Mexican Interior Secretary Francisco Blake Mora – a key figure in the war against drug cartels – has died in a helicopter crash as he travelled to a meeting.

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Mexico minister dies in air crash

The latest instalment in the war series goes on sale following sackings and resignations at developer Infinity Ward.

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Gamers await Modern Warfare 3

An unidentified attacker on Tuesday killed former President Burhanuddin Rabbani, the leader of Afghanistan’s High Peace Council, whose main responsibility was negotiating a political end to the war with the Taliban.

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Afghan Peace Council Chief Killed in Attack on His Home

Owing to what U.S. officials are calling “strategic considerations”-namely, the rising cost of the war and the death of Osama bin Laden-President Obama’s national-security team is contemplating even steeper troop reductions in Afghanistan than those…

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Obama Weighs Faster Afghan Exit

Serbian officials vowed to track down those who helped hide Ratko Mladic, but their prime interest now is to get him packed off to the war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

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War Crimes Suspect Could Be Extradited Tuesday

The lawyer for Ratko Mladic said on Friday he would fight the effort to send him to the war crimes tribunal.

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Serbian Court Backs Transfer of Mladic to Hague

Exam boards unveil a new weapon in the war against cheating in examinations.

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New weapon against exam cheating

As the war in Libya persists with no clear end in sight, the United Nations’ envoy to the the country will try to negotiate a cease-fire between ruler Moammar Gadhafi’s forces and rebel fighters on Sunday.

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UN envoy holds Libyan cease-fire talks

The Taliban insurgency has gained strength in Pakistan’s border regions with Afghanistan in recent months despite a sustained government offensive against it, the Obama administration said in a bracing new assessment of the war effort.

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Taliban has strengthened along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, report finds

The final day of hearings at the war crimes trial of Liberia’s ex-President Charles Taylor starts at a UN court for Sierra Leone in The Hague.

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Taylor’s war crimes trial to end

The lawyer for Liberia’s ex-President Charles Taylor says the prosecution has turned the war crimes trial into a “21st Century form of neo-colonialism”.

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Taylor’s trial ‘neo-colonialist’

In 2010 there was a 15 percent increase in civilian casualties over 2009, which made it the most lethal of the war for noncombatants.

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U.N. Calls for Better Protection of Afghan Civilians

Mr. Buckles was the last living link to the two million men who served in the American Expeditionary Forces in France in “the war to end all wars.”

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Frank Buckles, Last World War I Doughboy, Is Dead at 110

At stake in the war over the federal budget is more than $75 million for Planned Parenthood, money that opponents say frees up funds for abortions.

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Planned Parenthood Funding Is Caught in Budget Feud

So was Bill O’Reilly right to hype his interview with President Obama so much? In the second part of the sit-down, which will air Monday night on Fox News, Obama says he is confident that the U.S. will win the war in Afghanistan and the Taliban will…

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Obama: ‘We Will Defeat al Qaeda’