After rejecting four previous deals over minor quibbles -- an obvious stalling tactic -- Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh has finally signed a Gulf countries-brokered deal transfering power to his Number Two, Gen. Abd-Rabbu Mansour al-Hadi. Hadi is charged with...
Several attacks by both occupation and government forces as well as insurgents killed at least 54 people across Afghanistan Tuesday. NATO planes bombed the eastern Ghazni province Tuesday morning, killing 30 "insurgents." No details on the attack were released by any...
The war on terror is 10 years old, but its fronts only continue to grow. A once-pitiful Islamic group in Nigeria is now giving the government a run for its money and attracting a wary eye from the West, while thousands of missing weapons from Libyan armories spark...
27 people were killed in Taliban attacks across Kabul Tuesday, including 15 attackers. As in the June attack on the Intercontinental Hotel, NATO said today's events were a Taliban attempt to derail the handover of security to Afghan forces. That attack continued...
Before American involvement in NATO's attack on the Gadhafi regime began, the administration insisted there would be "no US boots on the ground" in Libya. That promise has been stretched under the presence of CIA agents, but today the first publicly admitted uniformed...
The news doesn't get better for thousands of black Africans trapped in Libya, besieged by racist rebel fighters. In addition to chronic suspicion of being mercenaries for Gadhafi, women in one internal refugee camp say they are dragged off at night and raped by...
It's as if we've already been attacked, and the last ten years of war never happened. In response to somewhat vague warnings of a tenth-anniversary terror plot on the United States, security is up in target cities like New York and Washington, DC -- and so is official...
As the clock ticks closer to the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and the Pentagon, the hysteria meter rises as well. But there are mixed signals from officials eager not to overplay what may be a nonevent. The New York Police Dept., a...
Brazilian Defense Minister Celso Amorim told the BBC his country plans to begin removing its troops from Haiti, after it was determined the occupation doesn't help Haitians. The troops were sent in 2004 as part of a UN mission to impose order after former president...
We thought July was deadly in Afghanistan. But August was already showing its deadly side by mid-month, after the Taliban shot down a US helicopter and bombings, shootings, and drone strikes killed dozens. Two weeks later, this last month has been proved the deadliest...
