The New York Times
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 08:10
"We are attempting to achieve a framework for a continuation of negotiations for a period exceeding the nine months in which some thought that we would be able to reach a permanent agreement," Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon told reporters.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 08:09
And while the Saudis are clearly alarmed at Hezbollah’s staying power and its intervention in Syria’s civil war, analysts say the gift announced last week was intended as much to send a message to the United States as to shift the military balance.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 08:00
In Egypt, it no longer appears to be a question of if, but when army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will declare his candidacy for president
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 07:01
The United States has demanded negotiations. Uganda has threatened to intervene. China has called for an immediate cease-fire.
Monday, January 6, 2014 - 10:09
South Sudan is in many ways an American creation, carved out of war-torn Sudan in a referendum largely orchestrated by the United States, its fragile institutions nurtured with billions of dollars in American aid. But a murky, vicious conflict there has left the Obama administration scrambling to prevent the unraveling of a major American achievement in Africa.
Monday, January 6, 2014 - 08:21
When Jacob Atem was just a young boy, his parents were killed during the long war for independence from Sudan, and he found himself among the legions of orphaned children known as the Lost Boys wandering hundreds of miles across this part of Africa.
Monday, January 6, 2014 - 08:15
The government has threatened to use force if the militia attempts to bring in oil before the standoff is resolved.
Monday, January 6, 2014 - 08:14
The deadliest attack took place in northern Baghdad's mainly Shi'ite district of Shaab where two car bombs went off killing at least nine people and wounding 25.
Monday, January 6, 2014 - 08:13
It is becoming more decentralized, but also more cohesive and rigid, as its members abandon activities like preaching and social work and shift their attention to a virtually singular goal: resistance to the military-backed government.
Monday, January 6, 2014 - 07:00
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan flew to South Sudan on Monday to discuss the crisis unfolding there with President Salva Kiir after the start of peace talks in Ethiopia failed to bring a halt to fighting.