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  • Kerry makes urgent trip to Kabul as security pact deadline looms

    By Carol J. Williams
    Story | Oct 11, 2013 | 10:56 AM
    Kerry makes urgent trip to Kabul as security pact deadline looms
    Secretary of State John F. Kerry made an unannounced visit to Kabul on Friday to press Afghan President Hamid Karzai to work out the last, divisive details of a proposed U.S. military presence in Afghanistan after the 2014 withdrawal of NATO forces.

    • Chemical arms watchdog wins Nobel Peace Prize

    By Henry Chu
    Story | Oct 11, 2013 | 2:24 AM
    Chemical arms watchdog wins Nobel Peace Prize
    LONDON -- The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the watchdog group that has risen to sudden prominence over the past month in the effort to divest Syria of such munitions. “...

    Private charity to restore death benefits for U.S. military families

    By Maria L. La Ganga and David S. Cloud
    Story | Oct 9, 2013 | 4:58 PM
    Private charity to restore death benefits for U.S. military families
    WASHINGTON — Not long after the flag-draped coffins of four Americans killed in combat arrived Wednesday at Delaware's Dover Air Force Base, the Pentagon announced that a private charity would restore death benefits for the families of military...

    Egyptian military contends with Sinai violence, cuts in U.S. aid

    By Laura King
    Story | Oct 10, 2013 | 11:00 AM
    Egyptian military contends with Sinai violence, cuts in U.S. aid
    CAIRO -- An explosion ripped through a checkpoint in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula on Thursday, killing three soldiers and a police officer, while Egyptian officials sought to put the best face on a U.S. move to cut hundreds of millions of dollars...

    U.S. delays Miranda rights for captured Al Qaeda operative

    By Ken Dilanian
    Story | Oct 9, 2013 | 5:12 PM
    U.S. delays Miranda rights for captured Al Qaeda operative
    WASHINGTON — The Al Qaeda terrorist suspect known as Abu Anas al Liby has the right to remain silent under U.S. law, but none of his American interrogators have told him that yet, U.S. officials say. The 49-year-old Libyan was grabbed by U.S....
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  • The diplomatic track in Syria

    By The Times editorial board
    Story | Oct 10, 2013
    The diplomatic track in Syria
    Even before his on-again, off-again threat to punish the government of Syria for the use of chemical weapons, President Obama was criticized for what many saw as a halting and incoherent policy toward the civil war in that country. Advocates of muscular U.S. intervention noted that Obama had said it was time for President Bashar Assad to step aside, but he had declined to weaken Assad's position either by establishing a no-fly zone or by providing opposition forces with significant military hardware....

  • A line in the sand over opening Mexico's beaches to foreign ownership

    By Richard Fausset
    Story | Oct 7, 2013 | 5:00 AM
    A line in the sand over opening Mexico's beaches to foreign ownership
    ARROYO SECO, Mexico — To nationalistic Mexicans, it may sound like blasphemy. But Artemio Rosas doesn't care. He wants more gringos living in his tiny coastal pueblo. As it stands, a few hundred foreign surfers visit each winter to ride a strong north swell that moves across the smaller of Arroyo Seco's two pristine Pacific beaches. Rosas wants them to stay, buy land and build retirement and vacation homes on this obscure pocket of coast, two hours south of Puerto Vallarta. It would help his...

  • Terrorism and American justice

    By The Times editorial board
    Story | Oct 8, 2013
    Terrorism and American justice
    Thanks to a dramatic operation by U.S. military and intelligence agencies in Libya over the weekend, a suspected Al Qaeda figure indicted in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa will finally face American justice. The capture of Abu Anas al Liby — and a raid the same day on the home of a leader of Al Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia — suggest that the Obama administration is willing to incur the risks necessary to take some alleged terrorists alive. That may signal an overdue shift...

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  • U.S. to partially suspend military aid to Egypt

    By Shashank Bengali
    Story | Oct 9, 2013 | 1:06 PM
    U.S. to partially suspend military aid to Egypt
    WASHINGTON -- Three months after President Obama ordered a review of U.S. aid to Egypt following a military coup there, the White House appears to have settled on a middle ground: maintaining key assistance for security and counter-terrorism efforts while suspending delivery of tanks, helicopters and other military hardware. The decision, which officials said would be announced within days, reflects the Obama administration’s desire to rebuke the Egyptian military for its ever-expanding...

  • U.S. raids on Al Qaeda operatives show shift away from drone strikes

    By Ken Dilanian and David S. Cloud
    Story | Oct 6, 2013 | 9:06 PM
    U.S. raids on Al Qaeda operatives show shift away from drone strikes
    WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's decision to mount two risky attempts to capture Al Qaeda operatives in Africa reflects a reduced role for lethal CIA drone strikes and a growing prominence for the Pentagon in counter-terrorism operations, U.S. officials said Sunday. In one raid, Navy SEALs stormed the coastal Somalia home of a leader of the Shabab, the Somali-based group that claimed responsibility for last month's massacre in a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya. In that operation, the...

  • U.S. at odds with Afghanistan over the post-withdrawal mission

    By David S. Cloud
    Story | Oct 6, 2013 | 6:00 AM
    U.S. at odds with Afghanistan over the post-withdrawal mission
    WASHINGTON — Closed-door negotiations to determine the American military mission in Afghanistan after 2014 have stalled over U.S. demands to conduct lethal counter-terrorism operations and Afghan insistence that Washington guarantee support in event of cross-border attacks. President Hamid Karzai is balking at Obama administration demands that U.S. special operations troops and the CIA be allowed to capture or even kill suspected terrorists after most U.S. troops close out America's longest war at...