Libya's interim government on Saturday announced a ceasefire, as six days of deadly tribal clashes that cost more than 150 lives finally calmed and another episode of carnage resulting from the NATO-backed regime change petered out. "We haven't slept since yesterday....
Islamist militants on Saturday attacked a military checkpoint in southern Yemen, killing up to 28 Yemeni soldiers, according to officials and a statement from an al-Qaeda linked group. The militant group Ansar al-Sharia (Partisans of Islamic Law) claimed...
Even as Syria claims the insurgency to topple Bashar al-Assad's regime is over, the army continued shelling opposition areas on Saturday and rebel fighters said they would not cease fire until tanks, artillery and heavy weapons are withdrawn. "The battle to topple the...
Former U.S. diplomat and leading neoconservative John Bolton alleged Thursday that the Obama administration leaked secret information about Israel's plans to attack Iran in order to foil those plans and avoid a war. Bolton was referring specifically to an article in...
Osama bin Laden's youngest wife has revealed that the al-Qaeda leader was not holed up in caves along the Afghan-Paksitan border, but rather moved from house to house inside Pakistan and even fathered up to four children during that time. According to a police report...
The lawyer defending the U.S. soldier accused of murdering 17 Afghan civilians said on Friday U.S. authorities are blocking his ability to investigate the incident. "We are facing an almost complete information blackout from the government which is having a...
Child witnesses to the massacre of 17 Afghan civilians by Staff Sgt. Robert Bales say there was more than one U.S. soldier party to the crime, contradicting the story told by the Pentagon. Yalda Hakim, a journalist for SBS Dateline in Australia, was born in...
The head of the U.S. Energy Information Administration on Thursday dismissed the idea that a "quick fix" could reduce U.S. gasoline prices, saying that rising demand and short supply resulting from sanctions on Iran's oil sector are driving up prices. EIA Acting...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said he will commit to the UN plan to end the violence so long as the armed opposition halt their attacks and international powers stop aiding them. The plan brokered by UN envoy Kofi Annan calls for a total cease-fire, withdrawal...
Leaders at the Arab League Summit in Iraq on Thursday endorsed the UN envoy Kofi Annan's plan to end the violence in Syria, with Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki warning that arming either side in Syria would lead to a "proxy war." Fewer than half the Arab...
