President Obama quietly told Iran, through Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, that the United States would accept an Iranian civilian nuclear program if Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei can substantiate recent claims that Iran “will never pursue nuclear weapons.”...
Mali’s Tuareg insurgents stepped up fighting after the military coup last month and now have declared independence in the remote north for which they’ve fought for decades. They have thus announced a ceasefire and a partitioning of the country in two. “We, the people...
Mali's Tuareg insurgents stepped up fighting after the military coup last month and now have declared independence in the remote north for which they've fought for decades. They have thus announced a ceasefire after effectively partitioning the country in two. Whether...
The authorities in Libya have rejected a request from the International Criminal Court to hand over Seif al-Islam, son of slain Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi, insisting he be tried in Libya. The ICC has of course condemned this, arguing Seif has a "right to effective...
Major oil companies like Exxon Mobil and Shell are playing politics in Iraq, juggling the autonomous Kurdish north with the central government in Baghdad in fuzzy legal limbo in an attempt to capitalize on their contracts made possible by Washington's war of...
Former CIA officer John Kiriakou has been formally indicted for leaking classified information to reporters, in the latest development of the Obama administration's war on whistleblowers. Kiriakou, who served as an intelligence officer from 1990 until 2004 and was...
A rocket fired into a southern Israeli resort city early Thursday came from Egypt's Sinai desert, according to Israeli authorities.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Sinai was becoming a "terror zone." No injuries were reported from the attack and no claim of...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced German poet and Nobel Prize laureate Guenter Grass on Thursday for writing that Israel is a threat to world peace and for calling for international oversight of both Israeli and Iranian nuclear facilities. The...
The commander of the NATO-led war in Afghanistan warned on Wednesday of a significant increase in fighting in the country's east this summer. "As I look to reduce the numbers of U.S. forces ... I will use significant combat power in the east, anticipating we are going...
A small group of U.S. military personnel are deployed to Mali “on stand-by,” despite Washington's official suspension of military cooperation following last month's coup, as negotiations for a return to civilian rule supposedly continue. Over the weekend, U.S. Africa...
