Israel-Palestinian peace talks were already pretty well dead last weekend, when Israel officially reneged on their promise to release Palestinian prisoners, and efforts to save it look to be faltering too, with Israel reluctant to agree on even a par
The Barack Obama administration appears to have rejected a deal-breaking demand by Israel for an Iranian confession to having had a covert nuclear weapons program as a condition for completing the comprehensive nuclear agreement.
The 2.6 million Americans who volunteered to fight on IED-laden battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan have returned home with a panoply of problems borne out of their service.
The United Nations adopted a resolution, jointly presented by Pakistan, Yemen and Switzerland, against drone strikes. 6 countries including the USA, France and Britain voted against the resolution, but fell short in majority to get it disposed of.
We recently reported of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdoğan’s effort to silence the social media service Twitter to repress dissent within Turkey. Now, the courts in Turkey are beginning to reverse some of these efforts.
President Obama is considering allowing shipments of new air defense systems to the Syrian opposition as Obama sought to reassure Saudi Arabia's king that the US is not taking too soft a stance in Syria and other Mideast conflicts.
If you take politicians and the mainstream media seriously, you believe that Iran wants a nuclear weapon and has relentlessly engaged in covert efforts to build one.
BBC 'total fabrication from beginning to end' of Syria 'atrocity'; call to revoke visas for intel agents posing as reporters in NATO targets; CIA caught infiltrating CNN, and Operation Mockingbird is back.
On Thursday night the Turkish government blocked access to Twitter after leaked phone conversations and documents related to government officials appeared on the popular social network.
Just in the nick of time last fall, the American people finally put their collective foot down, and took away Obama’s keys to the Tomahawk Missile batteries.
• http://original.antiwar.com, by Margaret Griffis
At least 98 people were killed and 34 more were wounded across Iraq. In Diyala province, security forces are trying to prevent militants from taking over Buhriz.
Turkey has shot down a Syrian fighter jet near its border Sunday after the plane crossed into Turkish air space. Syrian activists said the incident occurred close to an area where Syrian rebels have been battling President Bashar al-Assad's forces