One path to peace is in the message and who delivers it. That idea sank in for 1st Lt. Carter Langston, a Rock Hill native stationed in Afghanistan, when he learned that an American pastor and about 30 spectators had burned a Quran in Florida.In a country where anti-American sentiment already runs high, a few angry leaders in Afghanistan urged people to avenge the insult. The result was the deaths...

The next leader of North Korea from the only ruling family the isolated nation has ever known made his public debut Sunday, clapping and smiling as tanks and long-range missiles rolled past in what was said to be the largest military parade staged by the communist state.Two weeks after he was made a four-star general and set on the path to succession, Kim Jong Un sat next to his father, current No...

As dawn broke over this dusty border town, hundreds of people waded across the knee-deep Masak River into the Dominican Republic — carrying bundles of live chickens and sacks of clothing — as they dodged border guards waving them back onto the crowded international bridge.It’s a chaotic scene that plays out every Monday and Friday as the two nations open their borders to exchange...