A fire broke out at the presidential campaign headquarters of Ahmed Shafik, Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister, after he had been confirmed as one of two candidates for the runoff election.
Kofi Annan, the United Nations special envoy, arrived in Syria and began negotiations, and the chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff warned that more atrocities could make military intervention more likely.
A blaze raged through the upscale Villaggio Mall in Doha, which is frequented by foreigners.
Ismail Haniya, the Hamas prime minister in Gaza, began talks with a group appointed by President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority to oversee elections in both Gaza and the West Bank.
Israel insisted that its soldiers acted in self-defense in a deadly raid on a Turkish passenger vessel attempting to breach Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza in May 2010.
Faculty at the United States Military Academy are debating what a counterinsurgency strategy achieved in Iraq and Afghanistan and whether the doctrine has a future.
May 26, 2012
After what Syrian activists called a massacre in a village near Homs, video posted online showed United Nations military observers viewing dozens of bodies prepared for burial on Saturday.
May 25, 2012
The Human Rights Channel was introduced this week to raise awareness of the videos created by citizen journalists across the world, YouTube announced in a blog post.
May 24, 2012
After a rally led to a spate of attacks on Africans in Tel Aviv late Wednesday, political leaders condemned the violence but vowed to crack down on illegal immigration.
May 28, 2012
Alex Quade, a freelance television reporter, pays a Memorial Day tribute to the soldiers she was embedded with, and nearly died with, five years ago.
May 28, 2012
Last week we asked you, our readers, to send us your Memorial Day rituals and traditions. You came through with great feeling, subtly and depth. Here are a selection of them.
May 27, 2012
Every year in the lead up to Memorial Day, one veteran of the Iraq War ponders the loss of his comrades and how to let go.
Another day of voting in Egypt’s first free presidential election.
Lebanese Christians want a dam to exploit their natural resources and to help alleviate their chronic shortages of electricity and water, but the only donor stepping forward is Iran.
After weeks of debate, speculation and argument, Egyptians went to the polls on Wednesday to cast ballots.
A suicide bomber dressed in army uniform infiltrated the rehearsal for a national day parade in Yemen, killing more than 90 people.
Remembering the fallen service members who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Nowhere is there any optimism that the talks with Tehran will succeed.
And no, they can’t tell jokes about anything they want. Hosni Mubarak, however, is fair game.
