(Reuters) – United States President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron will step up their support for Syrian opposition groups this week and seek to map out the next phase for military...
(multimedia) Israel’s military says it launched at least 10 airstrikes against Palestinian militants in Gaza Monday, as both sides continued trading attacks. Palestinian officials said two militants and three civilians were killed.
KABUL, Afghanistan – The Taliban is vowing revenge against the U.S. after an American soldier allegedly shot and killed 16 Afghan civilians in a Sunday rampage. In a statement on their website, the militant...
Pakistan’s government has issued orders banning the country’s largest Islamic extremist group. Ahle Sunnah Wal Jamaat was first banned in 2002 by then Pakistani leader Gen Pervez Musharraf. Activists from the pro-al-Qaeda group formerly...
Suspected al-Qaeda fighters in southern Yemen have been targeted in air strikes, reports say. Between 18 and 45 militants are said to have been killed in raids late on Friday and on Saturday. Militants...
The flare-up began Friday with a strike on militant commander Zuhair al-Qaissi, whom Israel said was planning an attack from the nearby Egyptian Sinai peninsula into the Jewish state. He was the leader of...
Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, said such staunch support for Israel is fundamental to the evangelical movement. “American evangelicals have it in their DNA: God blesses...
US President Barack Obama reportedly on Monday gave Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu a copy of the Book of Esther in honor of the Jewish holiday of Purim, which is celebrated on Thursday and Friday...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Days before Iran’s just-completed parliamentary elections, the country’s supreme leader gave what amounted to a pep rally on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear views. Atomic technology is a pillar of...
(CBS/AP) WASHINGTON – The top U.S. commander in the Middle East will warn Congress on Tuesday against efforts to scale back the Navy’s presence in the embattled region, saying threats from Iran and elsewhere...
