The Washington Post
Monday, December 16, 2013 - 08:26
But while the non-Islamist youth see their fight as a struggle for rights against a repressive military and police force, they still consider Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood their political enemies.
Monday, December 16, 2013 - 08:11
Syrian government aircraft pounded opposition areas near the southern border with Jordan and in the northern city of Aleppo on Monday, a day after a series of airstrikes on the contested city killed at least 76 people, activists said.
Monday, December 16, 2013 - 07:43
An estimated 100,000 South Africans lined up in Pretoria to view Nelson Mandela in his casket but about a third of the overwhelming crowd was sent away without being able to file past the bier.
Friday, December 13, 2013 - 10:22
In Tunisia itself, the question is whether the Islamist-led government, headed by Rachid Ghannouchi’s Ennahda party, can succeed. The Washington Post’s Lally Weymouth spoke with Ghannouchi on Tuesday in Tunis.
Friday, December 13, 2013 - 09:11
Rwanda’s ethnic conflict was a quarrel in a faraway country between people of which we know nothing — until it became a byword for moral abdication in the face of genocide.
Friday, December 13, 2013 - 08:34
The Obama administration is willing to consider supporting an expanded Syrian rebel coalition that would include Islamist groups, provided the groups are not allied with al-Qaeda and agree to support upcoming peace talks in Geneva.
Friday, December 13, 2013 - 00:00
“Another day, another mass grave,” read one headline. The investigation netted 22 police officers accused of participating in the killings. They came from across the river, marking the Jalisco-Michoacan state line, where cartels have been fighting.
Thursday, December 12, 2013 - 08:45
More recently, the Wall Street Journal disclosed that a similar X-band radar is going to a secret site in Qatar, all but guaranteeing early warning for missiles launched from almost any part of Iran and aimed at the Middle East.
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 - 09:47
Three judges presiding over the trial of Egypt’s senior Muslim Brotherhood members have stepped down after the defendants disrupted the proceedings and chanted against the judiciary.
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 - 09:16
The French military says it has killed at least 19 extremists this week in an operation in the northern desert region near Timbuktu, one of the towns that was under al-Qaida control for much of 2012.