A ship chartered by The Free Gaza Movement has arrived in the Gaza Strip today, carrying 27 activists (including five doctors) and humanitarian supplies for the blockaded strip. It is the second voyage by the group to the strip, which is protesting the Israeli blockade. One of the organizers said the ship will carry 10 [...]
Senior US officials, commenting on Sunday’s attack into Syria, said the strike was designed to send a warning to the Syrian government. “You have to clean up the global threat that is in your back yard, and if you won’t do that, we are left with no choice but to take these matters into our [...]
As the fallout continues from Sunday’s US military strike into Syria, Syria’s cabinet today denounced Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh for comments made in the wake of the attack which they said were an “unacceptable and irresponsible justification for this heinous aggression which was launched from the Iraqi territories against a neighboring Arab country.”
Al-Dabbagh said [...]
Ever since the Georgian shelling of Tskhinvali sparked its brief August war with Russia, both sides have claimed loudly and consistently that the other has committed war crimes. This has included over 3,000 complaints filed with the European Court of Human Rights regarding action in South Ossetia. The complaints have largely been shrugged off by [...]
A major defeat in this weekend’s elections has left the Czech Republic’s coalition government teetering and Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek under growing pressure to resign and hold new national elections, but it has also put the unpopular US radar station in serious jeopardy.
Residents near the proposed site have been protesting its construction for months, and [...]
Spokesmen from both the White House and the State Department have vowed to press on with US ambitions for a peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority by the end of the year, but the prospect seems all but dead with Israeli President Shimon Peres settling February 10, 2009 as the date for the [...]
The reports of the Afghan government seeking some kind of rapprochement with the Taliban seem stronger than ever, and in a move which General David Petraeus said he supports earlier this month the United States may be considering not just backing the talks but being directly involved in them.
The move is not expected to come [...]
In a statement to the UN General Assembly, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei said that he was still unable to “achieve full clarity regarding the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran.”
He called on the Iranian government to ensure transparency “to build confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of its [...]
For the second time in the past few days, the Pakistani Senate has strongly condemned the recent US drone strikes in North and South Waziristan. The resolution labeled the strikes “unfortunate” and a gross violation of Pakistani sovereignty. Senate leader Raza Rabbani assured that the US ambassador would be summoned to register the protest.
On Friday, [...]
While the White House has declined comment and other US officials defended the strike on a Syrian border town yesterday which killed eight, international condemnation rained down on the strike from a number of sources.
The Syrian government, which already summoned the US Charges d’Affaires to complain about a strike which they labeled as “serious aggression,” [...]
