The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan has admitted killing BBC reporter Ahmed Omed Khpulwak in July. Khpulwak was one of 19 people killed when US-NATO forces battled insurgents in the town of Tarin Kowt in southern Uruzgan...
The United States is giving weapons and legitimacy to thugs and murderous warlords in Somalia, some with ties to al Qaeda and al Shabab. The US-sponsored African Union force, currently occupying large swaths of Mogadishu, has a membership more prone to blowback than...
A senior Republican lawmaker urged President Obama to publicly promise to veto the Palestinian bid for membership at the United Nations, charging that a "full court press" to block the Palestinian right to statehood was not being seen. The Palestinian Authority plans...
An as yet unpublished United Nations report criticizes the US-supported Afghan government for torturing detained prisoners with beatings, sexual assault, and electric shock treatment. The report recommends NATO to suspend prisoner transfers to some detention...
The Obama administration has endorsed a plan that would keep 3,000-4,000 American troops in Iraq past the December deadline to withdraw, although the full remaining presence there will be much larger. Just how large isn't yet certain, but the numerous agencies and...
A State Department diplomatic cable from 2002 details US Ambassador Jim Nicholson's meeting with then Vatican Middle East Director Tomasso Coppola, and which warns the State Department that "we should expect vocal, public criticism of any military action against...
The New York Police Department secretly gathered intelligence on more than 250 mosques and student groups in the New York area in one of the nation's most aggressive domestic surveillance programs since the September 11th terrorist attacks. A secret squad known as the...
Turkey is suspending military ties and defense industry contracts with Israel after their refusal to apologize for the deaths of Turkish activists on board the Gaza aid flotilla last summer. Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has threatened further...
In an attempt to hide the Afghan government's military dependency on the United States, the US is sending $2.7 billion of military equipment to the beleaguered, corrupt Afghan government. But neither government can afford it. Preceding the NATO pull out in 2014, the...
Negev Bedouin Palestinians are turning to the United Nations to help prevent Israel from approving the forcible eviction, home demolition, and relocation of between 20,000 and 30,000 residents of territory unrecognized by Israel as Palestinian. On the instructions of...
