The Los Angeles Times
Friday, April 4, 2014 - 00:00
Two armed Mexican soldiers crossed into Arizona in January and faced off with the U.S. officers.
Monday, March 31, 2014 - 12:24
Egypt's election commission said Sunday that the first round of voting for a new president would be held May 26 and 27 and that any runoff would conclude within a month of that.
Friday, March 28, 2014 - 09:36
Barring an unexpected development, such as Assad's death or direct foreign intervention, it's hard to fathom how the opposition can turn things around.
Monday, March 24, 2014 - 07:40
In recent months, Syria's so-called "southern front" has become the focus of a reinvigorated U.S.-backed initiative to bolster faltering opposition forces now losing ground in their three-year battle to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Friday, March 21, 2014 - 00:00
HR Watch on Thursday blamed the Urabenos criminal gang for helping cause one of Colombia's worst humanitarian crises in years: the forced displacement last year of 19,000 people from the city of Buenaventura.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - 08:28
The mostly Sunni Muslim demonstrators shutting down roads on Tuesday were protesting a blockade of the largely Sunni town of Arsal, close to the Syrian border in the northeast Bekka Valley.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - 00:00
Manuel Mondragon y Kalb, Mexico's national security commissioner, follows Gen. Oscar Naranjo, the drug war advisor, in resigning.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 09:34
A state-appointed human rights panel on Monday blamed both sides for the deadly violence seven months ago when security forces broke up protest camps set up by supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 08:10
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has imposed harsh Islamic edicts in Raqqah. Chafing under its rule, a third of the population reportedly has fled.
Friday, March 14, 2014 - 00:00
The Venezuelan government acts as intermediary in all foreign financial transactions and is holding up payments to a broad spectrum of foreign vendors, which economists say illustrates its dire cash shortage.