Tag: World

Militant’s sister targeted in French terror probe

Jamey Keaten · May 22, 2014 7:39 pm

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian army soldier walks in front of Aleppo prison in Aleppo, Syria, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Syrian troops backed by airstrikes broke a yearlong rebel siege of a prison in the northern city of Aleppo Thursday, allowing President Bashar Assad's forces to close in on a nearby command center of a coalition of Islamist rebel groups, opposition activists said. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syrian tanks roll into Aleppo prison grounds

Zeina Karam · May 22, 2014 7:31 pm

The US says the UN approves sanctions against al-Qaida-linked terrorist group Boko Haram

Washington Examiner · May 22, 2014 7:28 pm

Friends, Families Look for Nigeria Blast Victims

Washington Examiner · May 22, 2014 7:11 pm

Raw: Heavy Fighting in Ukraine

Washington Examiner · May 22, 2014 7:04 pm

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani wipes his cheek as he speaks during a press conference at a hotel in Shanghai, China, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Rouhani says an agreement on curbing its nuclear program is "very likely" by July despite a snag in talks last week, but said negotiations might also be extended. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

National Security

West says rifts remain over Iran nuke pact

George Jahn · May 22, 2014 6:28 pm

EU elections become platform for austerity foes

David McHugh · May 22, 2014 6:24 pm

FILE - In this file photo taken Friday, May 16, 2014, an Egyptian supporter of presidential candidate Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, the country's former military chief, holds a poster of him in downtown Cairo, Egypt. Only a slight majority of Egyptians look favorably on Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, the former army chief who ousted the elected president and is now a heavy favorite to win next week's presidential elections, according to a poll released Thursday, May 22, by a U.S.-based research center. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

Hope for strongman fuels Egypt’s el-Sissi campaign

SARAH EL DEEB · May 22, 2014 6:23 pm

Energy and Environment

Mexico City residents battle police over water

Mark Stevenson · May 22, 2014 6:10 pm

China's Public Security Minister Guo Shengkun, center, talks with Xinjiang Party Secretary Zhang Chunxian, right, as they visit the site of an explosion in Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang region, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Assailants in two SUVs plowed through shoppers while setting off explosives on a busy street market in China's volatile northwestern region of Xinjiang on Thursday, the local officials said, killing over two dozen people and injuring more than 90. The attack was the bloodiest in a series of violent incidents that Chinese authorities have blamed on radical separatists from the country's Muslim Uighur minority. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

What’s behind rising violence in China’s west?

Christopher Bodeen · May 22, 2014 6:03 pm

Watchdog: Last Syrian chemicals packed up

Washington Examiner · May 22, 2014 5:44 pm

Armed policemen stand guard near the site of an explosion in Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang region, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Assailants in two SUVs plowed through shoppers while setting off explosives on a busy street market in China's volatile northwestern region of Xinjiang on Thursday, the local officials said, killing over two dozen people and injuring more than 90. The attack in the city of Urumqi was the bloodiest in a series of violent incidents that Chinese authorities have blamed on radical separatists from the country's Muslim Uighur minority. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Dozens killed in market attack in northwest China

Didi Tang · May 22, 2014 5:38 pm