Cease-fire brings relative quiet to Syria despite breaches
By BASSEM MROUE A cease-fire brought relative quiet to parts of Syria for the first time in years on Saturday, offering civilians rare respite from Russian and Syrian government airstrikes…
Military and defense
Nuke test: The missile is the message _ the Pentagon hopes
By ROBERT BURNS VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, California (AP) — Like a giant pen stroke in the sky, an unarmed Minuteman 3 nuclear missile roared out of its underground bunker…
Israel says Iran building terror network in Europe, US
By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Israel’s defense minister on Wednesday accused Iran of building an international terror network that includes “sleeper cells” that are stockpiling arms, intelligence and operatives in order to…
Obama: Guantanamo Bay undermines security, must be closed
By LOLITA C. BALDOR and KATHLEEN HENNESSEY President Barack Obama on Tuesday vowed to “once and for all” close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and transfer the most…
Nigeria: People detained by military disappear in northeast
First come the whispers, then accusations loud enough to raise alarms throughout Nigeria’s northeastern villages ravaged by extremist violence. Next, people accused of being Boko Haram are rounded up, sometimes…
Pentagon says US bombed IS training camp in Libya
By ROBERT BURNS and MAGGIE MICHAEL American F-15E fighter-bombers struck an Islamic State training camp in rural Libya near the Tunisian border Friday, killing dozens, probably including an IS operative…
Russia denies striking charity’s hospital in Syria
By BASSEM MROUE and LYNN BERRY Russia on Tuesday denied its warplanes carried out strikes on a Syrian hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders that killed at least nine people,…
Obama administration opening 2-front campaign on Syria
By MATTHEW LEE The Obama administration opened a two-front campaign on Syria on Thursday with a push to end one war there and step up another. The United States, Russia…