Month: May 2012

President Obama hosts an extravaganza of summits, G8 and NATO, with thorny issues of Afghanistan and Syria on the tables. NATO might even invite Pakistan.

A Chinese human rights activist who ignited an international incident when he escaped house arrest last month told U.S. lawmakers that his relatives continue to suffer government reprisals.

Rose Mary Sabo Brown spent just 30 days with her new husband, Army Spec. Leslie Sabo Jr., before he shipped out to fight in Vietnam. But from that month together in 1969 grew a lifetime of love.

Despite a cease-fire deal, violence has continued in Syria. What options do the U.N. and the U.S. have? Is a civil war inevitable? Some key questions answered.

Now in a camp on the Syria-Turkey border, Mohammed cannot justify why Syrian security forces killed his sons in Syria. “We just want freedom. What’s wrong with asking for freedom?”

Amid growing concerns of third-party militant groups leaving deadly marks in the Syrian crisis, the jihadist Al Nusra Front has denied a claim that it was responsible for dual suicide bombings that killed 55 and wounded hundreds in the Syrian capital l…