EU Police Officer Shot Dead In Kosovo, Testing Fragile Accord

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Gunmen shot dead a European Union police officer in a mainly Serb region of Kosovo on Thursday, dealing the mission its first fatality since...

Analysis: Brazil And U.S., Like Star-Crossed Lovers, Foiled Again

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Every time Brazil and the United States get to the altar, the roof of the church seems to collapse. In 1982, U.S. President Ronald Reagan...

Russia Says U.N. Report On Syria Attack Biased

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Russia denounced U.N. investigators' findings on a poison gas attack in Syria as preconceived and tainted by politics on Wednesday, stepping up its criticism...

Chemical Weapons Disposal Will Cost $1 Billion, Take A Year: Assad

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President Bashar al-Assad said on Wednesday it would cost about $1 billion to get rid of Syria's chemical weapons under a U.S.-Russian deal reached...

In Public Shift, Israel Calls For Assad’s Fall

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Israel wants to see Syrian President Bashar al-Assad toppled, its ambassador to the United States said on Tuesday, in a shift from its non-committal...

Insight: Brotherhood Leaders Liken Egypt Jail Cells To Graves

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Murad Ali says he was put in a foul-smelling cell on death row, sleeping on a concrete floor, and denied light and human contact...

Iran Confirms Exchange Of Letters With Obama

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Iran said on Tuesday that President Hassan Rouhani had exchanged letters with U.S. President Barack Obama, confirming a rare contact between leaders of the...

After Angie, Uschi? – Some Germans Ponder Life After Merkel

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It is heresy even to pose the question to the chancellor's supporters before Sunday's general election and, if she does win a third term,...

Russia And France Disagree On Syria Sarin Attack

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Russia said on Tuesday it still suspected an August 21 chemical weapons attack in Syria was carried out by rebel forces, despite a report...

Al Qaeda Leader Urges Restraint In First ‘Guidelines For Jihad’

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Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has issued his first specific guidelines for jihad, urging restraint in attacking other Muslim sects and non-Muslims and in...