Ron Paul placed third in the Iowa Republican Caucuses, trialing closely behind Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. The only antiwar candidate reaped tens of thousands votes in the first campaign event of the pro-war party. Paul didn’t come in first place, due apparently to...
Five alleged members of a Mexican drug gang were tortured by Mexican police after being detained in the killings of two agents and a car-bomb attack in Ciudad Juarez. The abuse has become typical of the Washington-backed approach Mexico has been taking in its "war on...
As Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak returns to trial this week there is speculation that his charges of corruption and mass murder will be dropped. Egyptian prosecutors are currently preparing their final arguments at a court in Cairo, where the former U.S....
A representative from Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is indicating the 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty may be reconsidered and put to a popular referendum. "People will express their opinions on it," said Rashad Bayoumi, deputy Supreme Leader of the Brotherhood whose...
Authorities in Bahrain announced on Friday they will put five police officers on trial in connection with the torture of a detainee who died while in custody. Bahrain's top prosecutor, Nawaf Hamza, said two officers have been charged with torture and mistreatment and...
Three NATO troops were killed by a roadside bomb this week in eastern Afghanistan, the coalition reported on Wednesday. The deaths took place on Tuesday of this week, but information on it was not released immediately, and the International Security Assistance Force...
U.S. investment and business in Iraq quadrupled in 2011, along with huge gains for foreign businesses overall. Iraq's oil industry in particular is attracting foreign companies as Iraq's government spends billions of dollars to upgrade infrastructure to make the...
The new commander of the Guantanamo Bay prison is seeking to impose new rules on communication between detainees and their lawyers, despite stern objections on the grounds that they violate legal ethics and constitutional rights. The proposed rules, still in draft...
The interim government in Libya has so far failed to deal with the issue of disparate groups of militias that remain organized in independent and defiant brigades throughout the country and who are now demanding top roles in government. The militias, basically armed...
The United States is engaged in secret talks with Egypt's military rulers in order to ensure the newly elected Islamic leadership remains faithful to Egypt's peace treaty with Israel, according to top Egyptian opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei. Some in the U.S. and...
