The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security have issued nationwide advisories about possible al Qaeda threats from small airplanes, less than a week before the 10-year anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. Despite...
United States Special Operations Forces are carrying out counter-terror and counter-insurgency operations in the Philippines against an elusive group of so-called terrorists, numbering at no more than 12 individuals. The ongoing mission mirrors the wasteful and...
Syrian security forces randomly shot open rounds at crowds attending funeral processions in Homs on Saturday, killing at least six people and wounding many others. The funeral processions were being held for those killed in crackdowns on pro-democracy protesters the...
The government of the Philippines is one of the biggest recipients of US military aid in all of Asia, despite recently hosting one of the worst waves of human rights violations in its history. Numerous embassy cables released by WikiLeaks acknowledge systematic...
Nigeria has passed sweeping anti-terrorism legislation giving its president the power to declare any group a terrorist organization, imprison convicted members for as long as 20 years, and search without a warrant. Even so called "moral assistance" for such designated...
The Turkish navy will significantly increase its presence in the eastern Mediterranean and plans to escort civilian ships carrying aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as part of a "more aggressive strategy" following the release of the UN Palmer report on the 2010...
The Central Intelligence Agency rendered terrorism suspects to Muammar Gadhafi's Libya, knowing they would be tortured, according to documents uncovered in Tripoli. The documents were found by the Human Rights Watch in the abandoned offices of Libya's former spy chief...
A secret State Department diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks has revealed that one of the primary reasons behind Israeli objections to Palestinian statehood is that lack of statehood keeps Palestinian territories outside the jurisdiction of the International...
More than five years after the American military denied claims that its troops had executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians in cold blood, new evidence has emerged in a WikiLeaks diplomatic cable, reported here at Antiwar.com, that the truth is much different. The version...
Top secret documents from the Muammar Gadhafi regime were smuggled out of Libya's intelligence headquarters by al Jazeera which detail meetings between former assistant secretary of state under George W. Bush David Welch as late as August 2, 2011. Welch was the man...
