2 Israeli Soldiers Wounded by Gun and Missile Fire From Egypt
By ISABEL KERSHNER
The attack came from the rugged desert terrain of the Sinai Peninsula, where Islamic militants have been battling Egyptian forces.
The Pentagon kept silent as munitions left over from Saddam Hussein’s war with Iran found new targets from 2004 to 2011: American and Iraqi troops.
The attack came from the rugged desert terrain of the Sinai Peninsula, where Islamic militants have been battling Egyptian forces.
Four former Blackwater Worldwide security contractors were convicted Wednesday on charges stemming from a deadly 2007 shooting in Iraq.
David Cohen, a Treasury under secretary, discusses the battle to choke off the flow of illicit revenue to the Islamic State.
A senior United Nations official said on Tuesday that the Islamic State had threatened to exterminate minority Yazidis in Iraq by killing them if they refused to convert to Islam.
Turkey, in an apparent shift, said that it would facilitate the movement of Iraqi Kurdish forces to the embattled Syrian city of Kobani to join the battle against militants.
The police arrested several men following episodes that appear connected to a new law on “badly veiled” women.
A flurry of attacks included a quadruple car bombing near two of the holiest shrines in Shiite Islam, killing 40, officials said.
Riding the train feels like an act of nostalgia, representing connection in a place where people are increasingly detached from one another.
American troops gradually found and ultimately suffered from the remnants of long-abandoned programs, built in close collaboration with the West.
A 2004 report by the Iraq Survey Group and presented by Charles A. Duelfer, an adviser to the director of central intelligence and a former United Nations’ inspection official, acknowledged that chemical weapons were turning up in Iraq, and predicted that troops would find more.
Jawdat Khoudary, an entrepreneur and collector of art and antiquities, keeps Gaza's rich history available to the public at the Gaza Museum of Archeology.
Religious fervor has driven some to protect a once-bustling shrine outside of Damascus, while others see it as a target.
The reality behind the deadly attack on American outposts in Libya is murkier and more complex than initially believed.
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The Islamic Republic is the greatest threat to global security; it must not be allowed to have nuclear weapons.
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