Under a Palestinian flag, Palestinians of all factions called for unity at a rally in February in Ramallah in the West Bank.
Fatah and Hamas, rival Palestinian movements, announced an agreement in principle to end the years-long internal schism.
The latest evidence of a 10-year shift in American missions is seen with Leon E. Panetta, the intelligence chief, going to the Pentagon, and Gen. David H. Petraeus going to the C.I.A.
An image from a broadcast by Al Arabiya showed a Syrian Army tank moving through the city of Dara'a on Wednesday.
Dara’a has become center stage of a Syrian uprising that has posed the greatest challenge to the Assad family’s four decades of rule.
Six weeks after antigovernment protests began, a group of opposition figures in Syria announced what they called a united front and asked for support from the army.
Western nations failed to secure the simplest of Security Council measures: a press statement calling on Syria’s leaders to stop the violence against their own people.
The rebels were at first reluctant to admit the accident, not wanting to discourage further NATO strikes.
The turmoil mounted even as opposition and government officials were moving toward an agreement to usher President Ali Abdullah Saleh out of office in a month.
David H. Remes is challenging an apparent Justice Department ban on publicly discussing the leaked documents.
The Justice Department told Guantánamo defense lawyers that the documents about prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, remained legally classified even after they were made public.
An explosion early Wednesday on a gas pipeline in the Sinai cut supplies of Egyptian natural gas to Israel for the second time this year, in a suspected act of sabotage.
Six NATO service members were killed on Wednesday by a gunman wearing an Afghan Air Force uniform, the fourth such incident in the past two weeks.
Leaders of the two countries met earlier this month in Kabul, and Pakistan suggested that Afghanistan needed to look to China rather than hewing to the United States.
By many accounts, the two decades of on-again-off-again human rights talks have been tedious and unrewarding exercises in diplomatic theater.
Tibet’s exiled government said a Harvard legal scholar was elected as its new prime minister, a choice signaling a generational shift within the Tibetan movement.
Judges removed the defense counsel for a genocide suspect because he had failed to travel to the court, which is based in Tanzania.
Lack of chips from one plant is a reason auto production has slowed in Japan, the United States and elsewhere.
The lesson autocrats are taking from the Arab Spring is that those who quit, like Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, face humiliation, while those who continue to use force gain leverage.
Classified military documents provide accounts of the men who have done time at the prison and the evidence against the 172 men still locked up there.
Documents related to the 779 people who have been sent to the Guantánamo Bay prison since 2002.
Bassem Youssef, a 37-year-old cardiothoracic surgeon in Cairo, has followed Jon Stewart's news parody model in establishing himself as a star on YouTube, and soon, on television.
Far beneath the teeming city, migrant workers known as “the mouse tribe” make their homes.
Nearly 10 years after the Taliban were driven from power in Afghanistan, the capital city is a patchwork of the old and the remade.
To address the damage from the Bush administration’s interrogation and detention policies, the Obama administration should recognize the public servants who rejected torture.
What does the escape of nearly 500 militants say about the ability of Afghan forces to secure their country?
Videos, photographs and interactive features documenting the destruction in Japan after a powerful earthquake and tsunami devastated the country on March 11.
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A reporter reflects on the experience of one American battalion and how success and failure go hand in hand.
Despite indications of rising official censorship in China, an exhibit on the European age of Enlightenment seems to be reaching its intended audience.
Interactive Feature: A Year at War
