The US has again warned the Iranian dissident group Mujahadin-e Khalq (MEK) that they must vacate vacate the Iraqi base Camp Ashraf and said if they don't leave it will harm their chances of being delisted from the State Department's list of terrorist organizations....
Iran is trying to sell some of its oil through a private consortium in an attempt t circumvent the US-led international sanctions regime inflicting enormous pain on the Iranian economy. "The head of the oil products exporters' union," reports Reuters, "said the...
Israeli Mossad agents are themselves the ones that have been assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists, not Iranian dissidents working for Israel, according to a new book by veteran US and Israeli journalists. CBS reporter Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman, a former...
Libya's first election in six decades reportedly had a high voter turnout, but the day was plagued by still-formed rebel militias committing acts of violence and sabotage and preventing over 100 polling stations from opening. There have been reports of protesters...
Facing little or no progress on his latest plan to stem the violence in Syria, UN envoy Kofi Annan said in an interview Saturday that the efforts so far have failed and that foreign meddling in the conflict has worsened the violence. In a meeting in Geneva last week...
The true casualty figures of US drone strikes in Yemen "don't always match up" with "the official version of events," according to an investigation by National Public Radio. Visiting the site of an airstrike in the southern town of Jaar that took place in May,...
WikiLeaks on Thursday began publishing a cache of emails "from Syrian political figures, ministries and associated companies, dating from August 2006 to March 2012." "Over the next two months," the WikiLeaks website explained, "ground-breaking stories derived from the...
The international sanctions regime placed on Iran has cut the country's oil exports almost in half, as the US and its allies develop a harder line after several rounds of nuclear negotiations. In 2011, Iran was exporting an average of 2.2 million barrels of oil per...
Another Afghan soldier has shot and wounded five US soldiers in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, in the latest sign that the training mission in Afghanistan is an utter failure. The attack took place at a NATI base in Wardak province, east of Kabul. The NATO officials...
Iran has warned Washington that it could retaliate after any unilateral attack it sustains and destroy US military bases across the Middle East and target Israel within minutes following an uptick in threatening postures from the US and Israel. "These bases are all in...
