American, Italian hostages killed in US drone strike
By JULIE PACE An American and an Italian held hostage by al-Qaida, as well as two Americans working with the terror group, were inadvertently killed by CIA drone strikes early…
Counterterrorism
Obama: US must resist urge to ‘overreach” abroad
By JULIE PACE President Barack Obama, outlining a new national security blueprint for his last two years in office, warned against American “overreach” abroad Friday, even as he cast the…
Kerry in Nigeria to warn against postelection violence
In a rare high-level visit to Africa’s most populous country, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday urged Nigeria’s leading presidential candidates to refrain from fomenting violence after next…
Yemen president resigns under pressure from rebels
Yemen’s president resigned Thursday, saying he had reached a “deadlock” in talks with Shiite rebels who rule the capital and had confined him to his home. His resignation raised fears…
5 Chechens arrested in France, including 1 with explosives
By LORI HINNANT and SYLVIE CORBET Five ethnic Chechens from Russia have been arrested in southern France, including one with a cache of explosives, a local mayor said Tuesday as…
5 Chechens arrested in France, including 1 with explosives
By SYLVIE CORBET and LORI HINNANT Five Russians have been arrested in southern France, including one with a cache of explosives, a local mayor said Tuesday as four other men…
To counter terror, Europe’s police reconsider their arms
By LORI HINNANT One was a young policewoman, unarmed on the outskirts of Paris and felled by an assault rifle. Her partner, also without weapons, could do nothing to stop…
Heavy clashes as Shiite rebels seize Yemen state media
By AHMED AL-HAJ Heavy clashes erupted near the presidential palace in Yemen’s capital Sanaa on Monday as Shiite rebels battled soldiers and seized control of state-run media in a move…