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As the fight in southern Afghanistan winds down, the toughest challenge for U.S. and Afghan forces is in the east — an area one captain likens to the American West in the 1800s. There, they are battling a Taliban offshoot called the Haqqani network.

In the Mbirikaini region of Kenya, the lion population is dangerously low. So researchers with Living With Lions have started a lion guardian program that empowers locals to manage the population and resolve disputes over the animals.

Regional menu items — like fish, egg tarts and preserved egg porridge — are making KFC a huge hit in China as executives at the fast-food chicken giant look overseas for better revenues. Sales in China grew 12 percent in this first part of the year, compared with 3 percent in the U.S.

Kenya is getting back to business after two months of ethnic bloodletting kicked off by a contested presidential election. While the political combatants have figured out a way to work together, Kenyans are struggling to put the internecine clashes behind them.

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez angers and annoys a lot of people with his confrontational style. He often attacks the United States in general, and President Bush in particular. Author Bart Jones talks about his new biography on Hugo Chavez entitled, Hugo! and examines the politics of the controversial Venezuelan leader.

Thousands of people lined up for the spectacle of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York, while merrymakers gathered for massive parades in Philadelphia (above) and in other cities nationwide. President Obama phoned U.S. troops, and the space shuttle crew got a surprise feast.

The author visited Afghanistan's Korengal Valley five times in 2007 and 2008 as a reporter embedded with part of the U.S. Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade as it attempted to thwart the Taliban in rough mountain terrain.

McGonigle Canyon is home to hundreds of migrants who live there illegally. Captain Boyd Long with the SDPD’s Northern Division talks about the ongoing issue of migrant camps in the canyons of suburb

When a roadside bomb last week destroyed an American armored vehicle in southern Afghanistan, it was an all-too-familiar scene for the soldiers of 2nd Platoon — an explosion, a firefight, a Medevac helicopter and a prayer. The Army platoon, part of the 5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, has lost 11 soldiers, about one-third of the force.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton toured an African refugee camp crowded with victims of violence and malnutrition Tuesday, pledging $17 million in American aid to help stem the tide of rampant sexual abuse that has staggered war-ravaged eastern Congo.