Scottsdale Community College will offer language courses in Arabic for the first time this fall, despite low enrollment numbers at the start of the semester.

Scottsdale Community College will offer language courses in Arabic for the first time this fall, despite low enrollment numbers at the start of the semester.

Registration for the spring 2012 semester is going on at Chandler-Gilbert Community College. This spring, CGCC is offering new humanities and music classes for students to choose from.

Very few Americans appreciate either what is at stake in Palestine or what problems remain to be solved. We just aren't interested.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A string of attacks killed 19 people, including two relatives of a senior Kurdish official, and Vice President Dick Cheney made a surprise visit Sunday in which he suggested that Iraq's recent elections were a major step toward withdrawing U.S. troops.

Tina Dupuy

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi state television on Monday showed two men said to have been the U.S. crew of an Apache helicopter forced down during heavy fighting in central Iraq.

BAGHDAD - Concern over upcoming elections and widening tensions among Iraq's religious and ethnic groups appear behind the U.S. military's recommendation to put the brakes on withdrawing more American troops from Iraq despite improvements in security.

It's tempting to think that if we just elect the right people next week, the clouds will part, the sun will break through and everything will be fine again. But it's not that simple. Whoever is president the next four years will face daunting problems. We've dug some big holes for ourselves.

The next provost of Arizona State University Polytechnic in Mesa will be either a retired high ranking U.S. Air Force pilot, a celebrated chemist or a software consultant whose company taught people to use one of the earliest computer programming languages.

February 23, 2005

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Wearing a green Islamic head scarf, American reporter Jill Carroll walked into an Iraqi political party office Thursday, set free nearly three months after being kidnapped in an ambush that killed her translator.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sunni Arab opposition to Iraq's draft constitution has increased the potential for instability and called into question U.S. hopes for substantial troop cuts next spring, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said Friday.

Alice Sliger spent most of her 103 years amassing a priceless collection of Western art and iconic baseball memorabilia from players who wintered in her Buckhorn Baths resort in Mesa.

You can’t really blame local TV weather forecasters for playing up the Arizona monsoon.

You can’t really blame local TV weather forecasters for playing up the Arizona monsoon.

MOSUL, Iraq - It's not a pretty sight: Sagging skeletons of two- and three-story buildings under a threatening gray sky. Abandoned shops with corrugated iron fronts riddled by bullet holes. And amid the garbage heaps and pools of fetid rainwater, a roadside bomb set to explode.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A Shiite negotiator reported progress Friday in constitutional talks with the Sunni Arabs and Kurds on federalism but problems on the proposal to ban members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party from public life.

Susan Stamper Brown

In those days before kids, I was fast asleep when the phone by my bed rang at about half past six in the morning. It was my father calling. Planes had flown into the World Trade Center. America was being attacked. I knocked on the door of my guest bedroom to awaken a visiting friend. Together, thousands of miles from New York and Washington, we experienced the day - the fall of one tower and then the other, the attack on the Pentagon, the confusion, the rumors, the terror - the way most Americans did: watching television in stunned silence. It's not just that we all still remember where we were when we heard; it's that at that very moment we knew we would always remember.

DAHAB, Egypt - Police arrested three people Tuesday in the triple bomb attack that ripped apart a Sinai beach resort promenade at the height of Egypt's tourist season, killing at least 24 people and injuring more than 60, many of them foreigners.

HADITHA, Iraq - U.S. troops pushed through streets sown with bombs Tuesday in their biggest operation this year in western Iraq, seeking to retake three Euphrates River towns from al-Qaida insurgents. At least five U.S. service members have been killed in the fighting.

HAQLANIYAH, Iraq - Some 2,500 U.S. troops along with Iraqi forces launched their second major offensive in western Iraq in a week Tuesday, sweeping into three towns to take them back from insurgents who had killed Marines there last month.