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June 5, 2014 7:36 AM EDT Behind the Scenes of Bowe Bergdahls Release A Taliban commander close to the negotiations over the release of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl told TIME Thursday that the deal made to secure Bergdahls release has made it more appealing for fighters to capture American soldiers and other high-value targets.

When Taylor Swift announced the release of her highly anticipated tenth album, Midnights, in August, she called it the story of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life. The songs, written during those wee hours in the night when Swift should have been asleep, resulted in a collection that she says is a journey through

Only 45 minutes out of Miami by jet, the Bahama Islands have long been one of the favorite playgrounds of Americans. Composed of 700 islands that are washed by the warm waters of the Gulf Stream, the Bahamas have a population of only 140,000 people, 85% of them Negro. Yet for many years the islands

A video still showing Islamist militants destroying an ancient shrine in Timbuktu, Mali, on July 1, 2012 It was a singular, defining act of barbarism, beamed out live for the world to see. In March 2001, Taliban fighters and grandees clustered around the famed giant statues of the Buddha in Afghanistans Bamiyan province, laid explosives

The imprisoned Evangelist preacher Tony Alamo, who sexually abused young girls he considered to be his wives, has died after serving more than seven years of a 175-year prison sentence, authorities said.