Associated Press
Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - 11:17
The Obama administration tried to bolster its case for possible military action against Syria within days, with intelligence agencies preparing to release intercepted communications proving Assad perpetrated a large-scale chemical weapons attack.
Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - 08:56
In every corner of the Egyptian capital, a bustling city of 18 million that rarely sleeps, people are locked up in their homes at night under a military-imposed curfew that has driven people up the walls, sometimes literally.
Monday, August 19, 2013 - 00:00
Uruguayan officials allege the uncle was using a small plane to look for clandestine landing fields for drug smuggling.
Tuesday, August 13, 2013 - 08:21
The Islamic extremist from Minnesota smiles as he compares Somalia to Disneyland, urging other Muslims to come and "take pleasure in this fun."
But Troy Kastigar, one of three fighters featured in a nearly 40-minute Internet video recently released by the Somali extremist rebel group al-Shabab, was killed in 2009, not long after leaving Minneapolis to join the militants' bloody campaign to seize power in Somalia. At the time al-Shabab held sway in large parts of the capital, Mogadishu, and was fighting African Union troops sent to back the transitional government there.
Thursday, August 1, 2013 - 06:37
Among the countries of the Arab Spring, Tunisia is widely considered to have the best chance for a successful democracy, but the emergence of an armed al-Qaida-linked jihadi group threatens to derail the tenuous transition.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - 12:30
Yemen's president on Tuesday pardoned a journalist who was jailed for three years on charges of helping al-Qaida and U.S. born militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
Thursday, July 25, 2013 - 12:49
A senior Hamas official says the new Egyptian government's crackdown on militants in the Sinai Peninsula is part of an anti-Hamas campaign, the first criticism by the group of Egypt's new leadership.