Kosovo is falling apart at the seams, with it thousands of its citizens seeking desperately to escape life there by any means possible. Haven’t heard about that one? Perhaps that’s because the U.S. is almost wholly responsible for creating an independent...

A report released by Minority Rights Group International outlines the abuses and war crimes that minority ethnic groups in Iraq are suffering at the hands of Islamic State militants. At least 43 people were killed and 47 were wounded.

If the sadists of ISIS are seeking – with their mass executions, child rapes, immolations, and beheadings of Christians – to stampede us into a new war in the Middle East, they are succeeding. Repeatedly snapping the blood-red cape of terrorist atrocities in our faces...

Amid all the propaganda masquerading as "news" about our endless "war on terrorism," what's interesting is that the most recent interventionist blitz over ISIS, or the self-proclaimed "Islamic State," has had a surprisingly minimal...

Coalition airstrikes killed civilians in Anbar province. At least 224 people were killed and 63 more were wounded across Iraq.

Truly, US President Barack Obama’s recent call to address the root causes of violence, including that of the so-called "Islamic State" (IS) and al-Qaeda was a step in the right direction, but still miles away from taking the least responsibility for the...

Though the war on drugs is far from over, recreational marijuana is now legal in three US states. This week, Alaska joined Washington state and Colorado in dialing back the conflict has been a staggering human rights violation, and fuel for the US’s increasingly...

Gen. John Allen testified before the U.S. Congress on Wednesday. He said the Islamic State militants have lost half their leaders in Iraq. He also warned that the militant group cannot be completely eradicated, but its operational abilities can be reduced significantly.

Walter B. Jones is seventy-two years old, but the feisty Republican congressman representing North Carolina's third congressional district has no plans to retire. Asked by Roll Call if he's going to be running again, he answered "Absolutely!" and said...

Originally posted at TomDispatch. My drone is yours, compadre! Or so Washington has now decided. The latest promise of good times in the arms trade comes from an administration that has pioneered a robotic assassination regime organized out of the White House (though...