PAKISTANI TALIBAN, ARMY EXCHANGE PRISONERS
By ISHTIAQ MAHSUD FILE – In this Wednesday, July 31, 2002, Taliban supporter Muhammad Jaffer, right, is received by his unidentified relatives after his release from the Kot Lakhpat Jail…
Peace treaties
FILIPINO REBELS HOLD HOSTAGES AS HUMAN SHIELDS
By BULLIT MARQUEZ Government troops take their positions as about 200 Muslim rebels, enraged by a broken peace deal with the Philippine government, held scores of hostages as human shields…
ISRAEL QUIETLY MAINTAINS TIES WITH EGYPTIAN ARMY
By JOSEF FEDERMAN FILE – In this file photo taken Friday, Aug. 16, 2013, an Egyptian Army soldier takes his position on top of an armored vehicle while guarding an…
US: MIDEAST DEAL IN 9 MONTHS TARGET, NOT DEADLINE
A Palestinian villager works on his land that overlooks the Israeli settlement of Mattityahu, background, in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah, Wednesday, July 31, 2013. Pressing ahead…
ISRAEL TO VOTE ON FREEING PALESTINIAN PRISONERS
By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH and KARIN LAUB In this Friday, July 26, 2013, photo, Issa Masoud, 75, father of Omar, 40, who was arrested in May 1993 for killing an Israeli…
OFFICIALS: KERRY TO TRAVEL TO MIDEAST THIS WEEKEND
By BRADLEY KLAPPER U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at a news conference with South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-Se, not pictured, at the State Department in Washington, on…
ANALYSIS: NKOREA THREAT MAY BE MORE BARK THAN BITE
By JEAN H. LEE University students punch the air as they march through Kim Il Sung Square in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, March 29, 2013. Tens of thousands of…
C. AFRICAN REPUBLIC PRESIDENT FLEES TO CAMEROON
By EMMANUEL TUMANJONG and RUKMINI CALLIMACHI Foto del 2 de enero del 2013 de un soldado de Chad que apoya al presidente de la República Centroafricana Francois Bozize, cerca de…