Wreckage found. After some initial confusion, Egyptian authorities announced on Friday that they had indeed found wreckage from EgyptAir Flight 804 floating in the ...
NUBA MOUNTAINS, Sudan — “They surrounded us, killed kids and women, burnt the village. We waited until nightfall, and then we escaped to the mountains,” ...
The children wear camo. They practice martial arts. They fire handguns and rifles in sync, as a proud instructor looks on. They burn their Indonesian ...
ABUJA, Nigeria – Last week, British Prime Minister David Cameron was caught on video describing Nigeria and Afghanistan as “fantastically corrupt” and “possibly the two ...
The United Arab Emirates would apparently rather deport women and take their money than let them stand up to cheating husbands. An expatriate living there ...
Early Thursday, EgyptAir Flight 804 disappeared over the eastern Mediterranean Sea while en route from Paris to Cairo, raising immediate fears that the Islamic State ...
Unsafe at any speed. On Tuesday, two Chinese J-11 jet fighters intercepted an American surveillance plane flying over international waters in the South China ...
American commanders are growing concerned that a recent spate of deadly bombings in Baghdad will cause the Iraqi government to lose focus on an upcoming ...
Last weekend, the New York Times published one of what will be many takes on President Barack Obama's legacy as commander in chief. Retroactively shoehorning ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just fired a well-regarded defense minister known for his close ties to Washington and replaced him with one known for ...
Even in retreat from advancing Iraqi forces, who have retaken nearly half the territory seized by terrorists, the Islamic State still leaves a deadly legacy: ...
Barring a bizarre and unforeseen turn of events, next November American voters will have to choose Hillary Rodham Clinton or Donald Trump to be the ...
Kenyans don’t go to the polls for a national election until next year. Opposition protesters are already taking to the streets, however, and so are ...
Speculation is rife that President Barack Obama will make one final stab at putting his mark on the Middle East peace process before he leaves office. ...
Sometime in the 100 years since the Sykes-Picot agreement was signed, invoking its “end” became a thing among commentators, journalists, and analysts of the Middle ...
The U.S. Navy said Thursday that an officer overseeing two boats that mistakenly veered into Iranian waters in January has been relieved of command over ...
The British Empire may have unraveled decades ago, but that apparently hasn’t stopped the queen and her current prime minister from still thinking themselves better ...
Just hours after the Islamic State hit multiple sites in Shiite neighborhoods across Baghdad, killing over 90 civilians, the governor of Kirkuk province in the ...
Iraqi and American officials have for weeks touted successes in pushing back the Islamic State from nearly half of the territory it controls in Iraq. ...
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Saudi Arabia appears to be making plans for life beyond oil. Following hints from Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country on April 25 released its "Vision ...
Things are getting meta for White House Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes. In a profile published last week in the New ...
On the ground. Are American forces in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan? Firefights, special operations raids, bombing runs, artillery strikes, and casualties attest to ...
On April 28, local and Portuguese news outlets reported the discovery of a mass grave in central Mozambique containing some 120 bodies. A hasty inspection ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s quest to consolidate power has claimed one of his closest and highest-profile allies: Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. In his resignation ...
After some of the most intense fighting between Syrian government forces and rebels in months, the United States announced a new cessation of hostilities agreement ...
NAIROBI — Kenyan authorities claim to have foiled a “large-scale” biological terrorist plot by militants linked to the Islamic State (IS), raising fears that the ...
If a well-loved children’s cartoon were to ever epitomize the Islamic State’s boundless appetite for violence, it would be Tom and Jerry. In nearly every ...
In a stinging rebuke, the president of French medical relief agency Medecins Sans Frontieres on Tuesday accused several governments, including the United States, Russia, Saudi ...
Some 40 percent of the world’s rubies lie in one mining concession in Mozambique, where a troubling pattern of violence and death contradicts the claim of “responsibly sourced.”
"Daesh is engaged in a destructive frenzy. Through decapitations and massacres, it annihilates people who don’t embrace its vision of Islam. It also sacks antiquities: ...
These days, Turkish parliamentarians are fighting their legislative battles with fists rather than words. On Monday night, for the second time over the last week, ...
The Egyptian soldiers looked incongruous, armed yet peaceful. The layering of an amateur shot of a Cairo street in upheaval over a traditional Japanese screen ...
Combat. A U.S. servicemember was killed in northern Iraq Tuesday morning, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told reporters while traveling in Stuttgart, Germany. "It is ...
When it comes to Iraq, the world’s attention has largely focused on the military campaign to uproot the Islamic State from its strongholds in Anbar ...
Iraq coming apart. “Iraq is becoming increasingly ungovernable...non-state actors are stronger than the state. The government is paralyzed and corrupt.” That grim assessment from ...
KURSI, Iraq –– It’s been 15 months since the Islamic State was beaten back from the northern reaches of Sinjar Mountain, and still 13-year-old Mustafa Saada ...
Hundreds of protesters stormed Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone Saturday, the first time the safe area had been penetrated by angry Iraqis. Supporters of influential ...