Libya's new rulers have been united by little more than wanting to get rid of Muammar Gaddafi and so, as they met world leaders on Thursday following his sudden downfall, the spotlight is now falling on their own divisions. In the confusion of their swift final...
For the first time since the American invasion of Iraq, an entire month has passed without a single United States service member dying. Hailed as a victorious milestone, the achievement merely reveals the failure and disgrace of the Iraq War. Each month in the eight...
Rebel forces and armed civilians are rounding up thousands of black Libyans and migrants from sub-Sahara Africa, imprisoning them in makeshift jails across the capital and accusing them of being mercenaries for Moammar Gadhafi. As the rebels and their Transitional...
Turkey declared Thursday that it would not tolerate another delay in the release of a United Nations report concerning Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in 2010, and warned of consequences including sanctions should Israel continue to refuse to apologize...
As of early August, 650 people had been killed in Acapulco, Mexico in 2011, making it one of the the bloodiest cities in Mexico, due primarily to the drug war. As a key passageway for South American cocaine, the city has long attracted drug gangs, with agents of...
As much as $60 billion in U.S. funds has been lost to waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade through lax oversight, poor planning and payoffs to warlords and insurgents. In its final report to Congress, the Commission on Wartime Contracting said...
A Guardian journalist, David Leigh, has violated a confidentiality agreement with WikiLeaks by disclosing top secret WikiLeaks’ decryption passwords to hundreds of thousands of unredacted unpublished US diplomatic cables. Leigh, an editor at the Guardian and brother...
As a result of a court case in New York, the identities of some of the corporations involved in the Bush administration's rendition program have been disclosed for the first time, along with the names of some of the executives who knew the purpose of the flights....
Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has confirmed that negotiations with the U.S. are taking place, disproving the long-held assumption that a Taliban precondition to talks was American troop withdrawal. While not backing down from his ultimate goal of ousting the...
Libyan rebels are planning to launch an attack within days on Muammar Qaddafi's hometown of Sirte, the ousted Libyan leader's last major bastion of support. Rebels began to converge on Sirte en masse this week, where negotiations with pro-Gadhafi tribal leaders for a...
