Tag: World

Drone kills 5 militants in Yemen

Ahmed AlHaj · June 14, 2014 12:52 pm

China investigates top official for alleged graft

Washington Examiner · June 14, 2014 12:27 pm

German president: don’t always rule out military

Washington Examiner · June 14, 2014 11:04 am

In this undated photo made available, Wednesday, June 11, 2014, by Philippine National Police in Manila, Philippines, Khair Mundos, left, a top commander of the Abu Sayyaf extremist group who is on the U.S. list of most-wanted terrorists and has once acknowledged receiving al-Qaida funds to finance local bombings, poses with his comrades while training at their camp on Mindanao island in southern Philippines. Philippine security officials said Mundos was arrested in a slum community near Manila's international airport but it was not immediately clear why he was in the capital. The military and police have been hunting him for his alleged involvement in bombings and kidnappings. (AP Photo/Philippine National Police)

Correction: Philippine terror suspect story

Washington Examiner · June 14, 2014 11:03 am

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani gestures as he speaks during a press conference in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 14, 2014. Rouhani says the international sanctions regime has crumbled and will not be rebuilt even if Iran and world powers fail to reach a final nuclear deal by a July 20 deadline. Iran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany reached an interim deal in November that limited Iran's uranium enrichment program in exchange for the easing of some sanctions. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran says no return to past if nuclear talks fail

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · June 14, 2014 10:51 am

Kurdish security forces deploy in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, June 13, 2014. Iraqi officials say al-Qaida-inspired militants who this week seized much of the country's Sunni heartland have pushed into an ethnically mixed province northeast of Baghdad, capturing two towns there. The writing on the metal shutters at left advertises a shop for sale. (AP Photo/ Emad Matti)

Kurds seize disputed oil hub amid Iraq chaos

DIAA HADIDEMAD MATTI · June 14, 2014 10:32 am

Raw: Kurds Clash With ISIL in Iraq

Washington Examiner · June 14, 2014 9:38 am

ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY JUNE 15 2014 TO GO WITH STORY WWI-THE GREAT WAR -In this Thursday, April 24, 2014 photo, Kaylene Biggs, great-granddaughter of World War I Australian soldier Andrew Bayne, places a wooden cross with a poppy and a message on the grave at Westhof Farm Commonwealth Cemetery in Nieuwkerke, Belgium on Thursday, April 24, 2014. Bayne's grave lies among the 131 Commonwealth soldiers and a handful of German soldiers in this small cemetery surrounded by a landscape still scarred by countless bomb craters, rusting gas shells, bunkers and trenches. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

National Security

Soldier’s story shows tragedy of World War I

Raf Casert · June 14, 2014 9:37 am

In this picture taken on Wednesday, June 11, 2014, Afghanistan's presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah listens during his last campaign rally in Kabul, Afghanistan. Abdullah, a 53-year-old former foreign minister and former aide to a famed warlord during the Afghan anti-Soviet guerrilla campaign, was the runner-up in the 2009 disputed elections that were won by Karzai. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

A look at the 2 Afghan presidential hopefuls

The Associated Press · June 14, 2014 9:34 am

FILE - People listen to a session of the 220th General Assembly (2012) of the Presbyterian Church (USA) on in this July 5, 2012 file photo taken in Pittsburgh. The Presbyterian General Assembly, meeting in Detroit June 14-21, 2014, will consider withdrawing its investments from some companies whose products are used by the Israeli government in the Palestinian territories. Divestment advocates were narrowly outmaneuvered at the last Presbyterian convention in 2012, losing a crucial ballot by just two votes. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Presbyterians in key moment on Israel, divestment

Rachel Zoll · June 14, 2014 6:40 am

Official: moderate 6.0 earthquake rocks Pakistan

Washington Examiner · June 14, 2014 5:26 am

Ukrainian defense ministry: Rebels down large military transport plane in country’s east

Washington Examiner · June 14, 2014 4:39 am