The Assad regime dubiously claims to be aiding the Kurdish defenders of ISIS-besieged Kobani—a transparent attempt at an Arab-versus-Kurdish divide-and-rule stratagem.
The US has started to air-drop weapons to Kurdish forces defending Kobani against ISIS—opening a new set of contradictions for the Rojava autonomous zone.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein urged Venezuela to release opposition leader Leopoldo López, held in connection with this year's protests.
The presidents of Colombia and Peru pledged to launch a joint operation to "cleanse" the Putumayo river valley of criminal gangs that control the remote jungle border zone.
The UN has extended its military operation another year, but it still has to deal with the lawsuits and costs brought on by the cholera epidemic it introduced to Haiti.
As the state experiences a social eruption over the killing and disappearance of student activists, a commission reports on the "dirty war" of an earlier era.
A US general recommended that the military create "blacklists with photos of all known insurgents and their aliases." Did the Salvadorans follow his advice?
Border Patrol agents rush through interviews with Central Americans seeking to flee gangs and then send them home to the "threat of murder, rape and other violence."
Colombia's Prosecutor General Alejandro Ordoñez slammed President Juan Manuel Santos for "protecting a terrorist" by failing to arrest FARC leader "Timochenko."
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro charged that a Colombian paramilitary network was behind the assassination of legislator Robert Serra, a rising star in the ruling party.
More than 100 Colombian farmers filed suit with the UK high court against a BP subsidiary over damage to their lands from the company's Ocensa oil pipeline.
As paralyzing protests enter their third week in Hong Kong, a split emerges in the movement between a conservative current seeking to keep the goal restricted to narrowly defined "democracy," and a more working-class element also concerned with economic grievances. In… Read moreBlack versus Yellow in Hong Kong protests
