The New York Times
Tuesday, December 2, 2014 - 06:19
A wave of attacks across northern Nigeria, including two on Monday — a suicide bombing at a market and an assault on security facilities — showed that the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram remained able to strike at will in the region, especially against civilian targets.
Wednesday, November 26, 2014 - 05:08
In a predawn raid on Tuesday, United States Special Operations commandos and Yemeni troops rescued eight hostages being held in a cave in a remote part of eastern Yemen by Al Qaeda’s affiliate there, officials from both countries said.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - 06:21
Armenia announced on Monday ceremonial funerals for three soldiers killed this month when Azerbaijani forces shot down a helicopter in the fiercely disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, an event that signaled a grave escalation in the more than 25-year-long conflict.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - 05:05
Talks between the Sudanese government and two rebels groups from the Darfur region began here in the Ethiopian capital on Sunday.
Monday, November 24, 2014 - 08:20
The government of the new Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, has quietly lifted the ban on night raids by special forces troops that his predecessor had imposed.
Monday, November 24, 2014 - 06:42
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is stepping down under pressure, the first cabinet-level casualty of the collapse of President Obama’s Democratic majority in the Senate and the struggles of his national security team amid an onslaught of global crises.
Monday, November 24, 2014 - 06:28
The Iraqi military and police forces had been so thoroughly pillaged by their own corrupt leadership that they all but collapsed this spring in the face of the advancing militants of the Islamic State — despite roughly $25 billion worth of American training and equipment over the past 10 years and far more from the Iraqi treasury.
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - 22:23
The country’s largest rebel group has agreed to free an army general and four other captives, officials said Wednesday. The general’s capture on Sunday led President Juan Manuel Santos to suspend peace talks with the rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - 06:45
The police said they arrested two suspects Tuesday in the disappearance last Thursday of Miss Honduras, María José Alvarado, 19, and her sister Sofía, 23.
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 06:47
Egypt’s military said on Monday that it intended to double the size of a secured buffer zone in a town bordering the Gaza Strip after discovering smuggling tunnels across the frontier that were longer than expected, according to state news media.