Armenians, Circassians, Mandaeans and other small ethnicities in Syria are being uprooted by jihadist terror, and increasingly see the Assad regime as the lesser evil.
Unarmed protesters in Damascus, November 2012. Syrian-American writer and activist Mohja Kahf appeals to anti-war forces in the US to acknowledge that there is a legitimate grassroots pro-democracy revolution in Syria, and not to loan comfort to the dictatorship of Bashar… Read moreSyria: It’s Still a Revolution
Jihadist forces of the Nusra Front launched an assault on the ancient Christian village of Maaloula, which is on the UNESCO tentative list of world heritage sites.
The Justice Project Pakistan released a report charging that prisoners of the US conitnue to be detained without charge at Bagram base despite the facility’s transfer to Afghan control.
If anti-war forces in the West do not oppose Assad's war crimes and offer solidarity to the struggle against his rule, we forfeit all legitimacy to oppose Obama's intervention.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon questioned the legality of the US plan to strike Syria under the standards defined by Article 51 of the United Nations charter.
The Syrian government is currently using cluster munitions in its ongoing conflict, according to a report by the Landmine and Cluster Munition Moniter.
Swedish police have repeatedly broken up a protest occupation by Sámi indigenous people against iron mining in a crucial reindeer herding area above the Arctic Circle.
Anti-fascist militant Savvas Michael-Matsas went on trial in Greece, charged with "libellous defamation" in a case brought by members of the far-right Golden Dawn party.
President Nicolás Maduro charged that "the extreme right has implemented its plan to carry out an Electrical Coup" after a massive blackout hit Venezuela.
A vigilante calling herself Diana the Hunter claimed credit for the slaying of two bus drivers in Ciudad Juárez, calling it revenge for sexual abuse of women by night-shift drivers.
Witnesses say two mine employees rode up to an anti-mining blockade, shot two protesters and then shot the owner of the house where the protesters had sought shelter.
