The plot thickened in Afghanistan on Wednesday as a meeting with tribal elders ended in death for the mayor of the southern city of Kandahar. US citizen Ghulam Haidar Hamidi, an accountant in Virginia for 30 years before moving back to Afghanistan to take the...
Two policemen were wounded Monday, with one later dying of his injuries, in an operation to extend central control over North Kosovo. Since the region claimed independence in 2008, its largest remaining majority-Serb enclave has resisted rule from the capital,...
A NATO airstrike killed seven people in a hospital in Zlitan, western Libya, on Monday, according to locals and government officials. Medical equipment was visible among the twisted wreckage of the building, the Associated Press reports, after being taken on a...
As Libya's rebels increasingly reveal themselves to be anything but liberal democrats and the Western stomach for war sours, pressure on Gadhafi could be waning. Bernard-Henri Lévy and others with no stake or chance of injury in the Libyan civil war continue to stoke...
Gunmen killed a member of parliament and a top aide to Afghan President Hamid Karzai today in a four-hour battle at the aide's home in Kabul. Former governor of Uruzgan province Jan Mohammad Khan -- who narrowly escaped assassination last year -- and MP Hashim...
Though many of Bahrain's opposition figures continue to stay and fight it out with the oppressive Khalifa monarchy, some figures are choosing to pack up and head for greener pastures. The Khalifas -- backed by Saudi tanks and a Pakistani mercenary army -- aim to bully...
A source within hacker activist group Anonymous told Antiwar.com that media and government targets within Nicaragua and Venezuela may be hit within days, due to rhetorical support for Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi. Yesterday, Nicaraguan President and former...
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood showed up to the revolutionary party late, but this hasn't stopped its "father figure," televangelist Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, from expressing his trademark outspoken opinions. Today, Qaradawi spoke on Al-Jazeera Arabic about the...
Fueled by the success of the people's coups in Egypt and Tunisia, protests rage across the Middle East on dates previously agreed upon by social media-based activists. But in Libya, a country ruled by Col. Muammar Gadhafi for 42 years, it seems oppressed citizens...
The WikiLeaks "cyber war" saw a small salvo fired today at the heartstrings of the whistleblowing plaform's supporters. According to Mike Gogulski of the Bradley Manning Support Network, rumors were spread this morning via Twitter that Pfc. Manning had...
