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Government funded programmes like the Multi-sector Skills Training Programme (MuST) have contributed to a decrease in crime said Prime Minister Patrick Manning yesterday.

“A Thousand Splendid Suns” is the closest most of us will get to Afghanistan, unless ordered there by the president. But, by seeing this land through Khaled Hosseini’s eyes, we do learn more about the conflicts in the news.

This week, Lt. Gen. Douglas E. Lute of the Army was named to oversee operations in Iraq and Afghanistan the so-called war czar but is it a title worth having?

Britain’s Serious Organised Crime Agency is helping co-ordinate a developing international investigation into a criminal network thought to have been laundering hundreds of millions of pounds each year from the international drugs trade.

NEW CASTLE - Chappaqua’s war memorial on a circle of grass in front of the train station holds names from the first and second World Wars as well as Vietnam and Korea.

Former Millikan linebacker, 23, earned many medals in Special Forces. A former Millikan High School student who became a decorated Green Beret was killed in action on May 15 near Qalat, Afghanistan, the military said.

The wait continued Tuesday night for the McCallum family. They lived “on pins and needles” waiting for news of their missing daughter, according to a spokesperson for the family.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - In a powerful demonstration of the way the Internet has opened up the mainstream media to intensive second-guessing, bloggers are charging that news outlets have ignored the rape and…

Outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair defends his decision to support the United States in the invasion of Iraq in an exclusive interview with NPR News. He adds that he believes the only way terrorism can be defeated is “not through force of arms, but through the force of ideas.”

Descendents of troops who fought in America’s wars dating back to the Revolutionary War will join about 3,000 family members of troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan on Sunday in a tribute to those who have died in service to their country.