The Obama administration's initiative to set up a new Syrian opposition council, possibly to serve as an interim government following the fall of the Assad regime, appeared to have failed on Thursday before the convention in Qatar even began. One day before the...
Accused WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning offered in a motion hearing on Wednesday to plead guilty to parts of the charges he faces, in exchange for government prosecutors pursuing lesser charges. According to statement issued by Manning's attorney, David Coombs,...
Ballot initiatives in Colorado and Washington state legalized marijuana, while Massachusetts further decriminalized it, in decisions that could open the door for countries in Central America to defy the Obama administration and push through their own legalization...
Four US funded and trained Afghan Local Police were found guilty of rape on Wednesday, in one of the first instances of the thuggish militia group being held to account for its actions. The four police officers, from Kunduz Province in northern Afghanistan, were...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his political allies are scrambling since President Obama's reelection, after having spent much of the campaign season staunchly pro-Romney. “This is probably not a very good morning for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,”...
The US-supported dictatorship in Bahrain has revoked the citizenship of 31 leading opposition activists for allegedly "undermining state security." "Those affected include Jawad and Jalal Fairuz, former MPs for the leading Shia movement, al-Wifaq, and Ali Mushaimaa,...
Americans reelected President Barack Obama on November 6th for four more years, giving so-called "mandate" to unconstitutional war, an expanding secret drone program, codification of indefinite detention, and widespread government secrecy. In fact, the mandate for...
UK Prime Minister David Cameron says he would support offering Syrian President Bashar al-Assad safe passage out of Syria if it meant he would step down. Many leaders in the US and its top allies have so far refrained from talking about offering Assad safe passage....
Afghanistan's election commission has set the date for the 2014 elections, but Afghans are not confident the election will be fair or legitimate. The Afghanistan Independent Election Commission announced last week that the vote for president and parliament will take...
Five bombs exploded in the Bahraini capital Manama on Monday, although responsibility has not been discerned, in an indication that the 21-month pro-democracy uprising has taken a turn for the worst. The bombs were very small and killed two Asian street cleaners,...
