The New York Times
Thursday, May 8, 2014 - 08:59
The head of the Syrian opposition says that he will ask the Obama administration to provide antiaircraft missiles and will try to convince American officials that the weapons would not fall into the wrong hands.
Wednesday, May 7, 2014 - 08:14
Mentions of Benghazi by lawmakers have ebbed and flowed during the past year, peaking around the anniversary of the Sept. 12 attacks and then falling away again.
Wednesday, May 7, 2014 - 06:16
Three weeks after their horrifying abduction in Nigeria, 276 of the more than 300 girls who were taken from a school by armed militants are still missing, possibly sold into slavery or married off. Nigerian security forces apparently do not know where the girls are and the country’s president, Goodluck Jonathan, has been shockingly slow and inept at addressing this monstrous crime.
Wednesday, May 7, 2014 - 06:12
A second kidnapping of schoolgirls in Nigeria’s northeast by Islamist militants put new pressure on the country’s troubled government, which had been hoping to showcase its emergence as Africa’s largest economy this week but instead has been forced to confront its failure to contain a growing insurgency in its north.
Wednesday, May 7, 2014 - 06:03
His remarks, in the second part of a lengthy interview with two talk show hosts, was his first public confirmation that he had discussed the prospect of a military takeover with American officials in the days before it was carried out.
Wednesday, May 7, 2014 - 05:57
If the deal holds, it could be the most complex and far-reaching yet struck between combatants in a three-year conflict that has taken more than 150,000 lives.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 12:24
The sectarian violence between Christian and Muslim militias and civilian mobs that has plagued Central African Republic for the past several months has tipped into a full-fledged campaign of ethnic cleansing of Muslims from the capital Bangui and the southern part of the country.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 12:17
The sound of bullets cracked, whistled and popped on Monday over a United Nations base where 25,000 people huddled for safety.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 12:16
The Obama administration said Monday that it had signed a 20-year lease on its military base in Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, the only American installation on the continent and a staging ground for counterterrorism operations in Yemen and Somalia.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 11:05
In March, the United States sent 150 Air Force Special Operations forces along with military aircraft to Uganda to help capture Joseph Kony, whose Lord’s Resistance Army has terrorized the country for decades.