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Thursday, December 3, 2015 - 06:32
The U.S. Army is testing and upgrading a language-translation program by training with African soldiers, officials said. Capturing French accents and dialects from across Africa helps scientists refine the translation software.
Thursday, December 3, 2015 - 06:21
Honduras has experienced more massacres so far in 2015 than in all of last year, suggesting violence related to organized crime remains rampant despite a significant drop in the country's murder rate.
Thursday, December 3, 2015 - 06:17
The end may be in sight for Dilma Rousseff's presidency after impeachment proceedings were authorized on Wednesday by the speaker of Brazil's lower house of Congress.
Thursday, December 3, 2015 - 06:10
Lawmakers of both parties have run out of patience with Shiite sectarianism that is seen as a major obstacle preventing more Sunni tribes from turning against the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS). Their frustration boiled over at a Dec. 1 hearing of the House Armed Services panel during which legislators demanded that the Obama administration turn the screws on Baghdad.
Thursday, December 3, 2015 - 06:03
Iraq's ruling alliance and powerful Shi'ite militias say Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi would be digging his own political grave and undermining the fight against Islamic State if he permits the deployment of a new U.S. special operations force in the country.
Thursday, December 3, 2015 - 05:52
Militants belonging to Al Qaeda’s local affiliate seized control of two towns in southern Yemen early Wednesday, including a provincial capital, in their latest move to take advantage of turmoil during the country’s civil war.
Thursday, December 3, 2015 - 05:45
The British Parliament on Wednesday authorized airstrikes in Syria against the Islamic State, in a vote that became a wider test of British willingness to play an active role in international affairs, and British warplanes made their first attacks hours later.
Thursday, December 3, 2015 - 05:39
During a U.S. military training exercise at Iraq’s Habbaniyah air base a few months ago, Sheik Taher al-Jassem said some of his fellow tribesmen wondered aloud how they could sit beside the same American soldiers they would have tried to kill only a few years ago.
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 - 07:13
NATO foreign ministers reaffirmed on December 2 that Georgia should go through a Membership Action Plan (MAP) phase, which the country has been denied since 2008, before it can join the Alliance.
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 - 07:12
Discontent over the increasingly authoritarian governing style is made potentially more dangerous considering widespread unhappiness over the dire economic situation in Tajikistan.