Senate Democrats refused to flinch today as the chamber moved towards a rare, all-night session of debate on legislation to bring US troops home later this year.

US military commanders are re-evaluating strategy in Iraq to determine what changes are needed, the top general said.

President George Bush today said fresh threats by North Korea in the nuclear test row are designed to test the will of the five countries that are working to achieve a political settlement.

The resurgent Taliban militia are a tactical problem for the US-led coalition but cannot not take over Afghanistan again, a top US general said, as the US-led coalition today reported that two of its soldiers were wounded in the volatile south.

Two US Marines were severely traumatised after following orders to photograph corpses of unarmed Iraqi civilians allegedly killed by members of their unit, their families said today.

AMERICA’S top-ranking military commander said yesterday “it would be premature for me to judge” the outcome of a Pentagon investigation into the killing of as many as a dozen Iraqi civilians by marines.

Britain and Russia have formed a working group to combat global terror, Prime Minister Blair announced tonight.

US fighter jets today killed many Afghans driving in convoy in the Tora Bora region.

A top defence official says Osama bin Laden could be dead.

American forces were today searching for Osama bin Laden with a hit-list of cave networks in Afghanistan where the terrorist leader may be hiding.