The Washington Post reports that "NATO has resumed handing over Taliban detainees to the custody of Afghanistan’s government, following a break of nearly four months after the coalition halted the practice on the grounds that prisoners faced torture by Afghan...
After it became clear that a UN resolution on Syria was not in the cards due to vetoes from Russia and China, many pointed to the rising specter of Syria becoming a theater of proxy conflict between various powers. A Syrian in Damascus, who could not be named for...
When the Obama administration decided to militarily intervene in Libya, they did so without approval from Congress. A UN resolution authorized a mission to protect the civilian population from Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi's forces, but the mission quickly morphed...
Mere days after U.S. officials leaked intelligence that al-Qaeda's branch in Iraq has been infiltrating Syria to conduct terrorism, arm the opposition, and take advantage of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, al-Qaeda's #1 Ayman al-Zawahiri condemned the...
Over the weekend, Rolling Stone magazine published a full copy of the unclassified report that Lt. Col. Daniel Davis submitted to Congress. Davis is of course the army whistleblower who has written and spoken out against the “rosy official statements by U.S. military...
This New York Times article on the supposed reconsideration of the size of the U.S. Embassy in Iraq has some surprising bits of truth: “The main issue between Iraqis and the U.S. Embassy is that we have not seen, and do not know anything about, an agreement between...
Today it was revealed that Israel has been funding, arming, and training the Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK), designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department, to conduct terrorist attacks killing Iranian nuclear scientists. Anonymous U.S. officials confirmed...
According to journalist Michael Hastings (author of the brilliant book on the war in Afghanistan The Operators), there is a coordinated smear campaign by the Pentagon aimed at whistleblower Lieutenant Colonel Daniel L. Davis. Davis, who was deployed to Afghanistan...
New York Times: Mohammad Daim Kakar, the director general of Afghanistan’s disaster assistance agency, confirmed that camp officials, parents and religious leaders in two of the camps in Kabul had reported the deaths of 21 children from the cold, as well as two...
This UN report assessing the impact of "the Libyan crisis" is worth a note. Apparently, the U.S.-led intervention exacerbated various problems in the region. A summary: While the impact of the crisis reverberated across the world, such neighbouring countries as...
