Beijing (AFP) Sept 12, 2021 - With YouTube videos debunking allegations of human rights abuses and diatribes on Western conspiracies against China, an unlikely set of foreigners are loudly defending Beijing from its international critics.
Perpignan, France (AFP) Sept 10, 2017 - Finalists in one of photojournalism's most prestigious awards competition came away with far more than pictures while covering the fight for Iraq's Mosul, the longest urban battle since Stalingrad.
Washington (UPI) Oct 04 2006 - For the first time a senior Saudi official has spoken out publicly before a Western audience on the tensions between Sunni and Shiite sects of Islam and acknowledged that the Shiite minority in Saudi Arabia have suffered social and political alienation and discrimination.
Washington (UPI) Feb. 6, 2007 - U.S. President George W. Bush's splurge is already bringing premature claims of success, even though the first troops are just arriving in Iraq. A column in the Jan. 29 Washington Times by retired Marine Col. Oliver North quotes an American officer in Iraq as saying, Do they (Members of Congress opposed to the war) even know that in the last two weeks we have set AQI (al-Qaida in Iraq) and the Mahdi Army both back on their heels?
Washington (UPI) Aug. 22, 2006 - Nearly five years after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the United States has not won the global war on terror, nor even brought its chief antagonist to justice. And we remain bogged down in a war in Iraq against guerrillas who command the loyalty of at most 20 percent of that country's inhabitants.
Washington (UPI) Aug. 25, 2006 - Shortly after the recent outbreak of violence in Lebanon and Israel, Newt Gingrich made headlines by proposing that existing threats against American interests throughout the world constitute the early stages of World War III.
Samarra, Iraq (AFP) Sept 13, 2019 - Accused of links with the Islamic State group, hundreds of Iraqi families have been evicted from displacement camps only to find their hometowns and tribes angrily refusing their return.
Beirut, Lebanon (AFP) Sept 28, 2024 - Israel has killed Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah and several of its top commanders in a series of targeted air strikes on the Iran-backed movement's stronghold in Beirut.
Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 19, 2013 - From a windowless room in a dilapidated Hong Kong high-rise, Ali Diallo sells Chinese electronics to retailers across Africa. The modest surroundings belie the multi-million dollar business the West African trader has built in the five years since he moved to the city.
Bangkok (AFP) Sept 13, 2023 - Chinese tourists will enjoy visa-free entry to Thailand from the end of September under a temporary scheme announced by the kingdom's newly formed cabinet Wednesday.
Bangkok (AFP) Sept 15, 2015 - Thailand's police chief Tuesday linked the Bangkok bomb to China's Uighurs for the first time, as the lawyer for one of two detained foreign suspects confirmed his client is from the Muslim minority.
Bangkok (AFP) Sept 12, 2015 - Thai police on Saturday said an arrest warrant had been issued for a Chinese man over last month's deadly Bangkok blast, backtracking after they earlier identified the suspect as a member of the country's Uighur minority.
Washington (AFP) Sept 14, 2011 - Africa must improve security cooperation in battling extremists or face the prospect of a continent-wide terror network threatening the region and the United States, a top US commander warned Wednesday.
Damascus (AFP) Sept 30, 2014 - Extremists cannot be defeated by countries that have spread terrorism, Syria's President Bashar al-Assad said Tuesday in an apparent jab at members of the US-led anti-jihadist coalition.
London (AFP) Sept 6, 2023 - British authorities on Wednesday issued an all-ports alert to track down a former soldier awaiting trial on terrorism charges, after he escaped from jail by clinging to the bottom of a delivery van.
Washington (AFP) Sept 10, 2015 - President Barack Obama will offer his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping a full state welcome at the White House later this month, belying tensions fueled by Beijing's increased military assertiveness.
