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here have been numerous reports within the last week of sexual assaults on women at Tahrir Square, assaults involving both security forces and protesters. The Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy, who had taken part in the protests on the squar
Rivals accused the [Muslim] Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party of using handouts of cheap food and medicine to influence voters and of breaking election rules by lobbying outside voting stations.
Egypt's top reformist leader said the liberal youth behind the country's uprising have been "decimated" in parliamentary elections dominated by Islamists and expressed concern about the rise of hard-line religious elements advocating extremist ideas
Thanks to Antiwar Radio's Scott Horton for pointing out this gem by M.J. Rosenberg on the real problem the neo-cons have with Iran: According to Danielle Pletka, head of foreign policy at the neo-con death star American Enterprise Institute:
"Iran's military has downed an intruding RQ-170 American drone in eastern Iran," Iran's Arabic-language Al Alam state television network quoted an unnamed military source as saying. The drone was "downed with minimum damage"
Egypt's military rulers announced Thursday that they're postponing the announcement of election results until Friday or Saturday, CNN is reporting. Officials remain "tight lipped" on confirming expected results announced earlier by Islamist parties i
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Ernest Hancock
Sherif Gaber talks to Ernest from Egypt about the protests, elections, and r3volution that is going on.
US military has been specifically tasked with guarding Afghan poppy fields, from which opium is derived, in order to protect this multibillion dollar industry that enriches Wall Street, the CIA, MI6, and various other groups that profit big time from
US dispatches three more warships to Middle East
NATO recently literally shot itself in the foot, imperiling the resupply of International Assistance Forces in Afghanistan by shooting up two Pakistani border posts in a hot pursuit raid.
Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday "we're not claiming victory" in Iraq, but he believes the emerging government in Baghdad is capable of defending itself.
Satellite imagery seen by The Times confirmed that a blast that rocked the city of Isfahan on Monday struck the uranium enrichment facility there, despite denials by Tehran.
Continuing that angry tone, Major General Ishfaq Nadeem, director general of military operations, said NATO forces were alerted they were attacking Pakistani posts but helicopters kept firing. "Detailed information of the posts was already with ISAF
the Times on Wednesday alleged that the blast had not been a military accident, and that the city's nuclear facility was damaged. The report quotes Israeli intelligence officials who based their conclusion on updated satellite images showing smoke
Britain shut down the Iranian embassy in London and expelled all its staff as the storming of the British diplomatic mission in Tehran could not have taken place without consent from authorities. The British Embassy in Tehran is closed and all staff
Eurozone class war
Egypt's military rules unchallenged
The Chinese have called it their “Underground Great Wall” — a vast network of tunnels designed to hide their country’s increasingly sophisticated missile and nuclear arsenal. A small band of obsessively dedicated students at Georgetown University has
Last week, President Barack Obama was in Asia to declare a cold war with China. Hopefully the U.S.-China cold war won’t be like the one fought with the Soviet Union that brought the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation and cost trillions of do
Iranian protesters stormed two British diplomatic compounds in Tehran on Tuesday, smashing windows, torching a car and burning the British flag in protest against new sanctions imposed by London.
The US iwill spend more than $6 billion in Iraq in 2012 even though its forces are to withdraw from the country by the end of this year, US ambassador Jeffrey said. President Obama announced the last troops would leave by year’s end, but
Defense minister Vahidi tells army volunteers 'Israel has to be punished for what it has done to the Muslims in Palestine'
The International Monetary Fund is being lined up potentially to help Italy and Spain amid growing fears that a European rescue scheme will not be able to prop up the countries.
Kuwait's cabinet has resigned after protesters and opposition deputies demanded that the prime minister step down over allegations of corruption, state-run television has reported. "The prime minister [Sheikh Nasser Mohammad al-Ahmad Al-Sabah] has
Israeli state terror
In an open act of defiance, a gay couple kisses in front of an Al-Jazeera covering Spain's elections last week.
For observers who fear a breakup of the euro zone might be at hand, Chancellor Merkel has a pointed rebuke: It’s never going to happen. But some banks are no longer sure, especially as the debt crisis threatened to ensnare Germany itself
That a major US covert action team has been captured inside Iran in a possible act of sabotage against Iran's nuclear program (which the IAEA has never found to be in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty)? Is this not an act of war
Hundreds of thousands of youths demonstrated in cities across the country Saturday in opposition to an agreement last week that grants President Ali Abdullah Saleh immunity from prosecution in return for leaving office.
General Yadollah Javano of the Revolutionary Guards says that Iran could attack any part of Israel in response to an Israeli strike on Iran.
