Gen. David H. Petraeus is now responsible for overseeing a strategic crescent that includes Afghanistan, where violence has increased markedly since last year.

A high-ranking Japanese military official was dismissed Friday for stating that the U.S. had ensnared Japan into World War II.

Regulators announced the move amid growing signs that an industrial chemical called melamine had leached into the nation’s animal feed supplies.

Gen. David H. Petraeus is now responsible for overseeing a strategic crescent that includes Afghanistan, where violence has increased markedly since last year.

While the tense truce held in Goma, the U.N. said it had received “disturbing” reports from refugee camps.

Tens of thousands of displaced people began returning to Goma as talks with the rebel movement continued.

Tempelhof, although built by the Nazis, is best known as the site of the Berlin airlift of 1948 and 1949, after the Soviets blocked land access to the city.

According to witnesses and the police, at least nine blasts rocked four towns in the troubled state of Assam, which has been riven by a separatist insurgency.

During the past few weeks, several prominent defectors from the African National Congress have been fomenting political rebellion.

Taking advantage of the pause in violence, the Hamas leaders have turned to matchmaking, bringing together single fighters and widows.