
Attack on Iraqi Justice Ministry kills 24
Attackers unleashed a carefully planned assault with car bombs and gunmen disguised as police on the Iraqi Justice Ministry on Thursday, killing at ...

Khmer Rouge's Ieng Sary dies amid genocide trial
Ieng Sary, who co-founded the communist Khmer Rouge regime responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians in the 1970s, and who ...
US: Islamic extremists move between Nigeria, Mali
Islamic extremists continue to move freely between Nigeria and northern Mali, despite the ongoing French military operation there against them, the ...
France: April UN vote on Mali peacekeepers
France's foreign minister is pushing for a U.N. vote next month to approve peacekeepers for the West African country of Mali. The peacekeepers would ...
China maintains hard line on ties with Vatican
China congratulated former Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio on Thursday on his election as pope, but said establishing formal relations would depend ...
Report: Iran test-fires short-range missiles
Iranian media say the military has test-fired several short-range missiles, including the type Palestinian militant Hamas group used to attack Tel ...
Wounded Iranian dies in Iraq, says group in exile
A spokesman says a member of an Iranian opposition group exiled in Iraq has died of injuries sustained in an attack last month on their camp near ...

Rights groups: Syrian rebels often kill captives
Syrian rebels routinely kill captured soldiers and suspected regime informers, human rights monitors said Thursday, warning of mounting war crimes ...

Khmer Rouge's Ieng Sary dies during genocide trial
Ieng Sary, who co-founded the brutal Khmer Rouge movement in 1970s, was its public face abroad and decades later became one of its few leaders to be ...
US suspect in Afghan massacre to get sanity review
A U.S. soldier charged with killing 16 Afghan civilians after slipping away from his base will undergo a court-ordered review of his sanity this ...

Commander encouraged by anti-Taliban uprising
Villagers in an area of southern Afghanistan that was the birthplace of the Taliban movement two decades ago have staged a first-of-its-kind uprising ...

AP EXCLUSIVE: Police blamed in Egypt revolt deaths
The highest-level inquiry into the deaths of nearly 900 protesters in Egypt's uprising has concluded that police were behind nearly all the killings ...
US yet to provide meals, medicine to Syrian rebels
The Obama administration said Wednesday it has yet to begin shipping meals and medical supplies to Syria's armed opposition, a key pledge of Secretary ...

Mortar shells in Damascus kill 3, wound 50
Mortar shells struck a residential area in central Syria Wednesday, killing three people and wounding more than 50, including a number of women and ...

Russia: Arming Syria rebels would breach int'l law
Russia's foreign minister warned Thursday that arming Syria's rebels would be a breach of international law, hitting back at recent suggestions for ...

German authorities move against Islamic extremists
German authorities banned three ultraconservative Islamic groups Wednesday and separately announced they had foiled a suspected assassination attempt ...
Bombing hits sports event in Afghanistan, 7 killed
A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of Afghans watching the traditional sport of buzkashi on Wednesday, killing seven people in the north of ...

Kurdish rebels fighting Turkey release 8 captives
Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq freed eight captured Turkish soldiers and officials on Wednesday as part of peace efforts between Turkey and the ...
Central African rebels take control of 2 towns
Rebels who signed a peace deal with the government two months ago, seized control of two towns in the southeast of Central African Republic, ...
Tribesmen stone Pakistani soldier to death
Tribesmen tied a Pakistani soldier to the hood of a car and stoned him to death in the country's restive northwest for allegedly having a romantic ...
Croatia orders withdrawal of its troops from Golan
Croatia's parliament has approved the withdrawal of some 100 peacekeeping troops from the Golan Heights amid fears they could be targeted by Syrian ...
EU representative killed in rocket attack in Syria
A European Union staff member has been killed in a rocket attack near Damascus, the Syrian capital, the EU announced Wednesday. Ahmad Shihadeh, a ...