As the troops from President Obama's military surge in Afghanistan now leave the war-torn country, a transition to "Afghan security" is supposed to be taking place, but the war is increasingly seen as a failure. "A decisive end seems nowhere in sight," reports The...
A judge in Britain's High Court is considering a request for a court inquiry into the possible involvement of the UK's spy agencies in the CIA's drone war in Pakistan. Noor Khan, a 27-year-old whose father was killed by a drone strike in northwest Pakistan in March...
The United Nations has decided to set up an investigations unit dedicated to examining the legality of drone attacks and uncovering cases in which civilians are killed in the Obama administration's drone war. The announcement was made by Ben Emmerson, a UN special...
WikiLeaks will begin releasing a new set of secret US government documents on Thursday regarding detainee policies over the past decade. The whistleblowing website will release more than 100 classified or otherwise restricted files from the Department of Defense...
Iran "is weighing a more confrontational strategy" that would "boost levels of uranium enrichment unless the West makes clear concessions to ease sanctions," according to the Associated Press. Mansour Haghighatpour, deputy head of Iran's influential National Security...
A US drone fired two missiles at near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least one person and possibly three, although officials said "It was not clear whether the three dead were men or women or whether they had any link to militancy,"...
When Robert Gibbs, former White House Press Secretary and a senior adviser to the Obama campaign, was asked why the administration killed the 16-year old son of suspected al-Qaeda member and US citizen Anwar al-Awlaki via a drone strike last year, he said it was the...
Four presidential candidates running in third parties and excluded from the major Republican-Democratic debates gathered in Chicago Tuesday night to partake in a debate of their own, discussing issues foreign and domestic. The candidates included Libertarian Party...
The US Army hired private firms to improve the public image of a processor meant to detect buried explosives used by soldiers in Afghanistan who have widely criticized its working capabilities. An internal company email obtained by The Washington Times states that the...
Most Israeli Jews support the establishment of an apartheid regime in Israel if it formally annexes the West Bank, and a majority explicitly favors systematic discrimination against Israeli Arabs, according to a new poll. A new survey conducted by the Israeli data...
