Israel: Palestinian shot, killed 2 Israelis in the West Bank
By NEBI QENA A Palestinian man shot and killed two Israelis and wounded a teenager as they were driving in the West Bank on Friday, Israeli officials said, the latest…
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Jordan: 3 killed, including 2 Americans, in police shooting
By OMAR AKOUR A Jordanian policeman opened fire Monday on foreign trainers at a police training compound, killing two Americans and a South African before being shot dead, the government…
France deploying aircraft carrier to help fight against IS
France will deploy an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf to assist the fight against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. French President Francois Hollande announced his decision…
Elder Bush criticizes Cheney, Rumsfeld in new biography
By NANCY BENAC In a blistering critique, former President George H.W. Bush says onetime Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld “served the president badly” when George W. Bush was in the White…
Analysis: Russian goals in Syria defined by timing
By STEVEN R. HURST There’s much speculation about Russian motives for intervening in Syria. The root answer lies in the timing. Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin boss, finally decided Syrian leader…
Egypt: Official says doomed Russian plane was in good shape
By BRIAN ROHAN and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV An Egyptian ground service official who carried out a pre-flight inspection of the Russian passenger plane that crashed in the Sinai Peninsula said Sunday…
Analysis: Obama crosses own red line with Syrian deployment
By JULIE PACE Even when President Barack Obama sent U.S. troops back to Iraq and ordered the military to stay in Afghanistan, he insisted Syria would remain off limits for…
Egypt says Russian aircraft crashes in Sinai, no survivors
By BRIAN ROHAN and MERRIT KENNEDY A Russian aircraft carrying 224 people, including 17 children, crashed Saturday in a remote mountainous region in the Sinai Peninsula about 20 minutes after…