The Turkish government detained 31 people, including a former member of Parliament, on Tuesday as part of a probe into alleged links between mainstream Kurdish activists and the separatist militants in the southeast. The suspects were grabbed in dawn raids across the...
A Shi'ite militia that fought U.S. troops in Iraq said Tuesday it will not lay down its arms immediately due to concerns about the remaining American presence and an unstable Iraqi government. The U.S. has approximately 17,000 personnel based at its embassy in...
A lawyer for Bradley Manning, who leaked classified information to WikiLeaks, wants to question Secretary of State Hillary Clinton before the trial. David Coombs included a request sent to Army officials that Clinton serve as a witness and be questioned for...
Opposition groups in Yemen have accused contested President Ali Abdullah Saleh of allowing al-Qaeda militants to seize the town of Radaa, who later broke into its jail and freed more than 200 prisoners. About 250 militants stormed Radaa, according to reports on the...
Eritrea did not send weapons to the Somali militant group al-Shabab late last year, a preliminary U.N. report has found after months of diplomatic outbursts and sanctions against the country. Some, including Kenya and its ally, the United States, accused Eritrea in...
While the Obama administration has stuck to its promise of immunizing Bush administration officials who condoned and conducted torture, other countries have not signed on to that sort of intransigence. A Spanish judge in Madrid, Judge Pablo Rafael Ruz Gutierrez,...
U.S. military officials have told CNN that Navy and Coast Guard vessels in the Persian Gulf have recently been "harassed" by Iranian vessels twice earlier this month. The incidents occurred on January 6, according to an anonymous senior U.S. military official. In the...
The Obama administration's failure to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is part of what's preventing substantive negotiations with the Afghan Taliban. The leaders of the insurgency against the U.S. war in Afghanistan have pushed a Gitmo prisoner...
The Pentagon has quietly surged combat troops and warships in U.S. bases throughout the Middle East after the top American commander in the region warned that he needed additional forces to counter rising potential threats, including Iran. Marine Corps Gen. James...
Iran said on Saturday it has evidence that the latest assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist was orchestrated, at least in part, by the Washington and the CIA. The Iranian nuclear scientist, 32-year old Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, was killed on Tuesday by a magnetic...
