The New York Times
Tuesday, July 1, 2014 - 06:56
Sunnis and Kurds walked out of the first session of the Iraqi Parliament on Tuesday, imperiling efforts to form a new government in the face of a bitter offensive by Sunni militants.
Monday, June 30, 2014 - 09:23
Mr. Boudou was charged with receiving bribes and conducting business incompatible with public office. If convicted, Mr. Boudou could face up to six years in prison.
Monday, June 30, 2014 - 07:25
He will seek an emergency appropriation for rapidly expanding border enforcement actions and humanitarian assistance programs to cope with the influx.
Friday, June 27, 2014 - 08:20
Those Uruguay has offered to resettle are four Syrians, a Tunisian and a Palestinian.
Friday, June 27, 2014 - 07:59
With jihadists continuing to entrench their positions across the north and west, and the national army seemingly incapable of mounting a challenge, Americans and even some Iraqis have begun to ask how much blood and treasure it is worth to patch the country back together.
Friday, June 27, 2014 - 07:37
President Obama requested $500 million from Congress on Thursday to train and equip what the White House is calling “appropriately vetted” members of the Syrian opposition, reflecting increased worry about the spillover of the Syrian conflict into Iraq.
Friday, June 27, 2014 - 06:43
They now offer family packages, migrants said, charging up to $7,500 to bring a minor alone or a mother with children from Central America to the American side of the river.
Thursday, June 26, 2014 - 18:55
The United States has given Tajikistan $278 million in military assistance since 2001, and has helped train and equip the G.K.N.B. for counterterrorism and counternarcotics operations despite extensive human rights violations.
Thursday, June 26, 2014 - 13:37
Iran is directing surveillance drones over Iraq from an airfield in Baghdad and is supplying Iraqi forces with tons of military equipment and other supplies, according to American officials.
Thursday, June 26, 2014 - 13:26
A military court in the Jordanian capital, Amman, on Thursday acquitted a militant Islamic cleric known as Abu Qatada on charges of planning a terrorist attack on an American school there in the late 1990s, the latest chapter in a longstanding legal fight that included a death sentence in absentia, a 10-year court battle in Britain and his deportation a year ago.