Violence and government repression of reform-minded protesters in Bahrain has escalated ahead of the February anniversary of the uprisings, as the Obama administration moves ahead with arms shipments to the despotic dictatorship. Defiant Bahraini protesters have...
Congress this week has passed a bill that will give commercial, private, and military drone aircraft greater access to U.S. airspace that’s currently reserved only for manned planes. By September 30, 2015, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) like the kind used by the CIA...
At least 10 people have been killed and more than 20 people injured after a car bomb exploded near a cafe in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. Somali authorities have called it a suicide attack, and although no group has officially taken credit for it the vehicle was...
A U.S. drone attack fired missiles at a house in Pakistan's northwest tribal region near the Afghan border Wednesday, killing eight people, according to Pakistani intelligence officials. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity, barred from speaking about foreign...
In April 2003, days after the fall of Baghdad, British troops in a pair of RAF CH47 Chinook helicopters were on a mission to transport Iraqi detainees to a prison camp under the cover of darkness. Before the end of the night, one detainee had died on board one of the...
Officials: CIA to Stay in Iraq, Afghanistan for Years After Wars | Baghdad-based CIA spying on Maliki government
Members of the State Department-designated terrorist group known as the Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK) have been welcomed into a former U.S. military base in Iraq thanks to an agreement Washington pushed through with Baghdad. An agreement pushed by the U.S. with the Iraqi...
Embassies in Israel Scramble to Prepare for War | Mass evacuations will be struggle if ‘surprise’ attack happens
The Pentagon and U.S. Central Command have begun a preliminary review of U.S. military options against the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad, as violence throughout the country continues to escalate. The most significant violence is reported to have taken...
Election Season: Yemen’s Only Candidate Starts Campaigning | US-backed general asks for help in ‘noble task’ of running unopposed
