In a discussion on NPR's Morning Edition yesterday, host Steve Inskeep asked Bronwyn Bruton, deputy director of the Atlantic Council's Africa Center, an important question regarding the massacre in Kenya by the Somali terrorist group al-Shabab: INSKEEP: Is there a...

The U.S. and Iranian presidents are probably going to meet face to face at the U.N. today. "They may even shake hands, " CNN reports. This would be pretty significant given the history of enmity between these two nations and it would follow several weeks of what cable...

The crux of why the Obama administration's Asia-Pivot strategy is reckless and stupid is contained in the first question and answer of Foreign Policy's interview with Japan's Defense Minister, Itsunori Onodera. Foreign Policy: What kind of commitment has the United...

Back in May, former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Ríos Montt was convicted on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity in an historic case, the first time a former head of state had been prosecuted for genocide by his own country. Ten days after his...

On August 31, Antiwar.com reprinted an article from Mint Press News: "Syrians In Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack." We originally linked to it, but then reprinted on our site at the request of Mint Press because traffic on their site was...

There was a time when activist groups that focused on helping the Palestinians in Gaza reserved their harshest language and protests for Israel, which long has prohibited both air and sea traffic in and out of Gaza; tightly limited exchanges through its Erez terminal;...

Historian Thaddeus Russell talks to John Stossel on why progressives are some of the biggest warhawks: Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com

One of the most frequently uttered fictions coming from Syria hawks is the claim that the Assad regime has slaughtered 100,000 Syrians. As Sen. John McCain has repeatedly yelped, "The fact is Bashar Assad has massacred 100,000 people." But as Micah Zenko of the...