Originally posted at TomDispatch. Since November 2002, when a CIA drone strike destroyed the SUV of “al-Qaeda's chief operative in Yemen,” Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi (“U.S. kills al-Qaeda suspects in Yemen”), it’s been almost 13 years of...

Regime change is a complex and messy thing. Attempts at regime change always involve three parties: the government who desires to carry out the regime change, the regime it wishes to change, and the domestic group meant to replace the current regime or at least...

President Barack Obama decided this week against achieving a final agreement before the expiration of the July 10 deadline, which would have limited the period of Congressional consideration of the agreement. The motivation was the desire to neutralize criticism that...

Baghdad suffered several bombing attacks on Sunday but, in good news, the World Bank has agreed to supply Iraq with some reconstruction funds. The World Bank has agreed to lend the Iraqi government $350 million to fund emergency infrastructure repair in towns rescued...

At least 121 people were killed and 76 were wounded across Iraq in the latest violence, which included a mass execution.

Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani asked neighboring countries to help stop the flow of militants into Iraq. At least 154 were killed and 38 more were wounded in fresh violence.

There's a group of GOP presidential aspirants who have a next-to-zero chance of clinching the nomination who've decided that their main issue, the central organizing principle of their campaigns, is going to be needling Rand Paul. While Lindsey Graham is competing for...

On Wednesday, ABC news reported that George W. Bush earned $100,000 from a 2012 speech. He also charged $20,000 for a private jet to the event. As nauseating as that figure is – plus another $50,000 for a previous Laura Bush speech –   the news has earned more...

The Iran nuclear talks may be getting close to some sort of conclusion in Vienna, but American political and policy elites remain, to an appallingly large extent, clueless as to what is really at stake in the negotiations. (This was a significant theme yesterday in...

At least 168 were killed and 59 more were wounded: In Baghdad, a car bomb killed seven people and wounded 18 others in one of two attacks in Zaafaraniya. In the second attack, a sticky bomb killed two militiamen. A blast in Bayaa killed three people and wounded nine...