The New York Times
Wednesday, February 5, 2014 - 00:00
Servando Gomez, the head of Mexico's feared Knights Templar drug cartel, reflected on his transition from schoolteacher to organized crime boss.
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 - 10:28
Two rockets slammed into the zone in Baghdad where diplomatic and government offices are located, and a wave of bombings struck across the rest of the city on Tuesday, killing more than a dozen people, according to security sources.
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 - 08:02
Four men, including a man identified as a Somali diplomat, were charged in a Kenyan court Tuesday with terrorism-related offenses for the detonation of an improvised explosive device at a popular restaurant at Kenya's main international airport.
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 - 00:00
In the state of Michoacan, in the western part of the country, armed citizens have risen up to directly confront the tyranny of organized crime.
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 - 00:00
Economic disparity, corruption and crime weighed on voters’ minds in both countries, but they disagreed, at least for now, on throwing out the incumbent party.
Monday, February 3, 2014 - 11:11
The United States and Libya in the past three months have discreetly destroyed what both sides say were the last remnants of Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi’s lethal arsenal of chemical arms.
Monday, February 3, 2014 - 10:57
Palestine, he said, would not have its own army, only a police force, so the NATO mission would be responsible for preventing the weapons smuggling and terrorism that Israel fears.
Monday, February 3, 2014 - 08:26
Ali Abdullah Saleh is a rare figure in the Arab world, or anywhere else: an autocrat overthrown by popular revolt who nonetheless remains in his country, unmolested.
Monday, February 3, 2014 - 08:13
The kidnapping marked a low point in relations between Egypt and its western neighbor since the civil war that removed former Libyan President Muammar Gadhafi 2011.
Monday, February 3, 2014 - 07:52
Their remarks were a sharp retort to Secretary of State John Kerry, who warned a day earlier that the risk of boycotts would intensify should his current Middle East peace effort fail.