AP A car bomb exploded outside a mosque Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding another 141 in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi — the third mass-casualty attack on the minority sect in the country this ...
It's a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chinese warships in the East China Sea challenged Japan's Maritime Self Defense Forces patrols in a manner deemed threatening. And on Feb. 12 came North Korea's nuclear test.
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, ...
Kenta Maeda shook off worries about his form with five shutout innings as Japan beat China 5-2 in first-round Pool A of the World Baseball Classic on Sunday at Fukuoka Dome. Japan improved to 2-0 following a tough win over Brazil in Saturday evening’s ...
The U.S. Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden broke his silence Monday, recounting the night he shot the al-Qaida leader three times and the financial anxiety he now faces as an unemployed civilian. The commando kept his identity secret in the Esquire magazine ...
A defense lawyer at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba said Monday that there is “overwhelming circumstantial evidence” that the U.S. government is listening to privileged communications between high-value detainees accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and their lawyers. Cheryl Bormann, who represents ...
After years of fighting the government from hidden jungle bases in the southern Philippines, an al-Qaida-linked militant group is facing a new adversary: fellow Muslim insurgents who can match their guerrilla battle tactics and are eager to regain their lost stature by fighting the ...
Watching the events in Tunisia, where a leading anti-Islamist politician was shot to death this past week, members of Egypt’s liberal opposition are fearfully asking whether it could it happen in their country too. Their fears of a renegade Islamist attack on any of ...
Senior members of the Obama administration reportedly want to put the mastermind of the terrorist attack on an Algerian gas facility on a secret "kill" list.
The U.S. military is determined to position small, quick reaction forces closer to global crises after the rapid assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya last September kept its forces from responding in time to save four Americans. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and ...
Nominated to head the CIA, John Brennan told a protest-disrupted Senate confirmation hearing Thursday the United States employs drone strikes only as a deterrent against imminent terrorist threats, not as punishment for previous attacks, firmly defending the controversial attacks, which have targeted Americans as ...
The United States is considering re-designating North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism in the event Pyongyang conducts another nuclear test.
Washington AFP-JIJI In a reversal, President Barack Obama will hand lawmakers classified documents outlining the legal justification for drone strikes that kill U.S. citizens abroad who are conspiring with al-Qaida. An administration official disclosed the move Wednesday on the eve of a Senate hearing ...
Bulgaria blamed Hezbollah on Tuesday for a July 2012 bomb attack that killed five Israeli tourists, leading to renewed calls on the European Union to declare the Lebanese movement a terrorist organization. “What we can make as a justified conclusion is that the two ...
Fifty-four foreign governments assisted the CIA in a global campaign that included harsh interrogations of suspects, a rights advocacy group said Tuesday as it pressed for greater accountability. The report by the George Soros-backed network of Open Society Foundations marks the most comprehensive list ...
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 ...
