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Police shoot dead 2 gunmen at Texas exhibit of Prophet Mohammad cartoons

Texas police shot dead two gunmen who opened fire on Sunday outside an exhibit of caricatures of the...

May 04, 2015 07:04 AM EDT

Iran stance and regional policy bring French leader Gulf Arab rewards

France's tough line in talks with Iran and a similar analysis to Gulf Arab states on regional crises...

May 01, 2015 08:48 PM EDT

FBI has exemption to arrange payments to hostage-takers: U.S. sources

While U.S. policy bans federal officials from doing business with kidnappers, the FBI for years has ...

Apr 30, 2015 07:02 PM EDT

Saudi king resets succession to cope with turbulent times

Saudi King Salman appointed a new heir and made his young son second in line to rule on Wednesday, a...

Apr 29, 2015 10:15 AM EDT

Boston bomber's lawyers focus on brother's obsession with Islam

The older brother of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev changed from a roisterous boxer known ...

Apr 29, 2015 06:41 AM EDT

Killing of U.S. al Qaeda media frontman seen as big blow for militants

The killing of an American who directed al Qaeda's media campaign from his Pakistani hideout is like...

Apr 24, 2015 08:39 PM EDT

Hostage locations difficult to track - and may be getting harder

The U.S. drone strike that accidentally killed two hostages in Pakistan exposes intelligence shortfa...

Apr 24, 2015 06:02 AM EDT

U.S. strike inadvertently killed U.S., Italian hostages; Obama apologizes

A U.S. drone strike in January targeting an al Qaeda compound in Pakistan near the Afghan border ina...

Apr 23, 2015 06:34 PM EDT

Turkey faces delicate battle against Islamic State sympathizers at home

Defne Bayrak's husband was a suicide bomber who killed CIA operatives in a 2009 attack in Afghanista...

Apr 22, 2015 08:29 AM EDT

Boston bomber's sentencing trial on death penalty begins Tuesday

Prosecutors and defense attorneys for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Tuesday ...

Apr 21, 2015 08:42 AM EDT

Yemen's Houthi fighters have tough record in ground war

It's a nightly exercise in futility: Yemen's Houthis fire rifles at Saudi F-15 jets thundering overh...

Apr 21, 2015 05:58 AM EDT

Life or death? Boston bomber's trial turns to sentencing

Convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is set to return to court on Tuesday for the next...

Apr 19, 2015 09:35 AM EDT

New Yemen VP says he hopes to avert Saudi invasion

Yemen's newly-appointed Vice President Khaled Bahah, a widely respected figure named this week to sh...

Apr 16, 2015 06:37 PM EDT

South Carolina officer's lawyer embraces infamous cases

When a South Carolina policeman was acquitted of manslaughter after beating a suspect to death in 19...

Apr 12, 2015 06:41 PM EDT

Iran's leader says Saudi air strikes causing genocide

Iran's leader on Thursday condemned the military intervention by its main regional rival Saudi Arabi...

Apr 09, 2015 10:26 AM EDT

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