Hekmatyar: Afghanistan’s ultra-ironic peacemaker
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has gone from being a CIA-approved Mujahedeen commander to an officially designated "global terrorist" to a partner with the US-backed Kabul regime.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has gone from being a CIA-approved Mujahedeen commander to an officially designated "global terrorist" to a partner with the US-backed Kabul regime.
The 30,000 Muslims who marched against extremism in London were followers of the Ahmadiyya sect—a dissident current in Islam persecuted by the orthodox Sunni.
The suspect in the Chelsea bombings apparently expressed admiration for al-Qaeda and ISIS in his personal journal—which will be exploited by the media and ISIS alike.
The glee with which "anti-war" voices have greeted the British parliament's critical report on the Libya intervention betrays unseemly schadenfreude over the post-Qaddafi chaos.
A new report compiled by California State University finds a dramatic increase in hate crimes in 2015, particularly those targeting Muslims and Arab-Americans.
With over a quarter million dead in Syria, the UN Security Council finally called an emergency meeting after the US for the first time bombed Assad regime forces—by accident.
The US House of Representatives approved a bill that would temporarily block further transfer of detainees from the Guantánamo Bay prison camp.
International outrage over the mounting wave of executions in Iran reached another milestone when 12 drug convicts were hanged at Karaj Central Prison outside Tehran.
Business and transportation across much of Colombia's eastern plains and mountains were paralyzed this week in an "armed strike" called by the National Liberation Army guerillas.
In a public ceremony in Bogotá, Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos asked forgiveness for the state's role in the systematic killings of leftist activists in the 1980s.
A peasant community in Colombia's Cesar department has been threatened with legal action by oil giant ConocoPhillips for blocking roads to prevent development of a fracking site.
A hacienda owner in Colombia's Cauca region is demanding payment for damages to his property after indigenous protesters clashed there with security forces.