AFP Video - Unrest, Conflicts & War

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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama held talks with senior US commanders in Iraq on Monday, after vowing to pull out US troops in 16 months if he takes over the White House. Obama made a stopover in Basra, the country's second largest city, at the start of a two-day trip.

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Fear still grips Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar, despite a major offensive against Islamic militants encircling the regional capital.

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Colombian ex-hostage Ingrid Betancourt broke down in tears at a concert she staged in Paris Sunday as part of a day of rallies in Europe and Latin America seeking the release of captives still held by rebels in the Colombian jungle.

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After a flurry of tourist activity in Iraq's relatively stable Kurdish north, it's now business as usual in the region as security clamp-downs and continuing violence force potential visitors to look further afield.

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Samir Kantar, Lebanon's longest serving prisoner released by Israel as part of a swap deal, said on Thursday he had no regrets over the killings for which he was convicted. He received a hero's homecoming.

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The stark sight of two black coffins sparked anguish and tears among relatives of two missing Israeli soldiers on Wednesday -- the first evidence they had that the pair were dead. The two coffins were brought across the Israeli-Lebanese border. Images from AFPTV.

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Hezbollah has handed over two black coffins believed to contain the remains of the Israeli soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev captured two years ago. Israeli army experts began to identify the apparent remains of two abducted soldiers handed over by Hezbollah on Wednesday as part of a prisoner swap.

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Lebanon is preparing a triumphant welcome for its fighters who are set to return home in a prisoner swap with Israel after years behind bars. Early Wednesday, four of the Lebanese prisoners, including Samir Kantar, who received multiple jail terms for a 1979 commando raid, was prepared for release by Israeli soldiers.

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A German prosecutor is in France to investigate a World War II massacre in a probe that could lead to war crimes prosecutions. On the day Paris was liberated, August 25, 1944, German forces killed 124 residents in Maille and left the town in ruins.

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An upsurge in killings, kidnappings and attacks on the strategic NATO re-supply route between Pakistan and Afghanistan over the past year has left at least 100 truck drivers dead.

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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday announced he has received support from Baghdad and Iraqi Kurdish leaders to fight rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) guerrillas inside Iraq.

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Israel's Supreme Court delayed on Tuesday a decision to transfer to the West Bank a Palestinian girl paralysed in an Israeli air raid who must spend the rest of her life on a respirator.

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A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into the Indian embassy in Kabul on Monday, killing 41 people and wounding nearly 150 other in the deadliest attack here since the 2001 fall of the Taliban.

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Colombia's military has shown for the first time a video detailing a daring rescue operation that set free 15 rebel-held hostages, including former Ingrid Betancourt.

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Freed Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt said Friday she owed her life to France as President Nicolas Sarkozy gave her a hero's welcome to Paris, turning the page on her six-year hostage ordeal.

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Newly diagnosed cases of post-traumatic stress disorder surged among US troops who served in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2007, a peak year for US fighting and casualties. Since 2003, more than 39,000 US troops have been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder, according to the military statistics.

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France celebrated Thursday the release of Ingrid Betancourt, whose six-year hostage ordeal in a Colombian jungle turned her into a cause celebre, championed by President Nicolas Sarkozy and grassroots groups.

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It was a daring operation by Colombian special forces that led to the rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages on Wednesday.

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The dramatic rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and fourteen other hostages from FARC rebels on Wednesday prompted scenes of joy in France, where the plight of Betancourt had become a cause celebre.

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French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt and three US nationals were among a group of hostages rescued Wednesday from Marxist FARC rebels in a daring jungle operation, Colombian officials said.

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French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, three US nationals and 11 other hostages were rescued from Marxist FARC rebels Wednesday, freed from years in captivity by a daring Colombian military raid. Images from AFPTV.

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French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt and three US nationals were among a group of hostages rescued Wednesday from Marxist FARC rebels in a daring jungle operation, Colombian officials said.

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Rioters in southwestern China torched government buildings and cars after anger over a probe into a schoolgirl's death exploded into violent protests, locals and state press said Sunday. Images obtained from You Tube show the rioting.

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Thousands of Sudanese refugees are using Egypt as a way station on their way to Israel, but often their wait drags on for months. Over the past year, Egypt has stopped dozens of illegal immigrants, trying to cross into Israel from the Sinai in search of work.