Dozens of demonstrators rally at the future site of the construction of Israel's barrier wall near the West Bank village of Bil'in every week. Regularly, those protesters are met with Israeli soldiers who violently disperse their rallies. Yet every week the protesters...
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak's decision to finally allow a convoy of humanitarian aid trucks to enter the Gaza Strip doesn't sit well with MP Arye Eldad. The head of the minor Hatikva party today called for Attorney General Menahem Mazuz to indict Barak for...
While last month Israeli President Shimon Peres expressed hope that President-elect Barack Obama would be able to unite the world and force Iran to the bargaining table, he has now told Japan's Kyodo News that he hopes Obama delays those talks. Instead, Peres would...
Pakistani troops mass along India’s border… is it a prelude to war or a ploy to silence international criticism?
A daring prison break at Forsan police station in the city of Ramadi has left 10 police and six prisoners dead, and some 20 prisoners still on the run. Early this morning, prisoners killed a police captain with a makeshift knife to get out of their cell, then killed...
Less than a month ago, German General Hans-Cristoph Ammon declared the effort to train Afghanistan's police, Germany's whole raison d'etre in the seemingly endless war, "a miserable failure," and said that at the current rate of progress "it would take 82 years to...
The Associated Press announced today that it had obtained the "Homeland Security Threat Assessment" for the years 2008-2013. Though it was unclear who the intended audience for the "official use only" document was, it predicts virtually every disaster imaginable in...
In less than a week, the United Nations Mandate for Iraq will expire, and US forces in the nation will be bound by the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) agreed to by the Iraqi government and the Bush Administration earlier this year. The new rules will be a major...
Egyptian Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit says his nation will not stop its efforts to broker a new truce between Hamas and the Israeli government, but admits "I cannot imagine that we can convince the two sides to go back to the calm." Indeed, the escalation of both...
Israeli military waiting for a sunny day to start invasion of the Gaza Strip
