Syria's Western-backed political opposition group, the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, has elected a new presidential committee and a president widely seen as not tied to any of the body's international sponsors. Despite having tenuous links with fighters on the ground and ...
A crude bomb exploded outside a busy restaurant in India's high-tech capital of Bangalore, killing a woman and wounding a man, police said. The low-intensity blast occurred in the center of the city packed with Sunday evening crowds, prompting a security alert in other Indian ...
Japanese government, LDP to draw up permanent law on dispatch of Self-Defense Forces overseas
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party plans to draw up a permanent law governing the dispatch of Self-Defense Forces personnel overseas.
Pakistan to appeal bail for man accused of masterminding Mumbai attack
Pakistan plans to appeal a court decision to grant bail to a man accused of masterminding 2008 attacks in India's financial capital that killed 166 people, prosecutors said on Friday. The decision to grant bail to Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi appeared to blind side the Pakistani government, ...
Pakistani pupils recall narrow escapes, carnage in Taliban slaughter at Peshawar school
Tuesday began like any other morning in Pakistan's Army Public School in the northwestern city of Peshawar. Students pored over their books. Teachers ruffled through their notes and gave lectures. In an instant, the peace was shattered by gunfire, with bodies strewn across the school's ...
Sony tells theaters they can pull 'The Interview' after threats
Sony Pictures executives told theaters they are free to pull "The Interview" from their multiplexes following threats of violence by a hacker group, according to people with knowledge of the situation. The studio will support whatever decision exhibitors make regarding the Seth Rogen comedy, said ...
At least 84 children killed in Taliban school attack in Pakistan
At least 84 children were killed in Pakistan on Tuesday when Taliban gunmen stormed a military-run school in the city of Peshawar, taking hundreds of students and teachers hostage in the bloodiest insurgent attack in the country in years. Troops surrounded the building and an ...
'Lone wolf' Australian hostage-taker had violent, unsettled past
The self-styled sheik behind a siege at a Sydney cafe had been charged as an accessory to murder and with multiple sexual offenses. He also harbored deep grievances against the Australian government and had found little kinship in the city's large Muslim community, where ...
Police storm Sydney cafe to end hostage siege; gunman, two others dead
Heavily armed Australian police stormed a Sydney cafe on Tuesday and freed a number of hostages being held there at gunpoint, in a dramatic end to a 16-hour siege in which three people were killed and four wounded. New South Wales police said two men, ...
West versus Islamic State: the ransom dilemma
The refusal to pay ransoms to terrorists can seem callous, but in truth it is the only ethical policy. Governments that pay ransoms to save some of their citizens' lives put the remainder of their citizens — and others — at greater risk.
Prosecutions for CIA torture still seem unlikely after Senate report
Minutes after a U.S. Senate intelligence panel released details of the CIA's torture of terrorism suspects, President Barack Obama suggested the country should move on. The U.S. Department of Justice, which has the power to bring criminal charges, looks set to follow his word. Criminal prosecutions ...
CIA eased Poland's qualms over secret prisons with boxes of bank notes: Senate report
Poland threatened to halt the transfer of al-Qaida suspects to a secret CIA jail on its soil 11 years ago, but became more "flexible" after the Central Intelligence Agency handed over a large sum of money, according to a U.S. Senate report. U.S. President Barack ...
