KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban threatened to attack next month's presidential election in Afghanistan, calling on its followers "to use all force" in targeting poll workers and political activists and to disrupt balloting.
"We once again call ...
BEIRUT -- The deal that saw the release over the weekend of 13 Syrian nuns who had been abducted in December by anti-government fighters happened largely because rebel forces fear they are about to lose control of the area where the nuns were ...
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State John F. Kerry has delayed plans for a meeting in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week amid an impasse between the two countries over Ukraine.
A Kerry trip to Moscow was under discussion in recent...
LOS ANGELES -- The large 6.9-magnitude earthquake that rattled Northern California on Sunday was the state's largest earthquake in nearly a decade. But it caused no damage or injuries.
That's because the quake was centered 50 miles off the coast ...
CAIRO -- Three veteran activists of Egypt's 2011 revolution told a court Monday that they were suffering abuse at the hands of their jailers and that they were even beaten up by the prison guards bringing them to court.
The allegations by the ...
PEREVALNE, Ukraine -- The cloaked soldiers camped outside the Ukrainian coastal security base may be silent to strangers about who they are and where they come from. But they freely admit to the Ukrainian soldiers they've surrounded that they come...