The New York Times
Monday, October 5, 2015 - 06:17
The American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State has begun preparing to open a major front in northeastern Syria, aiming to put pressure on Raqqa, the terrorist group’s de facto capital, according to military and administration officials.
Thursday, October 1, 2015 - 06:10
In a U-turn at the United Nations Human Rights Council, Western governments dropped plans Wednesday for an international inquiry into human rights violations by all parties in the war in Yemen that has killed thousands of civilians in the last six months.
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - 06:24
The Burkina Faso military crushed the last remnants of a failed coup on Tuesday, storming the barracks of the elite unit that staged the coup 13 days earlier.
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - 06:16
Saudi Arabia and its allies faced mounting international pressure on Tuesday to halt a bombing campaign in Yemen the day after airstrikes killed dozens of people at a village wedding on the Red Sea coast.
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - 05:07
Already undergoing federally mandated reform, Puerto Rico's police department faces an overhaul after a new wave of arrests in an agency widely accused of corruption and other abuses.
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 - 06:13
President Obama announced Monday that the United States would bolster its support for United Nations peacekeeping missions worldwide, as he rallied more than 50 countries to promise to expand their contributions, amounting to around 40,000 new soldiers and police officers.
Monday, September 28, 2015 - 06:07
When President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia met with the leader of his country’s largest guerrilla group this week to seal the outline of a deal to end more than five decades of war, he received an unsettling shock. At the last minute, he said, the rebel leader, Rodrigo Londoño, tried to back out of a crucial part of the newly negotiated framework.
Friday, September 25, 2015 - 06:07
As Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies pressed their military offensive against Houthi rebels in Yemen, Saudi diplomats were waging their own battle to fend off calls in the United Nations Human Rights Council for an international inquiry into abuses by all parties to the Yemeni conflict.
Thursday, September 24, 2015 - 06:15
Now that congressional Democrats have blocked a Republican effort to kill the Iran nuclear deal, attention is shifting to what America must do to reassure Israel and its American supporters that the agreement will not harm Israel’s security.
Thursday, September 24, 2015 - 06:09
As the war in Iraq deteriorated, a senior American intelligence analyst went public in 2005 and criticized President George W. Bush’s administration for pushing “amateurish and unrealistic” plans for the invasion two years before.