Cameron: Not Certain ‘Jihadi John’ Dead
By LOLITA C. BALDOR A U.S. drone strike targeted a vehicle in Syria believed to be transporting the masked Islamic State militant known as “Jihadi John,” according to American officials.…
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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…
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…
Taiwan-China meeting brings together former Cold War foes
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN and RALPH JENNINGS The presidents of China and Taiwan are meeting this weekend for the first time since the Chinese revolution ended in 1949, with the once-bitter…
Metrojet exec says external impact caused Egypt plane crash
By DMITRY LOVETSKY and NATALIYA VASILYEVA Only an external impact could have caused a Russian plane to dive into the Egyptian desert, killing all 224 people on board, its Russian…
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…
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…