Last month the US issued an ultimatum to Iran, demanding it fully cooperate with the IAEA by March or else face further action and possible measures at the UN Security Council. Micah Zenko, fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, speculates that this "could...

In October, the US launched an airstrike in Afghanistan that killed three children - ages 8, 10, and 12 -while they were gathering firewood (or by some accounts, dung to burn as fuel). NATO issued its usual dismissive statement, admitting it may have “accidentally...

A new report from Amnesty International investigates human rights abuses by the militant group Ansar al-Sharia and by the Yemeni government during the 2011-2012 conflict in the country. The report provides further documentation of US drone strikes that hit civilians...

Here's a twisted-like-a-pretzel kind of sentiment: [British] Home Secretary Theresa May has warned that those opposing plans to let police monitor all internet use are "putting politics before people's lives." Ah yes, those unwilling to have government thugs snoop on...

The Syrian rebellion has never been a popular revolution, but now even some who advocated the demise of the Assad regime have begun to doubt the value of the brutal civil war and what it has done for Syria. McClatchy has a brilliant report on "Ebrahem," a Syrian...

There was some bluster on Monday in response to reports that the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad made the first step in weaponizing chemical stockpiles and also has moved them around to different locations in the country. In terms of US action, the conflict in Syria...

So late last week when John Glaser took apart the latest scare piece from the Associated Press' George Jahn, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists was mocking it as "amateurish and technically incorrect." I didn't personally notice that the graph was flawed on first...