By Associated Press
Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a newspaper interview Saturday he won’t step down and will instead “face the storm,” raising new doubts about a U.S-Russian effort to get Assad and his opponents to negotiate an end to the country’s civil war. Published May 18, 2013 Comments
By Associated Press
Libyan officials say explosions went off in the capital Tripoli and the restive eastern city of Benghazi, but no casualties were reported. Published May 18, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Russia has sent more than a dozen war ships to patrol the waters near Syria, U.S. military spokesmen said on Friday. Published May 17, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
The U.S. military has a new set of orders in its pursuit of the terrorists who are guilty of killing four Americans in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi: Capture or kill. Published May 17, 2013 Comments
By Associated Press
Religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked legislation on Saturday aimed at strengthening provisions for women’s freedoms, arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles and encourage disobedience. Published May 18, 2013 Comments
By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press
Suspected thieves ripped out a small safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with about $1 million worth of jewelry inside, a French police official said Friday. Published May 17, 2013 Comments
By Associated Press
North Korea fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters on Saturday, a South Korean official said. It routinely tests such missiles, but the latest launches came during a period of tentative diplomacy aimed at easing tensions. Published May 18, 2013 Comments
By Sinan Salaheddin - Associated Press
Car bombs struck Shiite neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital and a northern city on Thursday, killing 16 people, while gunmen in Baghdad shot dead the brother of a Sunni lawmaker, officials said. Published May 16, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
For the second time in a week, Nigerian authorities on Wednesday discovered a baby factory and rescued pregnant teens from the forced selling of their newborns. Published May 15, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Kenneth Bae, the American sentenced to hard labor in North Korea for supposed hostile acts against the state, headed off to prison on Wednesday, the start of his 15-year term. Published May 15, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Putting Iran in charge of the four-week U.N. Conference on Disarmament that kicks off on May 27 is "like putting Jack the Ripper in charge of a women's shelter," says Hillel Neuer, the head of the Geneva-based advocacy group U.N. Watch in a Ynet report. Published May 15, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Russia is hoping to topple Google as the search engine of choice in Vietnam with its rival "Coc Coc," called "Knock Knock" in English. Published May 15, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Michael McFaul, the U.S. ambassador to Russia, was summoned Wednesday by the nation's foreign ministry for questioning about a spy debacle that heated this week. Published May 15, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Syrian rebel fighters launched a massive attack Wednesday on the main prison in Aleppo, hoping to free hundreds of inmates who oppose President Bashar Assad's regime. Published May 15, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
New CPR technology put to the test at an Australian hospital has passed with flying colors after a man — clinically dead for 40 minutes — was brought back to life. And he later was discharged with a clean bill of health, absent any disability. Published May 15, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Kazakhstan has become a ground zero of sorts for supporters of Boston bombing suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Published May 15, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Good thing it wasn't a cremation. A Zimbabwean man on his way to being buried — in the coffin, about to be lowered into the cemetery burial plot — shocked family and friends when he suddenly came to life. Published May 15, 2013
By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times
Democrats appeared eager Wednesday to poke holes in the seriousness of President Obama's vow to deter Iran from developing a nuclear warhead, raising tough questions about whether the White House is squeezing hard enough on sanctions against the Islamic Republic's economy. Published May 15, 2013
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
Three of al Qaeda's major websites for recruiting terrorists and communicating propaganda were shut down recently in an apparent case of counterterrorism hacking or possibly as a result of internal disputes among terrorists. Published May 15, 2013
By Tim Devaney - The Washington Times
A top Greek official on Wednesday warned of a "widening gap" in the eurozone that separates financially stable countries such as Germany from their southern European partners that are struggling to keep up. Published May 15, 2013
By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a meeting Thursday at the White House, is expected to urge President Obama to arm the Syrian opposition and enforce a "no-fly" zone in an effort to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime. Published May 15, 2013
By Shaun Waterman and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times
Under growing pressure, the White House on Wednesday released emails that showed the talking points crafted to explain the deadly terrorist attack in Benghazi last year were changed at the behest of a State Department worried about political fallout. Published May 15, 2013
