The Washington Post
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 00:00
Mexico's attorney general says he has received a letter from fugitive drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero asking the government not to give in to the United States' demand for his capture and extradition to try him for the 1985 killing of a U.S. federal agent
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 00:00
Guatemalan authorities say they have detained 21 people who allegedly laundered money for Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel led by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013 - 08:29
Insurgents assaulted a mayor’s office in a Sunni town just north of Baghdad Tuesday, one of several attacks across Iraq that killed 19 people, said officials.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013 - 08:25
A growing body of evidence collected by U.N. investigators points to the involvement of senior Syrian officials, including President Bashar Assad, in crimes against humanity and war crimes, the U.N.’s top human rights official said Monday.
Monday, December 2, 2013 - 07:40
The warnings have become more dire: The Central African Republic “is descending into complete chaos before our eyes,” the U.N. deputy secretary general said this week. France, the country’s former colonial power, pledged Tuesday to send 1,000 troops there after declaring last week that the situation was “on the verge of genocide.”
Monday, December 2, 2013 - 07:07
Some in Libya, along with a number of outside experts, worry that the new force — whose recruits will be selected by the Libyan defense minister and vetted by the country that trains them — could ultimately become a tool for competing groups to advance their own agendas, or simply one more armed faction in a dangerous sea of firepower.
Monday, December 2, 2013 - 07:05
A bipartisan juggernaut of senior senators is spending the remaining week of the Thanksgiving recess forging agreement on a new sanctions bill that the senators hope to pass before breaking again for Christmas.
Monday, December 2, 2013 - 00:00
Where other church fathers have spoken in generic terms about the violence, the bishop has been bold, leading the Catholic Church into the heart of the public debate.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 00:00
Caricom’s chairwoman, Trinidad Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, said the group also will review its relationship with the Dominican Republic in other forums.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 09:50
Six months after President Obama signaled his desire to shift the campaign to the Defense Department, the CIA’s drone operations center in Langley, Va., is still behind the vast majority of strikes.