Oceania
Fiji: not a ‘natural’ disaster
There are few climate-change skeptics in Fiji, which has been left devastated by Cyclone Winston, the strongest tropical cyclone ever measured in the Southern Hemisphere.
North America
Ex-Panther released after 43 years in solitary
Albert Woodfox, a former member of the Black Panthers, was released from Louisiana's Angola state prison after having spent a record 43 years in solitary confinement.
North Africa
US warplanes strike ISIS targets in Libya
US warplanes hit an ISIS camp at Sabratha, about 70 kilometers west of Tripoli, killing at least 49—said to be mostly foreign fighters who were preparing an attack in Europe.
The Andes
Drought brings hunger to Colombia’s Guajira
Struck hard by a drought related to this year's severe El Niño phenomenon, Colombia's northern region of La Guajira is suffering from a crisis of malnutrition.
The Andes
Plan Colombia to become ‘Peace Colombia’?
At their White House meeting, Obama and Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos proposed a "Marshall Plan" for the post-conflict era, to be dubbed "Peace Colombia."
Africa
Renewed war displaces thousands in Mozambique
At least 6,000 villagers have fled their homes in Mozambique across the border to Malawi amid renewed fighting between the government and RENAMO guerillas.
Greater Middle East
Syria: whose side is Israel on?
The Israeli security establishment and its neocon allies are divided between those who would destabilize Assad and those who would prop him with up as the Devil they know.
Elusive justice for Assam victims
Separatist guerillas in Assam, India, pose with their weapons. As India's government attempts to negotiate peace with multiple ethnic insurgencies in the country's remote northeast, survivors of those killed in generations of political violence fear that justice for their lost loved… Read moreElusive justice for Assam victims
Iraq
Iraq: Yazidi women take up arms against ISIS
Hundreds of Yazidi women who escaped from ISIS sex slavery have formed an all-female battalion to join an assault against their former abusers in northern Iraq.
Greater Middle East
Are Rojava Kurds taking the Russian bait?
Syria's Rojava Kurds are accused of coordinating with Russian air-strikes to take territory held by Islamist factions—while Turkey warns them against any further advance.
Greater Middle East
Syria: ‘ceasefire’ signals escalation (of course)
The Syrian ceasefire announced in Munich does not apply to US or Russian air-strikes on "terrorists," and comes as Turkey and Saudi Arabia are preparing military intervention.
Greater Middle East
Pseudo-left ‘monsterphilia’ hits bottom
Actively embracing monstrous regimes such as that of Bashar Assad, the contemporary "left" has thrown in its lot with fascism rather than revolution—and is in fact no longer a "left."