If the terrorist Iranian dissident group Mujahadin-e Khalq (MeK) can't find someplace to go after being evicted from its base in Iraq, the United States may remove the group from the State Department's terrorist list. The MEK has a long history of terrorist activity...
Many Afghans who have divorced themselves from the insurgency in return for money and jobs from Kabul are turning back to fighting with the Taliban, disillusioned by the government's broken promises. The corruption and ineptitude of the U.S.-backed government in Kabul...
The House of Representatives approved a bill on Monday that outlaws protests or civilian intrusions in any area where government officials are nearby, tearing away at the First Amendment right to peaceably assemble. The new legislation would make it a federal offense...
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano defended Washington's failed war on drugs and vowed to continue to support brutal Latin American governments claiming to combat the producers and traffickers of narcotics. At a joint news conference with Mexican...
The U.S. launched a drone strike in the southern Philippines early this month that reportedly killed 15 members of the Islamic terrorist groups Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah, raising concerns about the legality of U.S. drones in the country. One of those killed was...
Iran seeks peaceful negotiation and a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said in a statement to the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. Salehi said that the majority of Middle East states, including Iran and...
Millions of dollars used by the New York City Police Department to put entire Muslim communities under surveillance came directly from the White House, although it was allocated to fight drug crimes. The White House on Monday said it has no opinion about how the money...
The revolutionary movement in Yemen sparked by the youth has been somewhat neutered after the U.S.-backed transfer deal left Yemenis with a purportedly "transitional" government and an abiding Saleh-like dictatorship. The youth activists were the driving force behind...
The prime minister of the government of Somalia, which has control over parts of the capital Mogadishu, promised the West a share in its oil riches in exchange for security and reconstruction in an interview this week. Significant oil reserves have been discovered in...
Taliban militants in Pakistan's tribal area of North Waziristan have taken credit for the downing of a U.S. drone aircraft after it crashed near the Afghan border on Saturday. "The drone today in Machikhel was flying at low altitude and our fighters fired at and shot...
