KABUL (AP) — Helicopter crashes killed 14 Americans on Monday in the deadliest day for the U.S. mission in Afghanistan in more than four years. The deaths came as President Barack Obama prepared to meet his national security team for ...

BAGHDAD Death squads roamed the streets, slaughtering members of the rival Muslim sect. Bombs rocked Baghdad daily until thousands of U.S. troops poured in two years ago, establishing neighborhood bases and taking control of the Iraqi capital and other cities.

... commander of all U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said any decision would be based on being able to continue the U.S. mission and not give up security gains. In 2006, U.S. forces attempted to hand over security in portions of Iraq to security ...

... Catholic Church. The pope, in white robes embroidered with red crosses, used his homily as something of a coda for his U.S. mission, sounding again the themes of renewal in Christ, the importance to the church and the need for unity. He made the ...

... Foreign Relations who has advised Petraeus on war strategy. Biddle is not ready to say it's over, but he sees the U.S. mission shifting from fighting the insurgents to keeping the peace. Although Sunni and Shiite extremists are still around ...

... S. troops home. Last month, however, he and al-Maliki agreed to set a "general time horizon" for ending the U.S. mission. Bush's shift to a broad timeline was seen as a move to speed agreement on the security pact. Talks were supposed ...

... reason for the move was unclear. State Department spokesman James P. Rubin said last week that Cuba had asked the U.S. mission in Havana on Nov. 27 for the child's return. But the case was referred to the Florida state courts because they ...

... States will never let Kuwait down." Powell, who was chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff, described the U.S. mission as one of combatting evil. "We want the world to know our quarrel is not with the people of Iraq. It is with the ...

... very valuable, very important," an officer on the Georgian general staff, Col. George Giorgobiani, said of the U.S. mission. "All the experience of the American military schools will be brought here." The Pentagon has said the training ...

... boards of American Indian College, Teen Challenge of Arkansas and Hillcrest Children's Home. He also serves on the U.S. Missions Board and the board of the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary. Garrison and his wife, Johanna, have one daughter ...