Malaysia Airlines may face global legal claims
Malaysia Airlines may need to convince judges from several countries that it was not negligent to send a plane over war-torn eastern Ukraine if the airline hopes to avoid an outsize legal exposure for the downing of Flight MH17, aviation lawyers said. The lawyers said ...
Gaza fighting becomes a lethal reality show for rocket-weary Israelis
Sitting on a leather sofa in flip-flops and shorts, smoking and eating snacks, a group of middle-aged Israeli men look like they are watching a soccer match on TV, but they are perched atop a hill overlooking the Gaza Strip watching a very different ...
As long as violence perpetrated by Islamist militants was more or less contained in Nigeria's remote northeast, the attitude of many citizens and expatriates in the prosperous south was a shrug of the shoulders. But growing evidence that Boko Haram, or other violent groups or ...
Shiite Muslim tribesmen handed back an army camp to the Yemeni government on Saturday, a spokesman for the group said, to try to defuse tensions caused by the capture of a provincial capital north of Sanaa earlier in the week. The fall of Omran, some ...
Utah man arrested in bomb plot to cause uprising against government
A Utah man has been arrested in connection with a plot to blow up a police station, kill police officers and destroy infrastructure to delay an emergency response, authorities said. John Huggins, 47, believed that the plan, once carried out, would spark an anti-government uprising, ...
Kurds seize Iraq oil fields, ministers pull out of government
Kurdish forces seized two oil fields in northern Iraq and took over operations from a state-run oil company Friday, while Kurdish politicians formally suspended their participation in Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government. The moves escalated a feud between the Shiite-led central government and the autonomous ...
Abandoned al-Qaida camp offers glimpse of caliphate
At first glance, the neat handwriting in blue ink could be from a school notebook. Prize apart the pages, stuck together by sand and water, and it becomes clear the book belonged to a militant from al-Qaida. Discarded in shrubbery in the mountains of southern ...
The U.N. atomic agency believes nuclear material that Iraq said had been seized by insurgents was "low-grade" and did not pose a significant security risk. Iraq told the United Nations in a July 8 letter seen by reporters on Thursday that "terrorist groups" had seized ...
Iraqi security forces find 53 blindfolded bodies south of Baghdad
Iraqi security forces found 53 corpses, blindfolded and handcuffed, in a town south of Baghdad early Wednesday, local officials said. They said the bodies had been left in the mainly Shiite Muslim village of Khamissiya, about 25 km southeast of the city of Hilla, near ...
Tweets and online videos are emerging as weapons of war in the Islamic State's campaign to seize a swath of Iraq, with the al-Qaida offshoot's use of social media dwarfing efforts by other militant groups. Over the weekend, websites previously used by the group calling ...
Saudi Arabia reportedly deploys 30,000 soldiers to border with Iraq
Saudi Arabia deployed 30,000 soldiers to its border with Iraq after Iraqi soldiers abandoned the area, Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television said on Thursday. But Baghdad denied the report, saying the frontier remained under its full control. The world's top oil exporter, Saudi Arabia shares an 800-km ...
