Using lessons learned in Afghanistan and Central America, the United States has begun training special anti-drugs police squads in Ghana with hopes of breaking lucrative narcotics supply routes.
Daniel Tovrov
Jul 23, 2012
A fancy new aircraft upgrade for the Marines is causing a backlash in Japan and exposing years of tensions over U.S. forces in the country.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jul 23, 2012
Romney can invoke anemic monthly job numbers to contend that Obama's domestic policies have failed. But he faces a more difficult task in critiquing how the Obama administration's policies have unfolded outside of America's borders.
Jeremy White
Jul 23, 2012
U.S. health officials are urging vaccinations for an infection that sounds like something out of a Charles Dickens novel.
Angelo Young
Jul 21, 2012
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Luis Walker was convicted in a military court Friday on charges that included rape, aggravated sexual contact, and aggravated sexual assault, according to the Associated Press. Walker was convicted on a total of 28 counts.
Jeff Stone
Jul 20, 2012
The Kalashnikov is a modern icon - one that's responsible for uncountable deaths, possibly including those in the Colorado massacre. It's cheap, it's plentiful, and in the middle of America, pretty easy to find
IBT Staff Reporter
Jul 20, 2012
With one week remaining before the opening ceremony of the London Olympics, questions over the provision of security guards for the Games are popping up around Britain.
Anthony Riccobono
Jul 20, 2012
It seems that we witness a similar massacre about once a year or so in the U.S.
Palash Ghosh
Jul 20, 2012
As the Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins, the Islamic world will have much to reflect upon this year. In Syria, a civil war looms if it hasn't already arrived. In Egypt, a fledgling democracy is being tested. In Afghanistan, an exhaustive American war is coming to a dubious end.
Ryan Villarreal
Jul 20, 2012
PCS said the industrial action is due to worries over job cuts, pay and privatization.
Palash Ghosh
Jul 19, 2012
A retired member of the Navy's elite SEAL Team 6 claims Obama had endangered the military's special operations forces and has taken too much credit for the death of Osama bin Laden.
Ashley Portero
Jul 19, 2012
In an echo from the final weeks of Saddam Hussein's reign in Iraq in 2003, Syrian President Bashar al Assad has reportedly retreated to his tribal homeland as rebels advance on Damascus.
Angelo Young
Jul 19, 2012
Relatives of U.S. citizens killed by drone strikes in Yemen have filed a lawsuit against senior members of the Obama administration, the latest legal challenge to the president's aggressive use of armed drones.
Jeremy White
Jul 18, 2012
A bomb destroyed 22 of NATO's oil-tanker trucks parked alongside a road in northern Samangan province overnight. The fire from the massive explosion was still burning Wednesday morning.
Angelo Young
Jul 18, 2012
Yemen is going through a difficult political transition after the ouster of president Ali Abdallah Saleh, but that isn't as bad as its humanitarian crisis
Daria Solovieva
Jul 18, 2012
While the world's deadliest famine has officially ended, remaining food shortages coupled with insecurity and fighting between African Union forces and militant group al-Shabab have wreaked havoc on the nation and its people.
Daniel Tovrov
Jul 17, 2012
Considering her South African roots and the many serious challenges facing the African Union today, Dlamini-Zuma will be under intense scrutiny in the coming weeks.
Jacey Fortin
Jul 16, 2012
Taliban militants have threatened aid workers trying to administer the polio vaccine in Pakistan, putting the lives of 250,000 children in the remote regions of South and North Waziristan at immediate risk.
Daniel Tovrov
Jul 16, 2012
An Afghan investigation into the suicide bombing attack that killed 23 people Saturday, including three security force officials, during a wedding ceremony indicates the involvement of Taliban-affiliated terrorists, the country's interior minister has said.
Ryan Villarreal
Jul 15, 2012
In the tradition of stranger than fiction documentaries, The Imposter reminds us just how cruel and absurd reality can be.
Justine Ashley Costanza
Jul 14, 2012
Introducing Myanmar, the world's next big thing that's struggling to figure out what exactly that means.
Mark Johanson
Jul 14, 2012
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) failed to reach a common ground over the territorial tensions in South China Sea, resulting from the disagreements among the members, which a member nation Indonesia slammed as utterly irresponsible.
Amrutha Gayathri
Jul 13, 2012
