Globally, war has killed three times more people than previously estimated, and there is no evidence to support claims of a recent decline in war deaths, concludes a study published on BMJ.com.

UN experts warn: long-standing conflicts set off by higher food prices are in store for the world.

Syria is beefing up security on its home front in a sign of escalating tension with Israel.

It is not war that Americans hate, but, rather, unsuccessful wars, according to a new book by two New York University professors. In Selling War to America: From the Sinking of the Maine to the Global War on Terror (Praeger, Sept. 2007), co-authors Eugene Secunda and Terence P. Moran conclude that this success is often determined by how wars are sold.

A reporter embeds with the Taleban to see the brutal evidence of war in Greshk.