UN nuclear watchdog chief Yukio Amano said on Wednesday there continues to be some "activity" around Iran's Parchin military site, although he refused to say what kind of activity or to make any direct allegations that Tehran is hiding anything illicit in its nuclear...
The Israeli military meticulously and callously calculated the number of calories Gaza residents would need to consume in order not to starve, and used those calculations to inform how to impose a harsh economic blockade on the Palestinians, according to newly...
US-led economic sanctions are putting millions of Iranian lives are at risk by blocking the importing of medicines and hospital equipment, according to country's top medical charity. Fatemeh Hashemi, head of the Charity Foundation for Special Diseases, a...
Leaked video of US security contractors in Afghanistan getting blackout drunk and high on narcotics reveals "what former employees say was a pattern of outrageous behavior that put American lives at risk and went undetected by U.S. military officials who are supposed...
Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi is supported by Washington with money and weapons, in part because he allows the US to bomb his country with drones, but Hadi may be losing domestic political support for his accommodative policies towards US aggression. With...
Iraqi Shi'ite militants have crossed the border to fight in Syria, often alongside President Bashar al-Assad's troops, adding to the sectarian nature of the proxy war there. The news that Shi'ite Iraqi militias are fighting in Syria with the Assad regime and against...
In Tuesday night's presidential debate, President Obama countered Mitt Romney's charge that he failed to describe the attack on the US consulate building in Benghazi, Libya last month as a terrorist attack, insisting that he "get the transcript." The town hall style...
The US has begun negotiations with the Kabul government over the extension of troop presence past 2014, despite repeated claims by the Obama administration that the war in Afghanistan will come to an end that year. Vice President Joe Biden, during last week's debate...
Around 80 percent of respondents in a survey of both Israelis and Palestinians say that an Israeli strike against Iran's nuclear facilities would ignite a major regional war. The poll was a joint effort of the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of...
Police brutality in Egypt is as common under the newly elected President Mohammed Morsi as it was under the regime of Hosni Mubarak, a new study finds, raising questions about how much progress the revolution has made. The Nadim Center for the Rehabilitation of...
