CAIRO - Almost six months after the popular uprising that led to the ouster of former president Hosni Mubarak, the honeymoon between protesters and Egypt's ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) - initially portrayed as a "defender of the...
Former ‘Antiwar’ Leader Shills for Obama
How Not to Make Friends in the Greater Middle East
Thursday: 3 Iraqis Killed, 5 Wounded
War Increasingly Spills Over Into Classrooms
UNITED NATIONS — The most pressing global challenge to children's rights may be the increasing number of military attacks on schools in war zones, according to a Human Rights Watch report released Wednesday. "It's an issue that we now want to get more attention to...
Hillary Cracks the Whip
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was at it again last week. She was in Turkey attending a NATO gathering dealing with what to do about the succession in Libya, based on the perhaps erroneous assumption that Muammar Gadhafi is on his way out. Clinton and NATO...
Bitter Divides Persist Below Bahrain’s Relatively Calm Surface
When Bahraini ambassador Houda Ezra Nonoo arrived in Washington three years ago, she was greeted as the representative of a close U.S. ally with a reputation for more openness and tolerance than most Gulf nations. Nonoo was also a novelty as a woman representing an...
Thursday: 6 Iraqis Killed, 12 Wounded
No Early End to Libya War Expected
Fortified by formal U.S. recognition as Libya's legitimate government, fighters loyal to the rebel Benghazi-based Transitional National Council (TNC) made a key advance Monday by reportedly gaining control of most of the eastern oil port of Brega. But whether that...
Execution Videos Strike Terror in Pakistan
PESHAWAR — A video showing a group of 16 Pakistani policemen, hands tied behind their backs, being executed by Taliban gunmen in the Dir district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is only the latest in a series showing brutal acts designed to strike terror in the areas bordering...