After coordinated attacks in Iraq killed at least 97 Iraqis and wounded another 348, authorities imposed a curfew in the northern-central Iraqi province of Salah al-Din. That province saw three car bombs, killing four and wounding at least 21 people. The apparently...
An average of four hundred people are displaced in every day in Afghanistan, bringing the total displaced population to approximately 500,000, according to Amnesty International. The worsening humanitarian situation in Afghanistan, and specifically the displacement of...
Some members of Israel's right-wing Likud party are pushing a bill in the Knesset that would annex more than 60 percent of the occupied Palestinian territory in the West Bank. The plan, introduced by former Yesha Council Director Naftali Bennett, would unilaterally...
The Obama administration’s top Pentagon lawyer on Wednesday said that courts have no business questioning executive branch decisions about whom to target for extra-judicial execution in the war on terror, even if that target is an American citizen. "Belligerents who...
Two U.S. troops have been shot to death and four others wounded by an Afghan Army solider who turned his gun on his American trainers apparently in response to the burning of Qurans at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan. An Afghan official told CBS News that the...
U.S. and European officials have quietly rejected recent reports of some sort of tactical cooperation between the Iranian government and al-Qaeda. For years, propaganda reports have randomly cropped up alleging an Iran-Qaeda connection, although very little evidence...
Iran will never seek nuclear weapons, declared Iran's Supreme Leader in Tehran on Wednesday in a meeting with the director and officials of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran. "The Iranian nation has never pursued and will never pursue nuclear weapons," said...
Israel on Wednesday approved the construction of 695 new housing units in and around the West Bank settlement of Shiloh, north-east of Ramallah. Up to 121 of the housing units already exist - 93 of them without government authorization. These Israel retroactively...
Yemenis voted on Tuesday in a referendum on a transition deal to formally depose former President and longtime U.S. client Ali Abdullah Saleh and elect his deputy Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, who was the only name on the ballot, as President. The voting was beset by deadly...
U.S.-supported militias in Somalia are recruiting and abusing child soldiers along with al-Shabab militants, according to a recent report from Human Rights Watch. The report is based on 164 interviews with Somali children who have been abducted, recruited, raped, and...
