Turkey sees in the battle for Qusayr a strategy to create an Alawite mini-state within Syria, purged of Sunni Muslims, to which the ruling elite can withdraw for a last stand.
Reactions to the jihadist slaying of a British solider in London are polarized along predictable lines—emphasizing either the context of imperial wars or the threat of political Islam.
In Argentina residents protest Monsanto's plan for a giant facility in their town; Mexican campesinos worry about contaminated corn; Puerto Ricans want labels on GM food.
Protesters and legal experts raise questions about a court’s decision on the Ríos Montt conviction; meanwhile, Guatemala suddenly extradites another ex-president to the US.
Honduran police disperse a protest by indigenous Lenca communities; two days later, police claim to find a gun in a Lenca leader’s car.
Mexican and Central American activists tour the US to increase awareness about immigration and to build ties with US-based activists.
A protester for women’s equality in Tehran. As we approach the June 2013 Iranian presidential election, the real frontrunners of the 2009 election, as well as many young activists, remain in prison. But several defining issues continue to fuel the grassroots… Read moreWhither Iran’s democratic opposition?
Mali’s government and the MNLA, at odds over whether army troops will be allowed into the rebels’ northern stronghold for upcoming elections, will resume talks in Burkina Faso.
A group of Israeli settlers destroyed over 100 olive trees in a Nablus village after spraying them with toxic chemicals, a Palestinian Authority official said.
Col. Alberto Julio Candiotti, a former Argentinine military officer wanted for crimes committed during the country’s 1976-1983 “Dirty War,” was arrested in Montevideo.
Negotiators from Colombia's government and the FARC rebels signed an agreement on agrarian reform, calling for redistribution of illegally held or underused lands.
A controversial paramilitary leader was among 28 killed in a Naxalite ambush on a convoy accompanying politicians from a rally in India’s Chhattisgarh state.
