Afghanistan
BAKU, Azerbaijan - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates tried on Sunday to soothe the put-off president of this former Soviet republic that helps move supplies and soldiers to the U.S.-led war in landlocked Afghanistan.
LONDON - A British soldier who refused to serve in Afghanistan and spoke out against the war has been sentenced to nine months in jail.
WASHINGTON - The government on Friday released a long-secret list of some 645 detainees held at a military base in Afghanistan, providing the information as part of a lawsuit seeking details of the treatment of terror suspects.
BEIJING - She joins the crush of Chinese petitioners outside the high, well-guarded gates on cold Beijing mornings.
WASHINGTON - A Houston couple has pleaded guilty in an alleged plot to defraud the U.S.
