Foreign powers are likely to intervene militarily in Mali after al-Qaeda-linked militants took control of some of the territory, according to France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. "In the north, at one moment or another there will probably be the use of force,"...
Two high-profile defections from the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad have reignited US calls for Assad to step down, as Russia continues to block international efforts that leave open the possibility of military intervention. Nawaf Fares, Syria's ambassador to Iraq,...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has discussed the possibility of forming a transitional government as proposed by an international summit in Geneva last month, UN envoy Kofi Annan said on Wednesday. Annan said that Assad told him last week that he would consider a...
Russia has dispatched eleven warships to the eastern Mediterranean, some of which will dock in Syria, in Moscow's latest attempt to display Russian power in the region and ward off a Western intervention in Syria. About half of the ships are capable of carrying...
Detainees inside the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay were forcibly injected with powerful "mind altering drugs" and then interrogated, according to a declassified report obtained by Truthout through a Freedom of Information Act Request. Some of the drugs, which...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 's policies over the last three years have drawn tens of thousands of Israelis into the West Bank, causing the Jewish population in Palestinian territory to increase by 18 percent. The number of Jewish settlers that the Israeli...
The US is clinging to a controversial policy of training local Afghan militias to carry on the task of keeping order beyond the 2014 date for withdrawal of foreign troops. But the armed gangs are not winning hearts and minds and US support may be laying the groundwork...
Russia on Monday said it would not sign new weapons contracts with Syria until the bloody conflict there calms down, but the US and its allies continue to send arms to the violent rebel militias. Vyacheslav Dzirkaln, deputy chief of the Russian military and technical...
Nuclear negotiators for Iran and the P5+1 are scheduled to meet in Istanbul on July 24th, as technical experts for each side continue international negotiations that stalled in their third round last month in Moscow. "The objective for the meeting of [Deputy EU...
Two US agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration shot and killed a man in Honduras last week who was suspected of drug smuggling, in the third instance since May of DEA involvement in the killing of suspects in the troubled Latin American country. The shooting...
