As France recovers from the deadly shootings committed by homegrown jihadist Mohamed Merah, Pakistani intelligence say dozens of French Muslims are training with the Taliban in north-western Pakistan.
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Fidel Castro ‘s latest reflections hints to the danger of a looming US Iran war. Fidel Castro warns that a war with Iran war would be the worst mistake in US history.
The United States, European allies, and Israel all agree that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon, has not decided to build one, and is several years away from having a deliverable nuclear missile.
Were it Syria or Iran, the rhetoric from Washington would be stern, aggressive even. But since the repressive ruling clique is the military junta in Egypt, the lectures are timid – and coupled with a handout. Indeed, as Secretary of State Hillary Cli
At least 943 Pakistani women and girls were murdered last year for allegedly defaming their family’s honor. Highlight the growing scale of violence suffered by many women in conservative Muslim Pakistan, where they are frequently treated as second-cl
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan indicated on Thursday that he believes there should be no American troop draw-downs in 2013, leaving the total at the 68,000 who will remain following scheduled withdrawals this year.
In the wake of recent violent clashes in the Syrian capital Damascus, the country's government has accused Western powers of assisting Qatar and Saudi Arabia with supporting and financing terrorism
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Bahrain’s disgraceful show trial of medical staff is set to continue, with news this week that 20 doctors and nurses are to be retried in a civilian court on trumped-up charges of subversion against the US-backed regime.
In an article posted on the Bloomberg website, the neocon propagandist, Jeffrey Goldberg, tells us an attack on Iran is “historically inevitable” and will not result in World War Three.
A Chinese telecommunications equipment company has sold Iran's largest telecom firm a powerful surveillance system capable of monitoring landline, mobile and internet communications, interviews and contract documents show.
At least eight people including five militants have been killed and five others were injured in two separate incidents of violence in northwest Pakistan.
"There's no forensic evidence."
"There's no medical examiner's evidence. There's no evidence about how many alleged victims or where those remains are."
"So it's fascinating from a defence lawyer's perspective. Prove it."
He was $1.2million in debt after 'defrauding pensioner of life savings'
Claims he was NOT drunk and cannot remember shootings
Captain speaks of admiration for Bales quitting his job after 9/11 to serve
SSG Robert Bales plotted and executed an attack that killed innocent Afghan civilians.
SSG Robert Bales is being sheltered in another nation.
Afghan authorities have demanded he be given to them for punishment.
The sheltering nation has refu
We may never know what drove a US Army staff sergeant to head out into the Afghan night and allegedly murder at least 16 civilians in their homes, among them nine children and three women.
The war in Afghanistan—where the enemy is elusive and rarely seen, where the cultural and linguistic disconnect makes every trip outside the wire a visit to hostile territory
A European Union foreign policy chief drew criticism in Israel on Tuesday over what Israeli leaders said was her comparison of the killing of four Jews at a school in France with the deaths of children in the Gaza Strip.