Top rebel commanders in Syria's opposition claimed on Saturday that they had gained control of 60% of the embattled city of Aleppo, where rebel militias and regime forces have been clashing for a week now. Some media sources quote rebels as claiming the opposition...
The rebel militias fighting to topple the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad face a growing list of accusations of executions, murder, and war crimes, but aid and support from the US and its allies continues to flow. The accusations have increased ever since a video...
Mortar shells hit civilian crowds in marketplace in a Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital of Damascus, killing 21 people as regime forces and rebels continued fighting on Friday. The Britain-based Syria Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported the...
Contrary to hyperbolic rhetoric and threats of preemptive attack from the US and Israel, experts still agree there is no imminent prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran, reports the Los Angeles Times. As has been known for several years but only rarely acknowledged in the...
The Pentagon is drawing up new plans to prepare for an air and sea war in Asia, presumably against China, in the Obama administration's most belligerent manifestation yet of the so-called pivot to Asia-Pacific. Fighting counterinsurgency campaigns and building up...
Claims of a new mass killing at the hands of the Syrian government this week came alongside accusations from human rights groups that opposition fighters have engaged in reprisal killings and extrajudicial executions of regime loyalists. As violent as the Assad regime...
The United states is pouring increasing amounts of military funding into client states in Africa to counter trumped up "terrorist" threats from militant groups the Pentagon indiscriminately claims are al-Qaeda-linked. The Pentagon has already sent more than $82...
Kofi Annan is stepping down as UN-Arab League envoy for the Syria conflict at the end of the month, United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon said in a statement, as talks began to find a successor. "Kofi Annan deserves our profound admiration for the selfless way in which he...
Earlier this year, President Obama signed a secret order authorizing US support for rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, according to US officials. Obama's order, known as an intelligence "finding," gives broad authority to the CIA and other...
A US-based human rights group has accused the regime in Bahrain of indiscriminately using tear gas as a weapon against protesters, resulting in severe injuries and even killing of civilians. Physicians for Human Rights published a report on Wednesday...
