President Obama will host a black-tie, state-dinner-style event at the White House to honor Iraq War veterans, administration officials announced today. “It’s really focused on the men and women who served in Iraq, in all stations within the armed services,” said White House press secretary...
Syria is no longer sliding into war or staring at the abyss of warfare. Syria is at war. Although peaceful protesters still take to the streets in their thousands, the phenomenon that is the Free Syrian Army (FSA) is, short of a palace coup, becoming the main actor in a revolution that is growing nastier by the day. ...
The war is over, but the scars remain both upstairs and down in this Downton Abbey recap.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's victory in dodging a U.N. resolution it deemed a license for regime change may only escalate its internal conflict into a full-fledged civil war that many analysts believe President Bashar al-Assad cannot ultimately win. With the collapse of the sole diplomatic effort recognized by Assad's foes - both armed and in a split civilian opposition, the stage is set for ...
From one end of the muslim world to the other, Christians are being murdered for their faith.
There are plenty of arguments against an Israeli attack on Iran. And all of them are bad.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's victory in dodging a U.N. resolution it deemed a license for regime change may only escalate its internal conflict into a full-fledged civil war that many analysts believe President Bashar al-Assad cannot ultimately win. With the collapse of the sole diplomatic effort recognized by Assad's foes - both armed and in a split civilian opposition, the stage is set for ...
Hundreds of protesters demonstrated Saturday in New York and pacifist groups took to the streets in dozens of other US and Canadian cities in a "Day of Mass Action" against a possible war with Iran.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Friday tensions with South Sudan over oil transit payments could lead to war, stepping up the rhetoric in a row over crude reserves between the two countries. Asked in an interview with state television whether war could break out with South Sudan, Bashir said: "There is a possibility." He said Sudan wanted peace but added: "We ...
Sudan is closer to war than peace with the breakaway state of South Sudan, President Omar al-Bashir said on national television on Friday, with a dispute over oil and other issues stoking tensions.