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Suicide attackers in a truck launched an assault Tuesday on a luxury hotel commonly used by foreigners in Peshawar, Pakistan, firing guns as they stormed past guards and then setting off a huge blast that killed at least five people and wounded 65 more, officials said.

North Korea convicted two American journalists and sentenced them Monday to 12 years of hard labor, intensifying the reclusive nation's confrontation with the United States. Washington said it would "engage in all possible channels" to win the release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee.

Late last week, North Korea detonated a nuclear device, which led to a swift condemnation from the United States and the U.N. Security Council. Since then, the tensions between North Korea and the international community have increased.

U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke visited camps in Pakistan for those displaced by the government's offensive against the Taliban in the Swat Valley. Some 3 million Pakistanis have fled the war zone. Holbrooke expressed sympathy to those displaced by the fighting.

Calling across a chasm that has opened wider in the years following the Sept. 11 attacks, President Obama spoke Thursday about U.S. relations with the Muslim world. He hopes to "start a dialogue" to repair tattered U.S. ties with the globe's 1.5 billion followers of Islam.

Pledging "to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims," President Obama reached out to the world's 1.5 billion followers of Islam Thursday, addressing an appreciative crowd at Cairo University.

In Afghanistan's volatile Wardak province, U.S. Special Forces are setting up a neighborhood watch program with local recruits that officials hope will help drive out Taliban extremists and other militants. But critics say it doesn't address the real problem: the disconnect between Afghans and their government.

President Obama will try to reach out to the Muslim world this week through a speech in Cairo. Administration officials are highlighting Egypt's position as a strategic ally of the United States, but one analyst says the choice of location was more a process of elimination.

U.S. officials say there are new signs North Korea may be planning even more missile launches in a show of strength following worldwide condemnation of its underground nuclear test. The North fired a short-range missile on Friday — the sixth this week.

Should terror detainees be moved from the prison at Guantanamo Bay to sites throughout the U.S., like the brigs at Camp Pendleton and the Miramar Marine Corps Air Station? We speak to Congressman Brian Bilbray about the proposal to move the terror suspects. We also speak to Bilbray about border violence, the economy, and healthcare reform.