President Obama's deployment of 100 US combat forces to Uganda and surrounding areas has shocked many as highly unusual and even downright bizarre. But while ground troops in Africa are a comparatively rare occurrence, the decision follows a very familiar path of...
President Barack Obama is sending about 100 US combat troops to Africa to hunt down and fight the leaders of the Christian rebel militant group the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in and around Uganda. "I have authorized a small number of combat-equipped U.S. forces to...
Whether or not Iran's leadership knew about the alleged plot to assassinate a Saudi ambassador in Washington, they should be held accountable in any event, President Obama insisted on Thursday. Skeptical backlash from Iran experts on the US government's official...
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) Wednesday issued a subpoena to Attorney General Eric Holder and other Justice Department officials over the gun-trafficking operation, dubbed "Operation Fast And Furious." "Top Justice...
United States officials in the Obama administration and Justice Department have explicitly claimed that Iran's supreme leader and the Quds Force covert operations unit were likely aware of the so-called terror plot to kill Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United...
The Philippine army has fabricated stories that children taken into custody are rebel “child warriors,” Human Rights Watch has reported, urging the Philippine government to end the practice. In each of the cases investigated, the army made a media spectacle of the...
Israeli forces demolished for the third time a mosque in a remote Bedouin village in the northeast of the West Bank on Tuesday. The mosque and its surroundings had been previously razed by Israeli forces last February and before that in November 2010. In a statement...
Opium production is expected to rise 61 per cent this year in Afghanistan and the value of the crop will more than double, according to a United Nations report released Tuesday. The US-imposed drug enforcement and opium eradication programs have always had detrimental...
The government of Bahrain continued its harsh crackdown on citizens' rights to free speech and freedom of assembly by fining the editor of Bahrain's main opposition newspaper and three staff members for supposedly publishing "false reports." The Al Wasat newspaper...
The Justice Department on Tuesday made vague accusations that "factions of the Iranian government" conspired in a plot to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador to the United States. Manssor Arbabsiar, a 56-year-old US citizen who also holds an Iranian passport, was charged...
