Last week, Turkey asked the US for assistance (read: weapons) in fighting separatist Kurds in southeast Turkey. As I mentioned in the piece, it wouldn't be the first time and back when the Clinton administration "donated" arms to Turkey for this same reason, it...
Libya's interim rulers say they have found a mass grave believed to hold the remains of 1,270 inmates killed by Moammar Gadhafi's security forces in a notorious 1996 massacre. Yes, this is a horrible crime. No, it does not retroactively bolster the case for US...
Reuters: Pakistan's military will not take action against the Haqqani militant group that Washington blames for an attack against its embassy in Kabul, despite mounting American pressure to do so, a Pakistani newspaper reported on Monday. ...The Pakistani commanders...
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has returned to Yemen from Saudi Arabia where he had spent month recovering from injuries from a bombing of his residence in June. Despite the lack of media attention, Yemen has been increasingly violent with clashes between...
Bahrainis continue to rise up against their dictatorship, as they have been doing virtually on a daily basis. This week Bahrainis orchestrated a massive demonstration, blocking traffic "in an attempt to step up pressure on the government ahead of by-elections this...
Somewhat old news by now, the two American hikers jailed in Iran on suspicion of being spies, Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer, were bailed out by the US-allied Omani government for $1 million. They were detained for two years and are now free. In brief statements at the...
Yesterday's Washington Post: The Obama administration is assembling a constellation of secret drone bases for counterterrorism operations in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as part of a newly aggressive campaign to attack al-Qaeda affiliates in Somalia...
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is still in Saudi Arabia, although doesn't seem to be hindered from repressing Yemenis, through his vice president, to secure his rule. Just this week, Yemeni troops killed more than 50 unarmed protesters in the capital Sanaa as...
Politico: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said the Obama administration is doing everything it can to shut down the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, before the 2012 presidential elections. Speaking Tuesday at the European Parliament, Holder said the...
