The New York Times
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 06:42
Counterterrorism officials regard the Libyan branch as the Islamic State’s most dangerous affiliate, but to stop its advance, the U.S. has been forced to court unreliable allies from among a patchwork of Libyan militias that remain unaccountable, poorly organized and divided by region and tribe
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 06:40
The Uzbek government, lobbied by rights groups and pressured quietly by the United States to free a high-profile political prisoner, has finally revealed a secret: He died five years ago. Akram Yuldashev, one of the most prominent religious leaders in post-Soviet Central Asia, died in prison in 2010 at the age of 52, the Uzbek authorities confirmed this month.
Friday, January 15, 2016 - 07:45
Though the Nigerian military has arrested and killed many fighters — and more crucially, retaken a swath of territory once held by insurgents that is estimated to be as large as Belgium — the gains have come against a backdrop of relentless suicide bombings that, if anything, have escalated.
Tuesday, January 12, 2016 - 06:58
Senior diplomats from Pakistan, Afghanistan, China and the United States met in Islamabad on Monday to try to lay the groundwork for a new round of peace talks with the Taliban.
Thursday, January 7, 2016 - 06:59
The Guatemalan authorities on Wednesday arrested 18 former military officers on charges related to massacres and disappearances during the 1980s. The U.S. equipped and trained Guatemalan security forces during the country's civil war.
Tuesday, January 5, 2016 - 07:01
The Obama administration on Monday confronted the fundamental contradiction in its increasingly tense relationship with Saudi Arabia. It could not bring itself, at least in public, to condemn the execution of a dissident cleric who challenged the royal family, for fear of undermining the fragile Saudi leadership that it desperately needs in fighting the Islamic State and ending the conflict in Syria.
Monday, January 4, 2016 - 08:54
When he campaigned for the presidency of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto used the title of his book, “Mexico, the Great Hope,” to explain the record he hoped to achieve and the nation he hoped to build. More than three years into his presidency, it seems more likely that he will be remembered not as the transformational leader Mexicans thought they had elected, but as a politician who skirted accountability at every turn.
Friday, December 18, 2015 - 06:32
A chronic problem with desertions among airmen sent to the United States for training is adding to the woes of the Afghan Air Force, which has been stretched thin during a difficult fighting season and is struggling to build itself up to strength.
Thursday, December 17, 2015 - 06:46
There is a chance now to end the civil war in Yemen as the government of President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi and the Houthi rebels begin peace talks in Switzerland amid a cease-fire.
Thursday, December 17, 2015 - 06:44
For those of us in Kurdistan, the Islamic State is a daily reality we must confront. The pesh merga forces numbering more than 20,000 whom I have the honor of commanding look out from their trenches at an army of extremists bent on killing or enslaving all who oppose them.