The New York Times
Friday, January 29, 2016 - 06:18
Pentagon officials have concluded that hundreds more trainers, advisers and commandos from the United States and its allies will need to be sent to Iraq and Syria in the coming months as the campaign to isolate the Islamic State intensifies.
Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 05:50
On Thursday, Mr. Gbagbo, the former president of Ivory Coast, will go on trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, facing four counts of crimes against humanity stemming from the violence surrounding the 2010 presidential election. He was narrowly defeated in a runoff, but he insisted that he had won and refused to cede power, leading to months of turmoil and the deaths of more than 3,000 people before his arrest in April 2011.
Wednesday, January 27, 2016 - 08:42
Instead of being held in the formal legal system people have disappeared into a network of secretive detention centers, run by the security forces, where they are held incommunicado, without charge or access to a lawyer, for weeks and sometimes months, according to the rights groups.
Wednesday, January 27, 2016 - 08:38
The Pentagon is ramping up intelligence-gathering in Libya as the Obama administration draws up plans to open a third front in the war against the Islamic State.
Friday, January 22, 2016 - 07:22
His arrest in Spain only served to underscore the weakness of Mexico’s institutions when it comes to confronting corruption among the political class.
Friday, January 22, 2016 - 07:10
After spending more than $33 million on a widely discredited election in Haiti, the United States has been pressing the country’s leaders to go ahead with a presidential runoff election this Sunday, despite a growing chorus of warnings that the vote could lead to an explosion of violence.
Friday, January 22, 2016 - 06:33
The murderous struggle between the government and opposition forces in South Sudan has already resulted in widespread atrocities and left thousands of people on the brink of starvation, yet in the past year, both sides intensified and spread the conflict, the United Nations said Thursday.
Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 06:48
A high-profile British inquiry into the poisoning of Alexander V. Litvinenko, a former K.G.B. officer turned critic of the Kremlin, concluded in a report released on Thursday that his murder “was probably approved” by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and the head of the country’s spy service.
Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 06:41
President Obama has made it easier for the military to get approval for strikes in Afghanistan targeting militias that have sworn allegiance to the Islamic State, according to several government officials.
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 - 07:20
A Pakistani military spokesman said army sharpshooters and commandos had killed four militants in the gun battle. Security officials have estimated that as many as six assailants participated in the attack, which began with men scaling the rear walls of the campus and firing into the air.