Violence has not abated in Syria one day after 70 countries met in Tunisia and demanded a ceasefire and just a day before a constitutional referendum that the opposition sees as a thinly veiled maneuver from President Bashar Assad's regime. The Syrian Observatory for...
NATO abruptly pulled all its staff from the Afghanistan's government ministries on Saturday after two high-ranking U.S. military advisers were shot dead inside a highly secure command center at the interior ministry in Kabul by an Afghan police officer. The Taliban...
A recent investigation by the Associated Press into ten U.S. drone attacks in the tribal regions of Pakistan concluded that about 70 percent of those killed were militants, countering common Pakistani perceptions that the majority killed are civilians. Reporters from...
If Israel decides to preemptively strike Iran's nuclear facilities, a subservient United States could be drawn into another unnecessary but substantial war in the Middle East. If Israel's warplanes, donated from the U.S., managed to penetrate Iranian air space and...
A classified State Department cable sent by America’s top diplomat in Tel Aviv in 2005 warned that Israeli officials believed Iran’s progress towards a nuclear weapon was nearing the "point of no return," echoing current U.S.-Israeli tensions regarding intelligence...
The intelligence community in the United States believe there is no hard evidence that Iran has decided to build a nuclear bomb, the New York Times finally reported on Saturday. The New York Times ran a front page article on Saturday reiterating the consensus view of...
Massive protests over the U.S. military's burning of Muslim holy books have caused two dozen deaths in Afghanistan and has now spread to Pakistan, where anti-American sentiment has hit unprecedented levels. Afghan protesters tried to storm a U.S. consulate in Herat...
The nations making up the "Friends of Syria" group meeting in Tunisia are expected to call for the United Nations to send "peacekeeping" forces if and when the Assad regime agrees to a cease-fire. The United States, European and Arab nations, almost 70 in all, are...
In its latest report, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog said it continues to have serious concerns about a possible military dimension to Iran's nuclear program, despite the highly questioned November report and U.S. intelligence to the contrary. In a confidential document,...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday threatened more international troops and sanctions against anyone in Somalia that attempts to block so-called “reforms” which the U.S. and its allies are claiming intend to end conflict in the country. “The position of...
