The New York Times
Monday, March 2, 2015 - 07:11
Public health experts preparing for an international conference on Ebola on Tuesday seem to have no doubt that the disease can be vanquished in the West African countries ravaged by it in the last year. But the steep downward trajectory of new cases late last year and into January did not lead to the end of the epidemic.
Monday, March 2, 2015 - 06:59
Audio recordings of senior Egyptian officials that were leaked Sunday suggest that when Mohamed Morsi was president, the United Arab Emirates gave the Egyptian Defense Ministry money for a protest campaign against him.
Friday, February 27, 2015 - 06:22
The $1.3 billion that the United States government has spent since 2005 encouraging Africans to avoid AIDS by practicing abstinence and fidelity did not measurably change sexual behavior and was largely wasted, according to a study presented on the last day of an AIDS conference here.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - 07:12
Ukraine's president says his country has signed an agreement to cooperate with the United Arab Emirates on military and technical issues as he kicked off a visit to the Western-allied Gulf nation
Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - 06:48
The new defense secretary, Ashton B. Carter, said Monday after meeting with senior American military and diplomatic officials in Kuwait that the Obama administration had “the ingredients of the strategy” to defeat Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - 06:24
Kenya’s coastal tourism is collapsing, and part of the reason — a big part of the reason, Kenyan officials say — is Western travel warnings issued after a round of violence last summer in a remote coastal area. The American warning is perhaps the strictest, barring embassy personnel from setting foot anywhere on the coast, unless special permission is granted.
Monday, February 23, 2015 - 07:19
Four days into his tenure as defense secretary, Ashton B. Carter arrived in Afghanistan on Saturday morning and opened up the possibility of slowing the withdrawal of the last American troops in the country to help keep the Taliban at bay.
Monday, February 23, 2015 - 06:55
The new secretary of defense, Ashton B. Carter, will continue his crash course on American military operations in the greater Middle East with a closed-door conference on Monday in Kuwait, where he is scheduled to meet with three dozen senior American military and diplomatic officials who are leading the fight against the Islamic State.
Thursday, February 19, 2015 - 06:28
Chad’s army has made its deepest push yet into Nigeria in a three-front regional war against Boko Haram, entering a town 50 miles from a beleaguered Nigerian state capital that has been surrounded for months by the militant group, Nigerian security officials said Wednesday.
Thursday, February 19, 2015 - 06:19
Pakistan’s top military and intelligence officials have begun pressing the Taliban to sit down for face-to-face discussions with the Afghan government, potentially opening a path for direct peace talks for the first time since the start of the American-led invasion in 2001, according to Western and Afghan officials briefed on the discussions.