Militants burn hostage to death
CAIRO — A video showing Islamic State militants burning a captive Jordanian pilot to death brought an outpouring of grief and rage across ...
TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe defended his policy toward terrorism, as the flag at his official residence flew at half-staff today in a mark of mourning for...
Islamic State deadline passes
TOKYO — The fates of a Japanese journalist and Jordanian military pilot were unknown today, a day after the latest purported deadline for a ...
Hostage cases intertwined
TOKYO — A sunset deadline was approaching today in the Middle East for Jordan to release an Iraqi prisoner or face the death of a captured Jorda...
Exchange would set precedent
AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan is willing to swap an Iraqi woman prisoner involved in a deadly 2005 hotel bombing for a Jordanian pilot captured in D...
NEW DELHI — President Barack Obama was leading a bipartisan delegation of lawmakers, senior U.S. officials and two former secretaries of state to Saudi Arabia Tuesday to...
LONDON — The U.S. and its allies sought to put a good face on the coalition’s deliberate campaign to roll back the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria on Thursday, boa...
Militants want $200M ransom
TOKYO — Japan promised today not to give up “until the very end” on efforts to free two Japanese hostages threatened with beheading by Islamic...
69 bodies have been recovered
PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia — Indonesian rescuers lifted the fuselage of the crashed AirAsia jetliner nearly to the water’s surface before it ...
Major issues stand in way
HAVANA — After a euphoric month that left Americans dreaming of holidays in Havana and Cubans imagining U.S. products at their corner stores, th...
