Dozens were killed in bombs and shooting attacks across Iraq Monday morning, mid-way through the Ramadan holiday. Most of the 13 attacks targeted government forces, but the deadliest targeted civilians during morning rush-hour. The current toll stands at 74 killed,...
A Mexican "drug queen" acquitted of actual drug charges will not be extradited to the US, a Mexican federal court ruled today. Sandra Ávila Beltrán was cleared in December but held until the justice system could decide whether or not she would be sent to the US over a...
In what could be the single deadliest NATO attack since the Western war on Libya's Gadhafi regime began in May, 85 civilians were killed in a cluster of farmhouses in Majar, according to Libyan officials. The village is about 90 miles east of the capital, Tripoli. A...
Three days after the Taliban used a grenade launcher to shoot down a Chinook military helicopter in Afghanistan, the Pentagon is now reconsidering landing the crafts in battle zones, McClatchy reports. The Chinook is vulnerable and slow during landings, exposing...
Mexican law prohibits foreign armed forces to operate within the country without Congressional approval, but a new report claims that the United States has agents inside the country fighting in the "war on drugs," and is planning to send even more as private...
He may have been released from the hospital yesterday, but Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh will not be returning to his country, "US sources" say. Saudi paper Asharq al-Awsat reports Saleh has backed down under US pressure and could remain in Saudi Arabia, where...
Wardak province isn't a friendly one for foreign troops: the locals loathe the foreign presence and credit the the brutal drone attacks that often kill civilians for the Taliban's popularity. This past Saturday in the province, the Taliban shot down a helicopter and...
Four NATO troops were killed in Afghanistan a day after the Taliban took responsibility for the shootdown of a helicopter that killed 30 US soldiers, their translator, and seven Afghan troops. Some of the dead included the very SEAL team that killed Osama bin Laden....
A day after NATO said it would send another 700 troops to "keep peace" in North Kosovo, it has ended up inflaming tensions between ethnic-Serb locals and the Albanian-run government. Last Tuesday, Kosovo sent Albanian policemen to border posts in the north to extend...
Sparked by the Albanian-dominated government as a power-grab in the Serb-majority north, the unrest in North Kosovo has convinced NATO to send another 700 armed peacekeepers to the territory. Pristina aimed to start a trade war with Belgrade by taking over border...
