The New York Times
Thursday, October 27, 2016 - 07:07
The Nigerian military, aided by neighboring countries — along with training from the United States, Britain and France — has made huge advances in fighting Boko Haram. Yet a troubling new series of attacks in Nigeria and the neighboring country of Niger, including one that killed dozens of soldiers, highlights how Boko Haram is far from eliminated
Monday, October 24, 2016 - 06:56
Mexico’s federal police on Friday arrested a fugitive former municipal police chief who is a major figure in the investigation into the disappearance of 43 college students in September 2014.
Monday, October 24, 2016 - 06:50
A dispute between Iraq and Turkey has emerged as a dramatic geopolitical sideshow to the complicated military campaign to retake Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, from the Islamic State.
Friday, October 21, 2016 - 07:00
South Africa became on Friday the second African country to announce that it would leave the International Criminal Court, a decision that campaigners for international justice fear could lead to a devastating exodus from the embattled institution.
Monday, October 17, 2016 - 07:51
A Saudi-led military coalition involved in Yemen’s war acknowledged on Saturday that one of its jets carried out an attack on a funeral this month in the Yemeni capital, Sana, that killed more than 100 people and wounded hundreds of others.
Monday, October 17, 2016 - 07:34
The Obama administration has intensified a clandestine war in Somalia over the past year, using Special Operations troops, airstrikes, private contractors and African allies in an escalating campaign against Islamist militants in the anarchic Horn of Africa nation.
Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 08:02
The inability to replace fallen members of Afghanistan's security forces has raised particular alarm among the top ranks of the Afghan government as well as its Western backers, including the United States. For months now, the police and the army have failed to achieve recruitment goals.
Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 07:03
An American warship stationed off the coast of Yemen fired cruise missiles on Thursday at radar installations that the Pentagon said had been used by Yemeni insurgents to target another American warship in two missile attacks in the last four days.
Tuesday, October 11, 2016 - 06:53
The central accusation of the study on the massacre in Allende is the failure at every level of government, from local police to the federal attorney general’s office, to undertake an investigation of the killings.
Monday, October 10, 2016 - 07:39
Despite being stretched to defend several areas simultaneously, the inexperienced Afghan forces, operating largely on their own now that the NATO mission has drawn down to an advisory role, have so far held their own, Afghan and Western officials say.