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Zainab Alhusni, the young woman reportedly slain and mutilated while in Syrian custody, appears to be very much alive.

The United States believes NATO has accomplished its mission in Libya, but the formal decision to end air attacks and other operations is still in the future, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday.

International leaders in politics and business are paying tribute Thursday to Apple visionary Steve Jobs, whose death at age 56 has saddened many around the world.

Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer won the Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish academy that announces the annual award said Thursday.

A lot has changed, but 10 years after the Afghanistan war began, many issues still plague the country. What's the one most important issue? 5 voices weigh in.

Iraqi human rights activist Hanaa Edwar stormed into a televised government conference and harangued Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki. She continues to fight for dream of a democratic Iraq.

(CNN) — Steve Jobs, the visionary in the black turtleneck who co-founded Apple in a Silicon Valley garage, built it into the world's leading tech company and led a mobile-computing revolution with wildly popular devices such as the iPhone, died W…

Pakistan needs to do more to implement safeguards that would control a fertilizer that is being used in explosive devices in Afghanistan, according to an American lawmaker who recently visited the country.

China said on Wednesday the U.N. Security Council resolution it vetoed would not have helped "ease Syria's situation."

The largest case of bank fraud in Iranian history is threatening to engulf President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after a parliamentary commission decided to investigate his office for possible connections to the crime, Iranian state media has reported.