President Barack Obama, now facing the consequences of automatic spending cuts and the complications they raise for his broader domestic agenda, is taking the most specific steps of his administration in an attempt to ensure the election of a Democratic-controlled Congress in two years. ...
It’s a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chugoku no gunkan (中国の軍艦, Chinese warships) in the Higashi Shina Kai (東シナ海, East China Sea) challenged Japan’s Kaijo Jieitai (海上自衛隊, Maritime Self Defense Forces, MSDF) patrols in a manner deemed kyōiteki (脅威的, threatening). And on Feb. ...
Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front.
SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., $49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, ...
Manchester United's Shinji Kagawa is back with a bang, becoming the first Asian player to score a hat trick in the English Premier League.
Moktar Belmoktar, the terrorist who orchestrated the attack on a natural gas plant in Algeria that left 36 foreigners dead, including 10 Japanese, is killed in northern Mali.
Al-Qaida's top commander in Mali is reportedly killed, signaling a significant blow to the Islamist insurgents battling a French-led intervention in the African country.
A video posted online Monday apparently shows seven French hostages kidnapped from northern Cameroon, with a masked militant claiming the radical Islamic group Boko Haram from neighboring Nigeria holds them. The video, posted to YouTube and mentioned on a jihadist website, shows one of ...
Tucked under a pile of papers and trash was a confidential letter spelling out the terrorist network’s strategy to conquer northern Mali and reflecting internal discord over how to rule the region.
French-led forces have killed hundreds of militants in fighting to reclaim northern Mali and, with the rebels’ last bastion secured, France said Tuesday it will begin withdrawing troops in March. French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the 26-day military intervention had killed “several ...
For eight days after the Islamists set fire to one of the world’s most precious collections of ancient manuscripts, the alarm inside the building blared. It was an eerie, repetitive beeping, a cry from the innards of the injured library that echoed around the ...
As France’s airstrikes in Mali push back Islamist militants, the challenge now is to secure peace in the arid north by enlisting the support of nomadic Tuaregs whose bid for a separate homeland sparked the yearlong crisis. Talks with the Tuaregs are considered crucial ...
France said it carried out major airstrikes Sunday near Kidal, the last bastion of armed extremists chased from Mali’s desert north in a lightning French-led offensive, after a whirlwind visit by President Francois Hollande. An army spokesman said 30 warplanes had bombed training and ...
Islamist extremists damaged or stole only a limited number of manuscripts in Timbuktu in Mali before they fled the fabled desert city, a South African university said Wednesday. People in the north Malian city who have knowledge of the documents reported that there was ...
The U.S. military plans to set up a base for drones in northwest Africa to bolster surveillance of al-Qaida’s affiliate in the region and allied Islamist extremists, a U.S. official said Monday. The base for the robotic, unmanned aircraft would likely be located in ...
French-led forces received a hero’s welcome as they entered Mali’s fabled desert city of Timbuktu but not before fleeing Islamists torched a building housing priceless ancient manuscripts. Residents of the ancient city on the edge of the Sahara desert erupted in joy as French ...
French-led troops surrounded Mali’s fabled desert city of Timbuktu on Monday after seizing its airport in a lightning advance against Islamists who have been driven from key northern strongholds. French paratroopers swooped in to block any fleeing Islamists while ground troops coming from the ...
