SOUTH KOREA, APR 16: South Korea’s president has promised to raise the Sewol ferry, as the nation marks a year since the disaster. A total
SAUDI ARAB, APR 16: Three weeks of Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen have led to defections of army units loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, military sources said, dealing a
JAPAN, APR 15: Air safety authorities in Japan are investigating how a South Korean Asiana Airlines plane skidded off a runway on landing at Hiroshima airport. The 74 passengers and
CUBA, APR 15: Cuba has welcomed as “fair” a US decision to remove it from a list of state sponsors of terrorism, saying it should never have been on the
PALESTIN, APR, 14: They took Yarmouk by storm, a sea of masked men flooding into the streets of one the world’s most beleaguered places. Besieged and bombed by Syrian forces
NIGERIA, APR 14: NICeremonies are to be staged around the world to mark one year since more than 200 girls were abducted by Nigerian militant Islamist group Boko Haram. A
DUHOK, IRAQI KURDISTAN, APR 13: The children laugh and shriek, as some of them seem to always have the capacity to do no matter how depressing the circumstances. Their bright
FRANCE, APR 13: The founder of the French National Front, Jean-Marie Le Pen, has said he is pulling out of regional elections amid a row with his daughter. Marine Le
IRAQ, APR 12: ISIS fighters seized several districts in the Iraqi city of Ramadi in an hours-long assault Friday that included suicide and car bombs, an Iraqi provincial official said.
John T. Booker Jr. struck others as strange or even troubled but also as a young man not shy about discussing his faith as a Muslim or debating Islamic philosophy