The New York Times
Thursday, December 5, 2013 - 07:54
State Department officials described the security briefing as an “ongoing process” and not a finished product on which the United States was demanding a yes-or-no vote from the Israeli side.
Thursday, December 5, 2013 - 07:53
Suicide bombers and gunmen attacked a police intelligence headquarters in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, killing at least six people and wounding dozens more, a health official said.
Thursday, December 5, 2013 - 00:00
Cobalt 60 can be extremely dangerous when exposed to humans, and the theft has raised concerns of a more sinister motive, like the manufacture of a dirty bomb
Thursday, December 5, 2013 - 00:00
Though the parcels he found being planted on the sides of mountains were illegal - and subject to government eradication efforts - the coca farmers he documented in out-of-the-way mountainside plots were growing the leaf for traditional uses,
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 08:42
France formally circulated a Security Council resolution on Tuesday night that would authorize thousands of African troops, aided by hundreds of French soldiers, to restore order in the Central African Republic, a mineral-rich country that has plunged into deadly anarchy and threatens to destabilize the region.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 07:41
The father of a convicted Jordanian-American militant says the kingdom's police have arrested his son, who was jailed in 2004 for plotting a terror attack but then pardoned.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 07:40
Iraq's prime minister has arrived in Iran's capital for a three-day visit that will focus on the civil war in Syria and bilateral ties.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 07:35
One growing source of concern is the number of Muslims from Western countries who have gone to fight in Syria and might eventually return home and pose a terrorist threat.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 07:11
"Lebanon is not a sovereign country," said Beirut-based political scientist Hilal Khashan. "Each sect has foreign patrons and they know they need foreign patrons; this country is run from the outside."
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 07:09
Russian President Vladimir Putin met Saudi intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan near Moscow and discussed the war in Syria and Iran's nuclear program, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.