Watchdog: Syria destroyed chemical arms equipment
By BASSEM MROUE FILE – In this photo released Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013, by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, samples brought back by the U.N. chemical weapons…
Middle East
Iraqi PM: US aid needed to battle al-Qaida
By LARA JAKES Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, center, walks with the House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking Democrat Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., right, and the committee’s chairman Rep. Ed Royce,…
IRAN-UN NUKE TALKS ADVANCE, NEW ROUND NOV. 11
By GEORGE JAHN Iran’s Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Reza Najafi, left, and IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards Tero Tapio Varjoranta,…
EGYPT JUDGES RESIGN FROM TRIAL OF ISLAMIST LEADERS
By MAGGIE MICHAEL FILE – In this Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010 file photo, newly elected leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Mohammed Badie stands in front of the group’s logo during…
CHEMICAL WEAPONS INSPECTORS IN SYRIA MISS DEADLINE
By MIKE CORDER and RYAN LUCAS U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, center right, and Deputy Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad arrive to a hotel surrounded by security Monday, Oct. 28,…
NSA SPYING THREATENS TO HAMPER US FOREIGN POLICY
By DEB RIECHMANN Demonstrators rally near the U.S. Capitol in Washington to demand that Congress investigate the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance programs Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013. ( AP Photo/Jose…
GROUPS ACC– USE EGYPT SATIRIST OF DEFAMING MILITARY
By SARAH EL DEEB FILE – In this Sunday, March 31, 2013 file photo, a bodyguard secures popular Egyptian television satirist Bassem Youssef, who has come to be known as…
NSA SPYING THREATENS TO HAMPER US FOREIGN POLICY
By DEB RIECHMANN FILE – In this image made from video released by WikiLeaks on Oct. 11, 2013, former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden, center, receives the Sam…