Reuters (UK)
Thursday, January 2, 2014 - 07:22
Islamist militants in Somalia said on Thursday that they carried out the triple bombing on a Mogadishu hotel that killed at least 11 people.
Friday, December 20, 2013 - 08:30
Britain has agreed to destroy part of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile at a commercial facility, the British government said on Friday.
Friday, December 20, 2013 - 07:35
An Egyptian soldier was shot dead in the Sinai Peninsula on Friday while the army was conducting a raid to arrest al Qaeda-linked militants, security sources said.
Friday, December 20, 2013 - 07:32
Now that the Tunisian engineer has been named his country's caretaker prime minister, he may need the skills of a career in safety seals and shock absorption to keep the nation that launched the Arab Spring from shaking itself apart before he can steer it through elections intended to cement democracy.
Friday, December 20, 2013 - 07:30
Kazakhstan, seeking a more prominent role on the world stage, decided on Friday to send officers to aid United Nations peacekeeping missions next year for the first time since independence in 1991.
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 07:05
Israeli troops shot and killed a member of the Palestinian security forces whom they were seeking to arrest in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the Israeli military said.
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 07:01
Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahmed Shafik, will soon be free to return from self-imposed exile and perhaps to make a political comeback after Egyptian courts on Thursday acquitted him in a corruption case and shelved another.
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 06:58
Syrian Kurds are demanding their own delegation separate from both the government and opposition at next month's peace talks in Switzerland aimed at halting the conflict in Syria, Kurdish political leaders said on Thursday.
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 06:55
Syrian activists and other citizens have vanished into secret detention as part of a "widespread campaign of terror against the civilian population" by the Damascus government, U.N. investigators said on Thursday.
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 - 08:41
"The Islamic Front has refused to sit with us without giving any reason," U.S. Syria envoy Robert Ford told Al Arabiya television, a day after Secretary of State John Kerry said talks might take place.