Senator John Kerry (D-MA), who is the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has said the U.S. needs to step up its intervention in Syria, arguing for setting up "safe zones" and potentially arming and training the opposition. Kerry has so far stopped...
Bahrain vowed on Tuesday to intensify its security crackdown on anti-government protests after Sunni regime terminated negotiations on addressing the political grievances fueling the popular upheaval. Bahraini media have reported a new security plan to "restore...
Talks on establishing a nuclear weapons-free zone (NWFZ) in the Middle East appeared to be thrown in doubt on Tuesday as the Western official organizing negotiations said he could not secure the needed attendance of all countries in the region. The statement by...
The top Republican in Congress on Tuesday called for stepping up U.S. "engagement" and interventionism in Latin America in order to obstruct various bogeymen that pose no threat to America. "The best defense against an expansion of Iranian influence in Latin America -...
U.S. and Yemeni officials have confirmed that the supposed would-be underwear bomber at the heart of an al-Qaeda airliner plot revealed this week was actually an informant working for the CIA and Saudi intelligence all along. Members of the Obama administration spent...
Israel is planning to employ a policy of collective punishment by destroying the family homes of two Palestinians convicted of murdering Jewish settlers in the West Bank. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak approved an intelligence recommendation to raze the houses...
An Afghan soldier shot and killed a U.S. Marine on Sunday, wounding another, in the nineteenth such attack from Afghan forces on NATO soldiers this year. After this latest incident, there have been 12 NATO soldiers killed in 19 such attacks in the first five months of...
The U.S. military has claimed responsibility for an airstrike that killed six innocent members of a family in southwestern Afghanistan and pledged a formal apology would be forthcoming. The attack took place on Friday and was revealed publicly by the governor of...
Islamic militants that are reported to be an offshoot of al-Qaeda have swarmed into Mali following the unrest in recent months and on Saturday desecrated a holy tomb in Timbuktu. The tomb, a UNESCO World Heritage site, was attacked days after elite soldiers failed to...
A key political opponent of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized his hawkish stance on Iran's nuclear program on Saturday, making the issue a central theme in the upcoming elections expected later this year. "It's a most serious mistake to turn the...
