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Progress WatchUN Millennium Development goals: World cuts extreme poverty in halfUN Millennium Development Goals report shows how 'bold targeting' has reduced the gap between boys and girls attending primary school, malaria mortality, and the number of people living without improved water sources.
US-bound airport security tightens amid worry about one bombmakerAl Qaeda follower Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri has a talent for building hard-to-detect bombs, and now intelligence indicates that he has ties to an Islamist group whose members include Westerners 鈥� who don't need visas to travel to the US.聽
Iran nuclear talks: 3 issues that must be resolved for an accord this monthThe parties to the Iran nuclear talks are likely to carry on marathon negotiations over the next two weeks. Each side is calling on the other to take the big steps necessary to make a comprehensive agreement possible.
Border crisis: Kerry asks Central America to help combat 鈥榝alse information鈥�In Central America Tuesday, Secretary of State John Kerry urged three regional leaders to do more to refute the notion that minors reaching the US border will be allowed to stay in the country.
Iraq crisis: Republicans see ISIS as threat to America, Dems not as muchIn a new Monitor/TIPP poll, most Americans blame President Obama for the surge of Islamic extremists in Iraq, but Democrats and Republicans see the crisis differently.
Benghazi terror suspect faces US justice. Good news for Obama?Benghazi suspect Ahmed Abu Khatallah was in federal court Saturday, charged with providing support and resources to terrorists in the deadly 2012 attack. His capture is unlikely to benefit President Obama politically.
US military aid to Syria rebels: why Obama is seeking it nowThe $500 million Obama is requesting to train and arm Syrian rebels, the first direct US military aid in the three-year civil war, is part of a counterterrorism initiative and not directed against the Assad regime.
Not amused by Seth Rogen movie, Kim Jong-un vows 'all out war'North Korea vowing to incinerate the US is nothing new, but this time it's over a Hollywood comedy in which Kim Jong-un is the subject of a CIA assassination plot.
Iraq crisis: Kerry to meet with Saudi king, seeking Sunni Arab restraintIn the run-up to his stop in Saudi Arabia, Kerry has been imploring the region鈥檚 powers to refrain from entering the Iraqi conflict in ways he says could turn it into a full-blown sectarian war.
Iraq's Samarra, site of Shiite shrines, could hold key to 'unity or chaos'With Sunni militants declaring their intent to destroy Samarra's Shiite shrines, US officials are focusing on the city as a potential trigger point for sectarian bloodletting that could destroy Iraq.
In Iraq, ISIS militants dramatize Kerry's point: They're a threat to regionIn Baghdad, Secretary Kerry says Iraqi leaders must make the right choices to unify the country against ISIS militants if US assistance, including military action, is to work.
Insurgent gains in Iraq point to greater problems for the USThe Islamist insurgency in Iraq illustrates intelligence challenges in an increasingly unstable region, pointing to the potential for attacks in the US itself.
Obama's Iraq plan: a middle path from a conflicted presidentObama does not want to get the US involved in Iraq again, but he also knows the threat presented by a civil war there. His plan announced Thursday weighs those concerns.
After Bergdahl swap, public support for Obama foreign policy fallsWhile most Americans feel the Afghanistan war was a mistake, they especially disapprove of Obama's exchange of five Guant谩namo prisoners for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
Benghazi suspect nabbed: Does it take the heat off Obama?The White House hailed the capture of the man suspected of organizing the deadly 2012 Benghazi attack as 'a major milestone.' But GOP criticism of Obama may be only dented.
How Iraq crisis could signal profound change in US Middle East policySecretary of State John Kerry today signaled that the US is 'open to discussions' with Iran about how to shore up Iraq's Maliki government against advancing Sunni extremists and avert all-out sectarian war.
Iraq options: Should US send weapons to a military that may give them up?As Obama's staff prepares options for a US response in Iraq, President Obama cautions Iraq's Prime Minister Maliki on the need for steps toward political reconciliation.
Iraq unrest: Insurgents could have big impact on oil pricesOil prices spiked on news of the rapid advances by the Al Qaeda-inspired Islamist insurgents, although most of Iraq's oil fields are so far unaffected by the unrest.
Obama hints at military action in Iraq. Are airstrikes the only option?Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki is reportedly seeking US airstrikes to halt advancing militants amid a crisis that is challenging Obama's claim to have responsibly ended America's Middle East wars.
'Friendly fire' deaths in Afghanistan: Relatively rare, they draw attention.Five Special Operations Forces soldiers returning from a joint US-Afghan operation called in air support when they encountered insurgents. A B1 responding to the request reportedly hit the wrong target.