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The bullet burrowed down, just past Kelley McCullough's windpipe and carotid artery. It fractured the DEA agent's collarbone and ripped a thumb-sized exit wound through his armpit. He lay face-down […]

For kidnapping and robbing DEA agent Charlie Martinez, then shooting him in the hip and through the chest, Rene Benitez served three years and 10 months in a Colombian prison. […]

In the first hours of his last day of temporary duty in Colombia, DEA Special Agent Charlie Martinez was shot straight through the chest. The bullet tore a hole just […]

PHILADELPHIA _ The ongoing showdown between police and protesters shifted from the streets to the courts Wednesday, with 279 demonstrators arrested during Tuesday's rampage in Center City awaiting arraignment as […]

PHILADELPHIA _ Pier 34 on the Delaware River was built as a "finger pier," a 250-foot behemoth designed for the loading of Pennsylvania coal onto ships from what was once […]

Trung Luong was a remote hamlet folded into a fertile valley in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, not far from the South China Sea. None of the young American soldiers […]

GROZNY, Russia _ This city, left for dead by the Russian army, still has life. There is a pulse here, faint but steady. It beats at the Fall Cafe, where […]

VEDENO, Russia _ The soldiers came in a rush to the small stone house of Gilani Dudayev. They left with everything the old man owned. 'Look, they even took the […]

reason to hope. Craig Cuny let himself believe that his father, missing American relief worker Fred Cuny, was alive and trying to contact him. A letter had surfaced one day […]

Copyright 1995, The Philadelphia Inquirer BENOI, Russia _ On a dirt track high in the Caucasus Mountains, along plunging gorges that split Chechnya from Dagestan, there is a cramped and […]

EL RENO, Okla. _ Terry Lynn Nichols strolled calmly into a prison hearing room here Thursday morning, uncuffed and unshackled, chatting softly with his lawyers. Two hours later, he stared […]

Federal authorities tightened their web of evidence against Terry Lynn Nichols Thursday, saying they had found bomb-making materials similar to those used in the Oklahoma City explosion at the home […]

Terry Lynn Nichols, the peripatetic Army buddy and military surplus-sales partner of Timothy McVeigh, was charged Wednesday with helping McVeigh plan and detonate the deadliest domestic terrorist bombing in U.S. […]

SERNOVODSK, Russia _ Yazid came home in silence, like a thief. He emerged from the back seat of a car and stole through the gate of his mother's red brick […]

ZNAMENSKOYE, Russia _ Inside a dilapidated three-story building with no heat or electricity, the Russian military has set up a puppet government ruled by enemies of Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev. […]

MOZDOK, Russia _ They emerged from the roadside brush Friday, three filthy, ragged men with bruised faces and broken ribs. They begged a stranger for a ride away from the […]

TOLSTOY-YURT, Russia _ From the mud flats outside this sodden northern suburb of Grozny, the big guns shake the earth. The air seems to split and crack as 152mm Russian […]

NAZRAN, Russia _ Lyuda Kostenko was setting up a new home Monday inside a cold railroad car. She was bereft of her house and belongings, but so grateful to be […]

BAMUT, Russia _ Peering over the top of his chicken coop, Khalmur Novruzov could see the bombs hit. Orange flashes rose up in a mountain ravine a mile away, followed […]

GROZNY, Russia _ A legless old man sat on the cold floor of the Grozny Home for the Elderly and Disabled, his shabby clothes stained dark by his own urine. […]

KATYR-YURT, Russia _ While all of Katyr-Yurt slept under a blanket of fresh snow Tuesday morning, the war for Chechnya came to the village. A Russian warplane attacked just before […]

When it comes to violence, the explanation may lie in place, not race. Living in areas of concentrated, segregated poverty is likely to breed violence in any group of people. […]

'The land is full of bloody crime and the city is full of violence.' _ Ezekiel 7:23. Across the land, waves of violence seem to crest and break, terrorizing Americans […]

After kidnapping an Israeli soldier last week, the Islamic militants who call themselves Hamas handed out leaflets in the Gaza Strip explaining the abduction: 'Bold military operations will not cease […]

As the Persian Gulf War roared to a climax in February 1991, American forces had Saddam Hussein's best fighting units in their sights _ and President Bush decided to let […]

PHILADELPHIA _ A congressional report on the disputed suicides of seven servicemen has found that the Navy made errors and took 'unprofessional actions,' treated survivors with disdain while improperly denying […]

Late at night, long after he had consumed his nightly room-service dinner, Lawrence E. Walsh would crouch over a hotel desk near midnight, poring over Iran-Contra documents, still wearing his […]

On a late winter evening in March of 1992, military policeman Chad Langford radioed the security center at a sprawling Army arsenal in Alabama that he was stopping to assist […]

The Senate passed a bill Wednesday requiring the Defense Department to review procedures for investigating suicides or other self-inflicted deaths in the military. The measure also creates a mechanism for […]

BEIRUT, Lebanon _ In Beirut, a city of survivors, no one survives like Fuad Saleh. During Lebanon's 15-year civil war, Fuad ran the Commodore Hotel, the seedy bunkroom of the […]

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. _ Authorities investigating the murder of James Jordan said Saturday that they had suspects in a killing they characterized as 'a spur-of-the-moment' robbery or other crime and not […]

BAALBEK, Lebanon _ To find Hussein Moussawi _ the man who leads Hezbollah, who stands accused of kidnapping Westerners, whose aquiline face is described by his enemies as the face […]