The Washington Post
Thursday, June 25, 2015 - 06:53
The Islamic State launched a bloody assault against the Kurdish Syrian town of Kobane on Thursday, five months after the militants were driven from the area by intense U.S. airstrikes.
Monday, June 22, 2015 - 06:18
A key Army commander in the U.S. war against the Islamic State has been reprimanded by the Pentagon for steering a defense contract to a firm run by two of his former classmates at West Point, becoming the latest high-ranking officer to land in trouble for personal misconduct.
Thursday, June 18, 2015 - 06:39
The Dominican Republic was preparing on Wednesday to enforce a new registration deadline that has raised fears of mass deportations of undocumented workers and others of Haitian descent.
Thursday, June 18, 2015 - 06:28
The CIA did not know in advance that al-Qaeda’s leader in Yemen was among the suspected militants targeted in a lethal drone strike last week, according to U.S. officials who said that the operation went forward under counterterrorism guidelines that were eased by the Obama administration after the collapse of the U.S.-backed government in Yemen this year.
Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - 06:22
In a security relationship between Mexico and the United States often described as standoffish, foreign military sales have lately become a big exception. Admiral William E. Gortney, the commander of Northern Command, the U.S. military headquarters that deals with Mexico, testified to Congress earlier this year that Mexico’s buying binge represented a “100-fold increase from prior years.”
Monday, June 15, 2015 - 06:43
As President Obama was weighing how to halt Islamic State advances in Iraq, some of the strongest resistance to boosting U.S. involvement came from a surprising place: a war-weary military that has grown increasingly skeptical that force can prevail in a conflict fueled by political and religious grievances.
Monday, June 15, 2015 - 06:39
The principal pitch of Egyptian strongman Abdel Fatah al-Sissi to his sponsors in the Obama administration is that only he and his military-backed regime can end the threat from Islamic extremists and prevent his country of 90 million people from becoming a failed state. But as the second anniversary of the former general’s bloody coup against a democratically elected government approaches, the facts are undeniable: Egypt is becoming steadily more violent and unstable.
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 07:10
There's a border somewhere in the vast no-man's land of jungles and rivers between Venezuela and Guyana, but for more than a century the two countries have not been able to agree where it is.
Monday, June 8, 2015 - 06:23
In the week since Muhammadu Buhari was inaugurated as president of Nigeria, Boko Haram has responded with a series of deadly bombings that have killed dozens of people across the country’s northeast.
Thursday, June 4, 2015 - 06:48
The U.S. military is gradually expanding a new program to train and equip Syrian opposition fighters, but building a force that can effectively take on the Islamic State may take longer than expected, President Obama’s top military adviser said Wednesday.