The US and Australia schemed unsuccessfully in 2005 to block Egyptian Mohamed ElBaradei's election to a third term as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a newly leaked US diplomatic cable shows. The cable describes a conversation between Australian...
Hundreds of Mexican soldiers and federal agents have raided casinos in the city of Monterrey, days after an arson attack on a gambling house killed 52 people in a country in which massacres and beheadings at the hands of drugs gangs are all too common. Five suspected...
Palestinians in Gaza have acquired anti-aircraft and anti-tank rockets from Libyan rebels during its six-month civil war, enlarging but not significantly improving their arsenal, Israeli officials said on Monday. Confirming the fears of many US and international...
The Pentagon's use of no-bid contracts to defense industry corporations for war goods and weapons has tripled since 9/11, despite promises to reform the controversial practice. After pledges and orders from President Barack Obama and Defense Department leaders to...
The African Union (AU) has refused to recognize the Transitional national Council (TNC) of Libya as the legitimate government of that country on the basis that rebels in Libya have been indiscriminately killing black Africans, confusing innocent migrant workers with...
Defections within the Syrian army are increasing, as more and more soldiers refuse to fire on civilian protesters. A statement published on the internet by the Free Officers, a group that says it represents defectors, said "large defections" occurred in the Damascus...
As revealed by a State Department diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks last week, US forces committed a heinous war crime during a house raid in Iraq in 2006, wherein one man, four women, two children, and three infants were summarily executed. The cable excerpts a...
Syria's Bashar al Assad is losing his allies and becoming even more isolated after months of violent crackdowns on pro-reform protesters. Unexpectedly, a warning from Syria's staunchest ally came Sunday when Iran urged President Bashar al-Assad to heed the "legitimate...
Libyan rebels continued their search for the fugitive former leader Muammar Gadhafi on Sunday, converging on his hometown of Sirte. NATO war planes struck at the town, 300 miles east of Tripoli on the Mediterranean coast, for a third day on Sunday. The rebel...
Libya's rebel government said Sunday it will not extradite the Libyan man convicted in the 1988 bombing of a U.S.-bound jetliner which killed 270 people when it exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. Abdel Basset al-Megrahi is dying of prostate cancer at his home in...
