Bahraini riot police attacked anti-government protesters with teargas on Monday after the funeral of a teenager killed by police last week, as violence in the Gulf state increases in the run-up to the anniversary of the uprising. Bahrain's Shi'ite Muslim majority has...
The Obama administration will begin talks with the Iraqi government on a new long-term defense agreement that may include an expanded number of U.S. troops, according to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's chief policy aide. The scope and depth of the new defense...
Israel’s high court has made several recent decisions that "aim to legitimize clear violations of Israel’s international legal obligations" and undermine human rights, Human Rights Watch said Monday. In one decision this month, the court upheld the constitutionality...
Iranian lawmakers have finalized a draft legislation mandating an immediate ban on oil exports to Europe, preempting the European Union’s embargo on Iranian oil six months before it sets in. “As long as the EU doesn’t lift the oil embargo, we won’t give them a drop of...
Recent clashes in the Libyan town of Bani Walid seem to have ousted the "freedom fighters" NATO fought with to oust former dictator Muammar Gadhafi. The residents, who militias claimed to have liberated, rose up against the former rebels. The militias, fighters for...
The Pentagon has decided that its largest conventional bomb isn't capable of destroying Iran's underground nuclear enrichment facilities and has ordered efforts to make it more powerful. The 30,000-pound "bunker-buster" bomb, known as the Massive Ordnance Penetrator,...
The Arab League has announced it will suspend its monitoring mission in Syria due to an upsurge in violence, although the monitors would remain in the country. The mission began in December when the Arab League sent observers to monitor compliance by the regime of...
The U.S. is in talks with the government of the Philippines about re-establishing a military presence in the country about two decades after the U.S. closed its bases there. The Obama administration initiated the talks with the aim of increasing joint war drills in...
Iran is preempting the European Union's embargo on their oil, deciding to cut off exports to Europe six months before the embargo is set to take place. The EU embargo on Iranian oil, pushed stringently by the United States, was delayed for six months to let...
Thousands of abandoned trucks are backed up at the port of Karachi in Pakistan two months after Islamabad closed the supply routes NATO has used to send supplies to troops in Afghanistan. Pakistan closed the supply routes in November after U.S. warplanes bombed two...
