Former Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan warned in an interview that will air on Sunday, that military intervention in Syria by the major powers will not work and "will make the situation much worse." On his CNN show, Fareed Zakaria asked Annan, who...
The United States and Iran have agreed for the first time to one-on-one negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, Obama administration officials tell The New York Times, set to take place immediately following the US presidential elections. Top Iranian officials have...
The Turkish military has fired on Syria 87 times in recent weeks, killing 12 Syrian soldiers and destroying several tanks, supposedly in retaliation for Syrian shells and mortars landing across the border into Turkish territory. Turkey has been firing on Syria ever...
Al-Qaeda "is attempting a comeback in Afghanistan's mountainous east," according to the Associated Press, in yet another example of how 11 years of war have failed to accomplish its most basic aims. The news that elements of al-Qaeda, notably, distinct from the...
An Afghan police officer and cook poisoned Afghan security forces at a checkpoint in an attack coordinated with insurgent militants on Saturday. The police officer and cook worked with outside insurgents, tampering the food of their colleagues, which killed two fellow...
Israeli navy commandos on Saturday seized a ship headed to the Gaza Strip carrying about 30 pro-Palestinian activists as it attempted to break Israel's harsh blockade of the impoverished territory. Israeli officials said that once the ship refused to alter its course,...
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