The media hates Republicans, and so naturally they’re elevating Texas Governor Rick Perry to the status of a potential 2016 GOP presidential contender who must be taken seriously. After his last embarrassing run – embarrassing not only for him, but for the...

Despite a Sunni attempt to move forward in creating a new government, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki effectively destroyed hope for a quick resolution. Without a solid government in place and strong leadership for the military forces, Iraq will certainly fall further into chaos. At least 105 people died today and 39 more were injured.

Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei’s comments on the nuclear talks Monday provided an unusual glimpse of diplomatic maneuvering by the U.S.-led coalition of five nuclear powers and Germany on the issue of enrichment capability to be allowed in a comprehensive...

In a positive sign that the politics may be moving forward, the Sunni political bloc announced their candidate for the speaker's post. Meanwhile, at least 323 people were killed today and 43 more were wounded. Almost 200 militants were killed during major operations...

Dear President Obama, We must confess, when you became President, some of us were a little worried that America’s "special relationship" with Israel would come to an end. We were concerned that the United States would no longer provide money, weapons, and...

Bombs are falling and people are dying in Gaza. It's headline news in America's mass media. As usual, though, we get only today's events, with no historical context to explain what's really going on and why. The crucial piece of history our mass media ignore is that...

President Obama recently sent a small contingent of American troops back into Iraq in order to support a weak and corrupt Iraqi regime that has been losing territory to a group of rebel fighters known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). The ISIS is a...

On June 28, two events marked the centenary of the fateful shots which ended the lives of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie von Hohenberg. In Sarajevo, the Bosnian Muslim authorities hosted the Vienna Philharmonic, which performed at the same old City Hall...

Human Rights Watch has documented the illegal executions of 255 Sunni prisoners in northern Iraq. Another 96 people were killed today, and 68 more were wounded.

Originally posted at TomDispatch. It sounded like the beginning of a bad joke: a CIA agent and a U.S. Special Operations commando walked into a barbershop in Sana... That’s the capital of Yemen in case you didn’t remember and not the sort of place where...