Mark Mazzetti
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 - 06:57
audi Arabia said Tuesday that it was halting a nearly month-old bombing campaign against a rebel group in neighboring Yemen that has touched off a devastating humanitarian crisis and threatened to ignite a broader regional conflict.
Wednesday, March 25, 2015 - 06:49
Mr. Obama on Tuesday announced that he would leave 9,800 American troops in Afghanistan until at least the end of the year. The announcement came after a daylong White House meeting with President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan.
Monday, August 11, 2014 - 06:41
With American diplomats and business people in Erbil suddenly at risk, at the American Consulate and elsewhere, Mr. Obama began a series of intensive deliberations that resulted, only a day later, in his authorizing airstrikes on the militants, as well as humanitarian airdrops of food and water to the besieged Iraqis.
Monday, July 7, 2014 - 07:03
Obama's new counterterrorism plan faces obstacles with realities on the ground in Syria and Iraq.
Monday, April 7, 2014 - 07:18
A number of bungled drone strikes carried out by the Joint Special Operations Command in Yemen led the government there in recent months to temporarily ban drone strikes by the military.
Wednesday, February 5, 2014 - 08:55
Concern has been mounting both in Congress and in the Obama administration that the policy toward Syria is faltering on several fronts.
Monday, September 23, 2013 - 11:24
The ferocious armed political movement known as the Shabab is on the ropes in Somalia, losing territory and influence in its home country.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013 - 07:45
American officials said that Mr. Zawahri used the communication to urge the Yemeni leader, Nasir ul-Wuhayshi, to carry out a large terrorist attack, and that separately he had elevated Mr. Wuhayshi to a more important role inside Al Qaeda.
Friday, August 2, 2013 - 11:34
President Obama is giving serious consideration to speeding up the withdrawal of United States forces from Afghanistan and to a “zero option” that would leave no American troops there after next year, according to American and European officials.
Thursday, July 25, 2013 - 13:13
A month ago Obama administration officials promised to deliver arms and ammunition to the Syrian rebels in the hope of reversing the tide of a war that had turned against an embattled opposition.