Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, the Speaker of Iraq's parliament, announced his resignation today after a chaotic session of debate on whether to free the now legendary shoe-thrower of Baghdad, journalist Muntadar al-Zeidi. Arguments were reportedly heated, with some MPs...
Coalition of the Willing Down to One by Summer
Israel will dispatch top diplomatic official Major General Amos Gilad to Russia for meetings with high ranking military and diplomatic figures in an attempt to halt a rumored sale of its S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to Iran. The highly advanced system would make...
Muntadar al-Zeidi hospitalized for a broken arm, multiple broken ribs.
Pakistan’s oldest religious party plans to stop NATO supplies from entering Afghanistan
Hamas approves the first bank to be licensed independent of the PMA in the Gaza Strip
The Israeli government held UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Richard Falk for over 20 hours at a Tel Aviv airport, before eventually putting him on an airplane bound for Los Angeles. UN officials complained of the envoy's treatment,...
With widespread reports of US drones looming in the skies over Waziristani villages, sewing panic, it comes as little surprise that tonight one of the drones fired on a house in just outside of Miramshah, in Pakistan's North Waziristan Agency, killing two and injuring...
Back-story on the Arab world’s newest folk hero.
When Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wraps up her final visit to the United Nations tomorrow, it is reported that she will urge the Security Council to authorize "all necessary measures" to combat piracy in Somalia, including allowing foreign militaries to launch...
