Philippine President Benigno Aquino was under growing pressure on Thursday to speed up the distribution of food, water and medicine to desperate survivors of a super typhoon as a U.S. aircraft carrier "strike group" arrived to get supplies moving. While international relief efforts...
Attacks against Shiites, including a suicide bombing that ripped through a religious procession, killed 39 people in Iraq Thursday despite massive security deployed for one of the holiest days of their faith. The bloodshed came as a flood of...
Hezbollah fighters are going to stay in Syria “as long as they are needed” by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces battling rebels, head of the Shiite movement, Hassan Nasrallah, said during his second appearance in public marking a Shiite religious occasion. “As long as the reasons...
Behind a veil of secrecy, at least 30 journalists have been kidnapped or have disappeared in Syria — held and threatened with death by extremists or taken captive by gangs seeking ransom. The widespread seizure of journalists is unprecedented, and has been largely unreported...
