Middle East
Iraqi militants post photos of alleged mass executions
Islamist militants in Iraq have boasted of slaughtering dozens of Iraqi soldiers captured in the fighting which has consumed the country in ...Colombia votes in cliffhanger presidential poll
Colombians pick a new president on Sunday in a tight runoff election fought over whether peace talks with leftist guerrillas or a ...Israeli military arrests 80 Palestinians in search for missing teens
Israel\'s military says it has arrested 80 Palestinians in the West Bank, including members of the militant group Hamas, in an effort ...U.S. sends aircraft carrier to Persian Gulf
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered an aircraft carrier moved into the Gulf on Saturday, readying it in case Washington decides to ...Drone strikes kill five suspected militants in Yemen
A drone strike killed five suspected al Qaeda militants in Yemen late on Friday, a local official and a tribal source told ...Iraqi Shia clerics issue call to arms to fight militants
Iraq’s senior Shiite cleric has urged his followers to take up arms in the face of a Sunni insurgency that has overrun ...Obama considering all options as Iraq erupts in violence
U.S. President Barack Obama has said his government is looking at "all options" to help Iraq fight Islamist militants who have captured the ...Jerusalem Palestinians strike in support of prisoners
Shops were shuttered in East Jerusalem on Thursday in solidarity with scores of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike to protest their ongoing ...Iraq militants push towards Baghdad after seizing 2 cities
Militant Islamists seized more territory in northern Iraq on Wednesday, moving south toward Baghdad as government forces scrambled to regroup after losing ...Bashar al-Assad says West changing position on Syria war
Western countries that back the revolt in Syria have started to shift position on the conflict because of the danger posed to ...




