World at War: Malian special forces have entered the Radisson Blu Hotel in the country’s capital Bamako where gunmen were holding up to 170 hostages. Amid sporadic gunfire, soldiers were going through the hotel floor by floor. At least three …

Permawar: Afghanistan is investigating reports that Mullah Muhammad Omar, the one-eyed leader of the Taliban, is dead. Omar has not been seen in public since before the Taliban regime was toppled in 2001. A breakaway group of the Taliban claims …

Permawar: For the second day Turkish warplanes have hit Islamic State targets inside Syria as well as Kurdish PKK militants inside northern Iraq. Striking the Kurds complicates matters because they’ve been working with the coalition fighting the Islamic State, but …

Flight 370: The competence of Malaysian authorities is under question again after they gave a new version of the last words from Flight 370. They now say one of the pilots in the missing jet said, “Good night Malaysian three …