There will be some happy Canadians in 2011 when Canada withdraws from the conflict in Afghanistan, and there will be other Canadians regretting the action.

A judge in a court in Milan, Northern Italy has convicted 23 Americans, 22 of them CIA agents, of kidnapping a Muslim cleric in a street in the city in 2003.

Five British soldiers were shot dead by an Afghan police officer on Tuesday afternoon as they rested inside a compound in Helmand Province where they had been living for the past two weeks and acting as mentors to the gunman and his colleagues.

A year ago on DigitalJournal.com, a number of people covered the U.S. election in a live international blog. Now, the results are coming in from Obama's first year as President of the United States. The culture has changed, and so has the world.

In what is being hailed as a historic moment, German Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed both houses of the U.S. Congress on Tuesday, speaking on such subjects as Iran and Afghanistan, and appealing for U.S. cooperation in fighting climate change.

In March of 2009, Roxana Saberi's name became synonymous with press freedom after being arrested in Iran and held in Evin prison. New information is surfacing in the case of Roxana Saberi vs Iran, including familial ties to US Military Intelligence.

Abdullah Abdullah, the main challenger to Hamid Karzai for the presidency of Afghanistan, has announced that he is withdrawing from the second round of voting due to be held on November 7 in what has become a widely discredited election.

Research conducted by psychiatrists in Britain has revealed that members of the country's armed forces returning from duty in Iraq and Afghanistan commonly suffer from depression, with many turning to alcohol for relief.

The United States is set to pay off Afghan members who are part of the Taliban organization to switch sides, which adds to $1.3 billion under a new $680 billion defense appropriations bill.

In the predawn darkness, the President of the United States of America saluted 18 fallen soldiers from the war in Afghanistan Thursday. Obama watched the caskets each one draped with the American flag as they came off the cargo plane.