Republican presidential candidates were bombastic in Saturday night's debate on the issue of Iran in light of the most recent U.N. nuclear watch-dog report on the country's nuclear weapons program. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney railed against Obama for...
A Pakistani militant commander in the North Waziristan province threatened Saturday to break an unofficial peace deal with the Pakistani government, prompting concerns of increased violence in the nuclear country. Hafiz Gul Bahadur claimed that American drone strikes...
Iran must respond to the U.N. report suggesting it may have a clandestine nuclear weapons program, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at a Pacific Rim summit in Hawaii. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released a report this week cobbling together...
The U.S. is still engaged in negotiations with Kuwait over redeploying there thousands of U.S. combat troops now exiting Iraq, despite initial push-back from the Gulf state. "Discussions are underway" with Kuwaiti leaders while no final agreement has been reached,...
Mexico's over-reliance on harsh law enforcement and militaristic approaches to the drug war has resulted in a dramatic increase in violence and an unaccountable police and military force that is responsible for widespread human rights violations. Human Rights Watch...
The U.S. is leading an effort to water down an international ban on cluster bombs, weapons that are widely considered to be inherently indiscriminate. The Convention on Cluster Munitions prohibits cluster munitions, requires the destruction of stockpiles within eight...
As U.S. forces begin to leave Iraq, an estimated 2 million widowed Iraqi women are struggling primary breadwinners of their households due to the deadly sectarian violence which erupted after the 2003 invasion. "I wish the war never happened and my husband was still...
Turkish rights groups are investigating claims by Kurdish activists that Ankara used chemical weapons in last month's air raids on separatist militants. Graphic pictures of blackened and dismembered corpses of over 24 members of the Kurdistan's Worker's Party (PKK)...
The Israeli government says it is postponing the dismantlement of illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank, directly contradicting earlier promises to destroy the outposts. The settlement of Givat Assaf is an illegal settlement, but the Israeli government will...
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) "is unable to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran, and therefore to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities," according to a...
