NATO ‘Regrets’ Killing Children in Southern Afghan Attack | Backs off speculation kids might have been Taliban
NATO ‘Regrets’ Killing Children in Southern Afghan Attack
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Israel Counted Minimum Calorie Needs in Gaza Blockade, Documents Reveal
The Israeli military meticulously and callously calculated the number of calories Gaza residents would need to consume in order not to starve, and used those calculations to inform how to impose a harsh economic blockade on the Palestinians, according to newly...
PLO Officials Blast Israeli Move as De Facto West Bank Annexation
PLO Officials Blast Israeli Move as De Facto West Bank Annexation | Cabinet agrees to adopt bulk of Levy Report
US-Led Iran Sanctions Putting Millions of Lives at Risk, Iranian Charity Says
US-led economic sanctions are putting millions of Iranian lives are at risk by blocking the importing of medicines and hospital equipment, according to country's top medical charity. Fatemeh Hashemi, head of the Charity Foundation for Special Diseases, a...
Video Shows Drunk, Stoned US Security Contractors While on Duty
Leaked video of US security contractors in Afghanistan getting blackout drunk and high on narcotics reveals "what former employees say was a pattern of outrageous behavior that put American lives at risk and went undetected by U.S. military officials who are supposed...
Yemeni MP: Drones ‘Prepare the Ground for al-Qaeda’
Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi is supported by Washington with money and weapons, in part because he allows the US to bomb his country with drones, but Hadi may be losing domestic political support for his accommodative policies towards US aggression. With...
Shi’ite Iraqi Militants Fight Rebel Groups in Syria, in Increasingly Sectarian Proxy War
Iraqi Shi'ite militants have crossed the border to fight in Syria, often alongside President Bashar al-Assad's troops, adding to the sectarian nature of the proxy war there. The news that Shi'ite Iraqi militias are fighting in Syria with the Assad regime and against...
UN Investigator: Foreign Jihadists Threaten to Radicalize Syrian Rebellion
UN Investigator: Foreign Jihadists Threaten to Radicalize Syrian Rebellion | Human rights violations ‘escalate dramatically’ on both sides
Obama, Romney Spar Over Whether President Described Benghazi Attack as ‘Act of Terror’
In Tuesday night's presidential debate, President Obama countered Mitt Romney's charge that he failed to describe the attack on the US consulate building in Benghazi, Libya last month as a terrorist attack, insisting that he "get the transcript." The town hall style...
Syrian Rebel Factions Unite Under Umbrella Group
Syrian Rebel Factions Unite Under Umbrella Group | Deal likely won’t include several jihadist factions
