One night last week, Islamic State militants in an SUV with tinted windows pulled up at the home of a former Iraqi Army officer, one of the men they see as an obstacle to their goal of establishing a caliphate from Iraq to the Mediterranean. As the retired major general ...
As a measure of how politically fraught President Barack Obama’s Texas trip is Wednesday, Republican Gov. Rick Perry reluctantly agreed ...
Republicans have chosen the rust-belt city of Cleveland, Ohio, as the site for their presidential nominating convention in 2016, party ...
Ukraine’s government kept up military pressure against pro-Russian rebels on Tuesday, threatening them with an “nasty surprise,” but the militants said they were preparing to fight back after losing their main stronghold. President Petro Poroshenko, drawing confidence from the fall of the rebel bastion ...
The U.S. Air Force asserts with pride that America’s nuclear missile system is safe and secure. Designed to counter the now-defunct Soviet Union more than 40 years ago, none has ever been used in combat or launched accidentally. But it also admits there is ...
Israel on Tuesday launched its largest offensive in the Gaza Strip in nearly two years, carrying out a blistering aerial assault on scores of targets and killing 25 people in what officials called an open-ended operation aimed at ending weeks of heavy rocket fire. ...
President Barack Obama on Tuesday requested $3.7 billion in emergency funding from Congress to help cope with a surge of unaccompanied child immigrants from Central America. Obama said the funds — a far higher sum than he signaled he would request late last month ...
A grave, freshly dug and adorned with pebbles, is the modest tribute to one more sacrifice in the long history of struggle for an independent Kurdish state. Hogir Fathi was looking forward to home leave in his village in autonomous Kurdistan when the 24-year-old, ...
Former Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze, who helped end the Cold War as the Soviet Union’s last foreign minister, died Monday aged 86, with tributes pouring in from friends and foes. Shevardnadze was a controversial figure praised for his role in negotiating a bloodless end ...
Three weeks before Ukraine’s army forced rebel fighters out of the strategic eastern city of Slaviansk, their commander made a desperate plea for military help from Russia. “A week will pass, two, three, maybe a month, and the rebellion’s best fighters will be bled ...
Afghan officials released preliminary election results Monday showing former Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai well in the lead for the presidency but said no winner could be declared because millions of ballots were being audited for fraud. The announcement came as Ahmadzai is locked ...
After Ukrainian forces’ seizure of a key rebel stronghold in the east, the major cities of Donetsk and Luhansk could be the next focus of major fighting. Three bridges on roads leading to Donetsk were blown up Monday — possibly to hinder military movements, ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday that allegations that a German man worked as a double agent for U.S. intelligence were serious and, if true, were a clear contradiction of what cooperation between partners is supposed to be about. The case risks further straining ...
In a country torn between Russia and western Europe, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s decision to resume an offensive against pro-Moscow rebels has carefully ignored both neighbors to show an ear acutely tuned to Ukrainian domestic politics. Telephone diplomacy involving the leaders of Germany, France ...
The papers spent years hidden in a milk churn beneath a Russian dacha and read like an encyclopedia of Cold War espionage. Original documents from one of the biggest intelligence leaks in history — a who’s who of Soviet spying — were released Monday ...
