The United States, Britain and France will introduce a resolution to the United Nations Security Council this week that would voice support for the Gulf states' plan for Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down from power. The resolution follows dubious...
Detainees in Afghan prisons are hung from the ceilings by their wrists, severely beaten with cables and wooden sticks, have their toenails torn off, are treated with electric shock, and even have their genitals twisted until they lose consciousness, according to a...
Even as the Obama administration promises to end the Afghan war in 2014, their plans to shift the war from one of military occupation to one of targeted violence by CIA and Joint Special Operations forces note a continuing military presence in Afghanistan that could...
At least fourteen additional people were killed Saturday after Syrian security forces opened fire on funeral attendees in the Kurdish north of the country. About 50,000 people attended the funeral of Mishaal al-Tammo, a prominent Syrian Kurdish opposition figure who...
At least 25 insurgents were killed in one of the largest coordinated insurgent attacks in years on US military bases in the eastern Paktia province of Afghanistan, according to NATO officials. The attacks targeted US troops near the border with Pakistan on Friday, as...
Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh said Saturday that he will soon be stepping down from power, relinquishing his position to someone chosen by the people in elections. "I reject power and I will continue to reject it, and I will be leaving power in the coming...
President Barack Obama marked the ten-year anniversary of the war in Afghanistan with a paper statement, claiming to already have made a public speech reflecting the decade of war last month, on the anniversary of September 11th. The statement contained the usual...
A recently released internal Department of Homeland Security document has revealed a controversial program designed to predict whether a person will commit a crime before they have committed it. And it is already being tested on members of the public. DHS is betting...
Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has chosen a new foreign policy adviser. His name is Walid Phares, a Lebanese-American Fox News contributor, and rising pundit known for his hawkish stances. He is called by the hawks that value his belligerence an “expert...
Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney made his first major foreign policy speech Friday at The Citadel, a military college in the important primary state of South Carolina. Full of pomp and belligerence, he called for a century of American dominance. "This...
