A senior official in Syria's Oil Ministry announced in a video message on Thursday that he was abandoning the regime of Bashar al-Assad, in what appeared to be the highest-level defection of a government official since the start of the violence in Syria. Abdu...
Special operations forces from the U.S. and its allies have been on the ground in Syria since at least December, according to confidential emails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor that were released by WikiLeaks. An analyst from Stratfor claimed in December...
The Obama administration has retreated from its initial refusal to stay out of the conflict in Syria by agreeing this week to provide direct humanitarian and communications assistance to the Syrian opposition. While the change in policy did not go as far as providing...
Western powers have agreed to an Iranian request to resume negotiations on its nuclear program, even as politicking GOP presidential candidates and Israel's prime minister kept up the war rhetoric. Writing on behalf of the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN...
Thanks to the ruthless decade-long war, children in Afghanistan suffer one of the highest levels of chronic malnutrition in the world, according to a report released Monday by the World Bank and the government. More than half of Afghan children under the age of five...
The rebel militias with whom the U.S. cooperated to institute regime change in Libya are holding onto captured anti-aircraft missiles as "leverage" to influence the make-up of the nascent central government. "Their ultimate leverage is they're armed," said Andrew...
Several former high-level military and intelligence officials took out a full page ad in Monday's Washington Post urging President Obama to resist pressure to attack Iran nuclear program. The letter retired Army Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, retired Army Lt. Gen. Robert G....
Robust voter turnout in Iran's parliamentary elections may bolster clerical hard-liners according to some reports, evidence that harsh U.S.-led economic sanctions have not boosted support for liberal secularists. Much of the election was focused on Iran's troubled...
Vice President Joe Biden will tour Latin America and meet with heads of state amid growing pressure from the region for a different approach to the failed war on drugs. Political leaders from Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay,...
Opposition activists in Syria claim the Syrian military executed more than 40 soldiers who were planning to defect, according to reports. The opposition Syrian Network for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees of Syria told the media that when a group of...
