurgent and sectarian attacks had risen to the highest level in years.
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Only five came back home alive. "There were six Sacco boys in the service, and we all served in World War II at the same time," Tony Sacco said Wednesday.
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A 34-day war didn't work. Now Prime Minister Olmert must negotiate for the release of the two soldiers in Lebanon and a third in Gaza. The  price may be steep
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Thirty-one U.S. troops died in a  helicopter crash in Iraq and five more were killed in insurgent  attacks Wednesday, the deadliest day for American forces since  they invaded the country 22 months ago.
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Omanson was drafted six weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He was a machine gunnist as a member of the 45th Divison.
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Episode 40 Infamy, infamy, they've all got it...
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Though the casualties are mounting, the alliance's new military offensive may have learned from its predecessors' mistakes
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DAKAR, Senegal -- Six years of continuing conflict in Congo have claimed 3.8 million lives, half of them children, with most killed by disease and famine in the still largely cutoff east, according to an International Rescue Committee study that estimates the toll.
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Hundreds of soldiers being denied vital help to cope with the psychological fallout of war
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Every day, five U.S. soldiers try to kill themselves. Before the Iraq war began, that figure was less than one  attempt a day. The dramatic increase is revealed in new U.S. Army figures.