The New York Times
Monday, April 20, 2015 - 06:53
Mexican officials said Sunday that they had captured a leader of the Juárez Cartel, Jesús Salas Aguayo, the man in charge of the gang’s operations in Ciudad Juárez during a convulsion of violence that made the city one of the world’s most murderous
Monday, April 20, 2015 - 06:47
By the time it is finished, Operation Dragoon Ride, which began a week ago in the Baltics and is due to conclude later this week, will be the longest such movement the United States Army has made across Europe since Gen. George S. Patton diverted his Third Army to relieve Bastogne, Belgium, in 1944.
Friday, April 17, 2015 - 07:45
In the last few months, the rebels had declared a unilateral cease-fire, pledging to stop carrying out attacks, and had promised to stop recruiting child fighters. The two sides had even agreed to work together to find and destroy the thousands of land mines littering Colombia after five decades of war.
Friday, April 17, 2015 - 06:51
Al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen took control of a major airport and an oil export terminal in the southern part of the country on Thursday, expanding the resurgent militant group’s reach just two weeks after it seized the nearby city of Al Mukalla and emptied its bank and prison.
Friday, April 17, 2015 - 06:43
The United States government imposed sanctions on three leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha street gang on Thursday as part of a broader effort to crack down on the transnational gang, which is based in El Salvador and runs human trafficking and drug operations into the United States.
Thursday, April 16, 2015 - 07:04
A remarkable clash between two key American allies in the Middle East burst into the open here on Wednesday as the Iraqi prime minister publicly criticized the Saudi air campaign in Yemen and a top Saudi official retorted that there was “no logic to those remarks.”
Thursday, April 16, 2015 - 05:49
The federal police on Wednesday detained the treasurer of the governing Workers’ Party, João Vaccari Neto, in connection with an investigation into corruption at the state-run oil giant Petrobras.
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 07:05
President Obama gave Haider al-Abadi, the prime minister of Iraq, a full-throated endorsement and $200 million in humanitarian aid on Tuesday, but the visiting leader left the White House still in need of billions more dollars to cope with plunging oil prices and a yawning budget deficit.
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 - 07:19
Libyans have puzzled for four years over what might arrest their country’s disintegration. Feuding factions have consistently reached for guns instead of compromises in their battle to fill the vacuum left by the fall of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, ultimately breaking the country into two warring coalitions of militias and city-states.
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 - 07:06
An investigation of American drone strikes in Yemen concludes that the Obama administration has not followed its own rules to avoid civilian casualties and is setting a dangerous example for other countries that want to use unmanned aircraft against terrorists.