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Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - 07:12
In response to mounting criticism that sectarian Shiite Muslim militias are committing crimes against the mostly Sunni Muslim residents of embattled Anbar province, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al Abadi has authorized training and arming Sunni militiamen to combat the Islamic State.
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 - 07:10
Three years after the toppling of Moammar Gadhafi, the military chiefs of seven Arab countries are expected to meet in Cairo next week to discuss whether they should intervene in Libya, which is split between two governments, controlled by rival militias and home now to a blossoming Islamic State affiliate.
Friday, April 24, 2015 - 06:39
The Defense Department can’t account for $1.3 billion that was shipped to force commanders in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2014 for critical reconstruction projects, 60 percent of all such spending under an emergency program, an internal report released Thursday concludes.
Monday, April 20, 2015 - 06:36
The UAE is hoping its public posture will help push a message that the alliance is a new form of Arab nationalism made necessary by the unprecedented wave of conflict now sweeping the Middle East. The UAE is at the forefront of trying to defend the actions of a coalition, led by Saudi Arabia, that for the past nearly four weeks has been bombing Yemen in a push to block the advance of Houthi rebels believed to be aligned with Iran.
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 - 07:04
An international human rights group on Monday expressed concern that some of the airstrikes conducted by a U.S-backed, Saudi-led coalition in Yemen appeared to violate the laws of war and urged the United States and Saudi Arabia to take steps to minimize harm to civilians.
Friday, March 13, 2015 - 07:47
A member of the late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s brutal secret police who’s been accused of murder taught for more than a decade at the Pentagon’s premier university, despite repeated complaints by his colleagues about his past.
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 06:20
The United States has stopped paying most of the pro-western rebels fighting in northern Syria and has suspended the delivery of arms to them, rebel commanders told McClatchy Tuesday.
Monday, October 6, 2014 - 06:13
A former French intelligence officer who defected to al Qaida was among the targets of the first wave of U.S. air strikes in Syria last month, according to people familiar with the defector’s movements and identity.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - 07:44
Insurgent records suggest that the United States will find it difficult to rout an organization whose structure and attention to detail allowed it to prosper even during the toughest U.S. counterterrorism efforts of the last decade.
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - 06:46
Border Patrol stations along the 1,950-mile southwest border and shelters are overflowing with the tens of thousands of unaccompanied children who have crossed into the United States this year.