INTERNATIONAL

  The former head of the CIA's Clandestine Service, Jose Rodriguez, recently stated that President Obama's war against Islam is far more brutal than that of his predecessor, with the administration opting for deadly drone attacks over arrests.   The indiscriminate US drone attacks and the senseless killing of innocent people   have reached scandalous proportions, prompting even the pliant Pakistani …

  The past several months have witnessed a heated debate over the best way for the United States and Israel to respond to Iran's nuclear activities. As the argument has raged, the United States has tightened its already robust sanctions regime against the Islamic Republic, and the European Union announced in January that it will begin an embargo on Iranian …

  BEIRUT (AP) — When the gunmen began to slaughter his family, 11-year-old Ali el-Sayed says he fell to the floor of his home, soaking his clothes with his brother's blood to fool the killers into thinking he was already dead. The Syrian boy tried to stop himself from trembling, even as the gunmen, with long beards and shaved heads, …

  The others unanimously found guilty of war crimes such as torture, inhumane and degrading treatment were former US Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Counsel to President Bush, Alberto Gonzales, General Counsel to Vice-President, David Addington, General Counsel to Secretary of Defence, William Haynes II, Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee and former Deputy Assistant Attorney-General, John …

  More than 60 people died in a series of bomb blasts across Iraq on Wednesday. The endless violence indicates that Iraq’s problems are far from over though the United States withdrew its troops – at least on paper – six months ago.   That the victims of Wednesday’s bomb attacks were largely Shiite pilgrims indicates that the sectarianism created …

In its more than 5,000-year history, Egypt last month had what the Western media called its first free-and fair election to pick a head of state. The election ended inconclusively requiring a run-off which will be held on June 16 and 17. In the run-up to the run-off, a sham trial ended with former tyrant Hosni Mubarak and his interior …