Various attacks left at least 34 dead and 40 wounded across Iraq today. The violence even touched Iraqi Kurdistan when mortars fell on a home. Five people were killed and 14 more were wounded when a car bomb blasted worshippers exiting a Shi'ite mosque in Madaen....
Brad Pitt’s most successful box office film to date is about a man’s race against time to save the world from zombies. He does this by putting together clues or "crumbs" left behind to puzzle together how the planet was overrun by the undead, and what he has...
Most Americans are probably unaware that over the past two weeks the US has launched at least eight drone attacks in Yemen, in which dozens have been killed. It is the largest US escalation of attacks on Yemen in more than a decade. The US claims that everyone killed...
In its response to Edward Snowden’s revelations about the nature and extent of NSA spying on Americans, the Obama administration has by this time gone through all the stages of grief: denial, reluctant acknowledgment, and – finally – acceptance of the reality that the...
As more and more becomes known about blanket spying by the National Security Agency, one thing is becoming increasingly apparent. Government officials are deliberately and repeatedly misleading Congress and the US public in a concerted effort to conceal as much as...
While Julia Ioffe, a writer for The New Republic and a Russia expert, is no friend of the Putin regime, she knows her stuff – enough to know that Putin doesn’t control everything in Russia. But what does she know about Russia? After all, she was only born there –...
