A Turkish military incursion against Qaedist rebels in Syria comes amid claims that al-Qaeda affiliates have seized the country's oilfields and are planning attacks on the West.
World War 4 Report offers its annual annotated assessment of Obama's moves in dismantling, continuing or escalating the apparatus of the Global War on Terrorism.
Mayor de Blasio's closed-doors meeting with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) plays into the worst stereotypes about Jews. So no thanks, Bill.
Leftist Palestinian parties held demonstrations across the West Bank in opposition to negotiations with Israel and US Secretary of State John Kerry's "framework proposal."
Peru's Yanacocha mining company is implicated in another forced eviction of a campesino family from disputed lands in the northern Cajamarca region.
A state prosecutor cleared Peru's imprisoned ex-president Alberto Fujimori of charges that he was responsible for the forced sterilization of thousands of indigenous peasant women.
As Bogotá waits to see if Colombia's prosecutor general will honor a court order allowing Mayor Gustavo Petro to remain in office, threats are reported against his supporters.
Colombia's indigenous movement charges that the government is failing to act after a wave of deadly violence and threats against Embera leaders by paramilitaries.
A wildcat strike has shut down several Chilean ports for the past three weeks, with the fruit and mineral industries claiming $100 million in losses.
The prison crisis in Brazil made brief headlines after newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo released a gruesome video of gang warfare victims at the violence-plagued Pedrinhas facility.
Two were killed as South African police fired on protesters at the townships of Mothotlung and Damonsville, where residents are angry at having been without water for a week.
A "commando" of six gunmen gained access to a Mexican prison, killed four inmates in their sleep, and then tried to shoot their way out, sparking a bloody fire-fight.
