One month before what may be an historic United Nations showdown over Palestinian statehood, both Palestinian and Israeli authorities are bracing for the possibility of mass street protests that some fear could spiral into a violent uprising. Palestinian leaders are...
Attack on NATO Fuel Depot Kills Four in Afghanistan | Drone collision raises concerns about unmanned warplanes
Claims: Palestinians May ‘Soften’ Statehood Bid at UN | Secret EU talks aim at compromise short of independence
Report: FBI Investigates Threats to Syrians in US | Regime critics report death threats
The moral standing of the United States of America has deteriorated in the decade since 9/11. Ten years of unnecessary and calamitous war, torture, indefinite detention, warrantless surveillance, and hubris has degraded its standing as a steadfast defender of liberty...
Panetta Vows ‘Long-Term’ Iraq Relationship | ‘We’ve invested a lot of blood in that country’
Yemeni Opposition Forms ‘National Council’ | Council aims to unite separatists, defectors, tribesmen
Kurdish Rebels Claim Eight Troops Killed as Turkey Bombs Northern Iraq | First Turkish attack on Iraq this year
Syria Regime Holds Hundreds Prisoner in Latakia Soccer Stadium | Attacks Spread to Aleppo
American officials don't often reference the CIA's pilotless bombing program in Afghanistan and Pakistan, save for the occasional joke. It took "salty" new Pentagon chief Leon Panetta to bring it up in defense of the strategy of tossing bombs at suspected enemies,...
