Reuters
Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - 12:53
But one of the biggest arsenals in the region, intended to both fight Israel and local insurgents, seems unlikely to be exhausted any time soon.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - 09:29
Mali's president asked a national congress on Monday to draw up plans for increased regional autonomy, a year after northern separatists and their Islamist allies seized two-thirds of the country, prompting France to send in troops.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - 09:10
Regional leaders on Monday authorised African troops deployed to Central African Republic to use force if necessary to drive foreign fighters out of the country, which has been plagued by violence.
Monday, October 21, 2013 - 08:57
A suicide bomber killed at least 16 people on Saturday in an attack on a cafe in a Somali town close to the Ethiopian border frequented by local and foreign soldiers fighting al Qaeda-linked rebels.
Monday, October 21, 2013 - 08:21
A suicide bomber driving a minibus blew himself up outside a cafe in a mainly Shi'ite Muslim district of the Iraqi capital on Sunday, killing at least 38 people, police and medics said.
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 10:32
"We have discussed potential dates but nothing has been finalized," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told a daily briefing. "No date is final until it is set and announced by the UN."
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 10:30
The new indictment returned by a grand jury in Washington charges 33 counts, including voluntary manslaughter, attempt to commit manslaughter and using a firearm in a crime of violence.
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 10:27
Rebel snipers killed a top-ranking general in Syrian military intelligence on Thursday, state television and opposition activists said.
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 10:12
The militia rivalries mirror a struggle within Libya's fragile government, where the secular tribal alliance controls the defense ministry and the Islamist-leaning Libya Shield Force works under the interior ministry.
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 08:53
Two charred bodies recovered from Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall are highly likely to be two of the gunmen who killed dozens of people last month in one of the worst militant strikes on Kenyan soil, a lawmaker probing the attack said on Friday.