JERUSALEM - As thousands of right-wing Israeli settlers descended on Jerusalem to celebrate the so-called unification of the city this week, Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem were confronted by extreme provocations and the stark reality that their city remains...
BEIRUT -- Since pro-democracy protests began over two months ago, Syria has been engaged in a fierce media war -- with journalists arrested and international press banned from entering the country. This has severely curtailed the flow of information out of the...
GAZA CITY -- A gleaming new memorial towers in the center of Gaza City's battered port. Flanked by flags of various nations whose citizens have sailed to the Gaza Strip to highlight the all-out siege on Gaza, the memorial's inscription bears the names of the Turkish...
SANA'A -- It was during moments on our rooftop earlier this week -- seeing flashes in the air and hearing the heavy pounding of gun fire -- when we realized that Yemen's capital city Sana'a was no longer as safe as we had hoped. Violent killings were spreading fast...
Barack Obama, a president with no prior military experience, has so far cowered in the presence of the military and U.S. defense establishment. The most recent example is the passing-over of Gen. James “Hoss” Cartwright to take over the job of Adm. Mike Mullen,...
If in 2008 someone had said that Obama's war policy would be more belligerent and costlier than another round of Bush's, nearly no one would have believed it. Bush started a preventive war in Iraq, killing hundreds of thousands without any credible correlation to U.S....
