Syria
March 29, 2013
UNITED NATIONS--Iran, Syria and North Korea on March 29 prevented the adoption of the first international treaty to regulate the $70 billion global conventional arms trade,...
February 01, 2013
Debate within Japan over when it is permissible to export weapons and other military hardware received a jolt Jan. 30 when the Israeli military struck a target inside Syria.
January 08, 2013
Once upon a time, a man came to see a high priest to say New Year’s greetings and asked him to write some words. The priest readily wrote: “Parents die, children die and...
December 08, 2012
The government has decided to withdraw Self-Defense Force members from the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Golan Heights due to surging violence in the region, sources said.
November 30, 2012
Dozens of countries meeting Nov. 30 to discuss sanctions on the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad condemned the deteriorating humanitarian situation there but also...
November 15, 2012
NEW YORK--North Korea violated a United Nations Security Council resolution by shipping ballistic missile-related items to war-torn Syria in May, according to sources citing a...
September 06, 2012
The original meaning of the word assassin is said to be “one who uses hashish.” The story about “the old man of the mountain” in Persia who sends out gallant young men...
August 30, 2012
I was invited by a Syrian friend of mine to a dinner at his home in the capital, Damascus, in July, as the disruption in the lives of residents following an offensive against...
August 28, 2012
Hundreds of mourners attended an Aug. 27 wake for journalist Mika Yamamoto, slain last week while on assignment in Syria.
August 27, 2012
Around the world, the lives of countless people are threatened by civil war. Journalist Mika Yamamoto stood by those in peril, no matter the obstacles. She paid for this with...
August 27, 2012
AZAZ, Syria--The Syrian driver who took Japanese journalist Mika Yamamoto into the war-torn city of Aleppo said she had been shot dead by militiamen loyal to President Bashar...
August 25, 2012
The body of slain journalist Mika Yamamoto, who was shot while covering the civil war in Syria, arrived at Narita Airport from Istanbul on Aug. 25.
August 24, 2012
ISTANBUL--Family members of war correspondent Mika Yamamoto, who was killed while covering the civil war in Syria, viewed her bullet-torn body at a mosque in neighboring Turkey ...
August 23, 2012
KILIS, Turkey--Japanese war correspondent Mika Yamamoto, who was killed Aug. 20 while covering the conflict in Syria, suffered massive blood loss caused by gunshot wounds to...
August 22, 2012
There is no glory in being a war correspondent if the final price is paying with your life while covering a story. The fact is, war correspondents put their lives on the line...
August 21, 2012
A Japanese journalist has been killed in Syria while covering the civil war there, Japan's government said on Aug. 21.
July 21, 2012
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's national security adviser, Thomas Donilon, will discuss security in the Middle East and Asia with senior Chinese officials in Beijing...
July 01, 2012
GENEVA--World powers struck an agreement that a transitional government should be set up in Syria to end the conflict there but they remained at odds over what part President...
June 25, 2012
In Afghanistan, one of the theaters in the U.S.-led war on terror, children are far more afraid of "ghosts" than "bombings and sounds of explosions" or "men carrying guns,"...
June 07, 2012
BEIJING -- Leaders of a bloc grouping China, Russia and Central Asian states called on June 7 for dialogue to address the violence in Syria, all but guaranteeing that there...