Prime Minister hopes for peace with Kurdish rebels
Turkey's prime minister said he hopes this week's spring festival, which is celebrated by Kurds, will herald the start of a peaceful resolution of the ...
Syria claims rebel chemical weapon attack kills 16
Syria's government accused rebels of firing a chemical weapon on Tuesday for the first time in the 2-year-old civil war, calling it the "first act" ...
Danes pull out soldiers from Afghanistan in August
Denmark says it will end combat operations in the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan in August, about six months earlier than planned because the ...
French fighter sent home after arrest in Mali
The Paris prosecutor's office says a Frenchman captured among extremist fighters in northern Mali has been brought to France and placed in custody.
Syrian opposition elects interim prime minister
Syria's opposition coalition early Tuesday elected a little-known American-educated IT manager and Islamic activist to head an interim government to ...
At least 16 killed in northern Nigeria explosion
At least 16 people were killed in an explosion that hit a bus station in Kano in northern Nigeria, a medic said Monday in the latest violence to hit ...
French hostages held by Nigerian sect in new video
A video surfaced Monday showing a man who appeared to be a French hostage held by Islamic extremists with six other family members kidnapped on Feb.
Ex-Guatemala strongman on trial after 30 years
There is no smoking gun in the case files, no direct order from Guatemala's then military dictator to carry out the slaughter of civilians during one ...
Turkish prosecutors seek life term in coup trial
Turkey's state-run news agency says prosecutors are seeking life prison terms for the nation's former army chief and dozens of other officers, ...
Israeli government sends mixed signals on peace
Ahead of the arrival of President Barack Obama on a high-profile Mideast mission, Israel's new government on Monday sent mixed messages about pursuing ...
Report: Israel fires flares over Lebanon
Lebanon's state-run news agency says Israeli warplanes have violated Lebanese airspace. Lebanon's National News Agency says Israeli warplanes dropped ...
Tensions high in Lebanon after assault on clerics
Several hundred demonstrators angry over attacks against Sunni Muslim clerics blocked roads with garbage bins and burning tires in Beirut and other ...
Yemen parties debate new political system
Yemen's politicians, youth, women and intellectuals opened a landmark national dialogue Monday on the future of the transition to democracy, and high ...
Pakistani Taliban withdraw peace talk offer
The Pakistani Taliban on Monday withdrew their offer of holding peace talks with the government, saying that the authorities were not serious about ...
Ocalan says peace talks with Turkey progressing
Many had hoped that imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan would urge thousands of his fighters Monday to obey a cease-fire as a major step ...
US: Congo warlord Ntaganda turns himself in
A Congolese warlord accused of conscripting child soldiers who had lived as an international fugitive for years surrendered to the United States ...
US OK with France, UK arming Syria's rebels
The Obama administration lent its support Monday to British and French plans to arm Syria's rebels, saying it wouldn't stand in the way of any country ...
Several attacks kill 9 people in Iraq
A suicide attacker drove his explosives-laden car into a checkpoint in central Iraq on Monday, killing five people, and attacks elsewhere in the ...
Villagers say Rwandan troops crossed into Congo
Villagers in a town on the Congo-Rwanda border say they saw a half dozen trucks with Rwandan soldiers cross into Congo last week to lend support to ...
German prosecutors: Extremists formed terror group
German federal prosecutors have taken over the investigation of four Islamic extremists alleged to have been plotting to assassinate the leader of a ...
Car bomb explodes near bus in Mogadishu; 7 dead
An explosives-laden car that apparently was targeting a truck full of Somali government officials instead hit a civilian car and exploded, setting a ...
Saddam's specter lives on in Iraqi landmarks
The soaring half domes of the Martyr Monument stand out against the drabness of eastern Baghdad, not far from where Saddam Hussein's feared eldest son ...
Palestinian ends hunger strike in deal
A freed Palestinian prisoner was given a hero's welcome in the Gaza Strip on Sunday evening after ending his hunger strike in an Israeli jail and ...
Egypt vigilantes hang 2 thieves by feet in public
Egyptian vigilantes beat two men accused of stealing a motorized rickshaw on Sunday and then hung them by their feet while some in a watching crowd ...
Email
US
International
India
Россия
Română
Singapore
South Africa
México
Indonesia
Brasileira
