Colombia's ex-president Alvaro Uribe called for a "rebellion" against the government of his successor Juan Manuel Santos over perceived capitulation to the FARC guerillas.
Lawmakers have slipped a provision into the new National Defense Authorization Act that would allow a massive copper mine on public lands that are sacred to the Apache.
The Russian policy establishment is hypothesizing an ISIS hand in the bloody attack by Chechen insurgents in Grozny—and implying that the West is in turn behind ISIS. (Map via La Croix International)
Gen. David Rodriguez, head of US Africa Command, said that ISIS has set up training camps in eastern Libya, and that the Pentagon is closely monitoring the situation.
Colombian Gen. Ruben Dario Alzate resigned one day after his release by FARC guerillas who had captured the top official unarmed in rebel-controlled territory.
In a bid to win popular support, the interim regime in Burkina Faso has pledged a new investigation to verify the burial place of slain revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara.
The pepper spray used by Hong Kong police is made by the Sabre company—its headquarters just oustide Ferguson, Mo., now exploding into protest over the Michael Brown case.
In Nigeria's northwest, traditional hunters in rural areas, armed only with bows and arrows, are organizing patrols to protect their villages against Boko Haram.
Media reports in Brazil suggest that the crackdown on favela gangs in the prelude to this year's contentious World Cup was actually a police extermination campaign of favela youth.
Spanish propaganda poster in support of Syria's Kurdish resistance reads: "Against fascism; They shall not pass!" The anarchist-oriented Rojava Kurds have over the past year built an autonomous zone in northern Syria, on principles of direct democracy, local assemblies, and political… Read moreKurdish revolution: what odds for survival?
Pari Ibrahim of the Free Yezidi Foundation spoke at New York's Institute for the Study of Human Rights on the ongoing genocide and sexual slavery of her people at the hands of ISIS.
Protesters in the Philippines marked five years since the country's worst political massacre, at Ampatuan—where paramilitary troops killed 58 opponents of a local boss.
