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Wednesday, December 17, 2014 - 06:32
Residents of a community near the Mexican city where police attacked buses full of students said in a new report that they were obligated to help the Guerreros Unidos cartel carry out the mass disappearance of 43 teachers college students.
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 - 06:29
Germany’s cabinet agreed Wednesday to send up to 100 soldiers to Iraq to train Kurdish fighters locked in a battle with Islamic State militants.
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 - 06:26
Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi issued a decree on Monday to create a new police rank with arrest powers, the move will increase the number of law enforcement staff.
Spokesperson to the presidency, Alaa Youssef said in a statement that the decision aims at creating a new rank of 'police aides' who will be appointed and trained according to specific criteria.
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 - 06:23
Held for five years in Cuba, 65-year-old American contractor Alan Gross has been released from prison and is en route to U.S. soil, ABC News has learned exclusively.
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 - 06:10
For months, Pakistani army officials, including Army Chief Raheel Rharif, claimed that the military's operation against the Taliban – known as Zarb-e-Azb – in the country's northwestern areas had been extremely successful in destroying the militants' sanctuaries. But the Islamists' attack on an army-run school in Peshawar, the capital city of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, on December 16, tells a completely different story.
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 - 06:04
India and Russia have agreed to settle their differences over the Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) program, which the countries are co-producing. But a source in the Indian Defence Ministry said irritants remain following the summit-level talks here Dec. 11.
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 - 06:02
South Korea will export 120 self-propelled howitzers developed by Samsung Techwin to Poland, officials from the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) and Techwin said on Tuesday.
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 - 06:00
Japan and the United States have decided to delay revising the Guidelines for Japan-U.S. Defense Cooperation, which the two countries had earlier agreed to do by the end of this year, it was learned Tuesday.
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 - 05:55
The top American watchdog for Afghanistan’s reconstruction is investigating whether a Pentagon task force charged with juicing Afghanistan’s moribund economy misspent millions of taxpayer dollars on lavish overseas travel and complicated development projects that did little to create new jobs or spur new growth in the country.
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 - 05:52
The owners of a Kyrgyzstan news portal that has been blocked for showing a video by the Islamic State militant group have said that the government acted illegally in shutting down the site.