Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were the first only American civilians to be executed for espionage, electrocuted at Sing Sing Prison Ossining, NY, 62 years ago, on June 19, 1953.  The couple was, stoic and tight-lipped to the end..   They went to their deaths with composure that astonished the witnesses... ..…

Today, it's not uncommon to hear about in Middle East, especially or when coverage includes North African or Asian nations. ..…

Cluster Munition Monitor 2018 is the ninth annual report of Cluster Munition Coalition, the coalition of nongovernmental organizations co-founded and chaired by Human Rights Watch. ..…

He shared with Human Rights Watch 32 incident reports by Ministry of Peshmerga on Iranian and Turkish military operations against PKK and other Kurdish armed groups Iraq between December 2016 and July 2018. Ismael Subhi, 20, the nephew of Sidqy Islam Hafzullah, 40, shopkeeper, said that..…

Iran, Hamas in Palestine, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and certain resistance movements in Iraq immediately come to mind. ... What I contend is that political Islam as a whole is quite simply not anti-imperialist but is altogether lined up behind the dominant powers on the world scale. . ..…

Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani shakes hands with secretary of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Kosrat Rasul Ali, Tehran on July 17, 2017 Iranian official has warned that plan by Iraq's Kurdistan region to hold referendum will weaken Arab country.. ..…

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and the head of Iraqi National Alliance, Ammar al- Hakim, meet Tehran on July 4, 2017 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has warned of divisive plots against Iraq, saying Tehran backs unity, stability and in its western neighbor... ..…

Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei receives Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al- Abadi Tehran on June 20, 2017 Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has warned against placing trust in the United States, saying Washington is against Iraq's independence and unity... ..…

The Iraqi parliament should set penalties for the crime of violence, remove provisions that prioritize reconciliation over justice, and improve victim protections in violence bill, in letter and memorandum to the speaker of parliament.. ..…

Most Republicans and Democrats also agree with their own party's policies on range of specific issues, including the economy, immigration, health care and policies to deal with Islamic militant group Iraq and Syria.. ..…

This shift underscores the partisan and ideological divisions in attitudes about U.S policy differences that extend to how to deal with terrorism, the nature of global threats, views of Israeli-Palestinian conflict and how involved United States should be in the world.. ..…

The political crisis that has been simmering Iraq, almost completely unnoticed by U.S media, boiled over last weekend when anti-government protesters mobilized by supporters of Shiite Moktada al-Sadr poured into the so-called. ..…

Rumsfeld played down yesterday that Shiite Muslims would rise while once again warning Iran not to in the creation of Baghdad.. ..…

WASHINGTON - Iranian-trained operatives have crossed into southern Iraq Karbala and Basra to promote Shiite clerics and advance Iranian interests, according to defense and other U.S government officials.. ..…

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The one man Iraq with the power to single-handedly scuttle U.S.-backed government gave it guarded and endorsement yesterday.. ..…

Small wonder that most Islamist political movements, from Muslim Brotherhood founded Egypt in 1928, to Lebanon's Shia militia-cum-party Hezbollah, to Salafi-jihadist State of Islamic Caliphate that is now beheading people Syria and Iraq, have portrayed themselves as resistance movements against..…

Heinrich Hoffmann Hoffmann Collection, Staatsbibliothek, Munich Adolf Hitler in the workshop of Josef Thorak, with Thorak's bust of Atatürk behind him, Munich, February 1937 In 1941, Harvard University professor named Carleton S. ..…

The in this new war is Islamic State Iraq and Syria, reactionary military force and would-be state that grew powerful as direct consequence of U.S and occupation of Iraq. ..…

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, --anointed by U.S and Iraq and other nearby countries--and the government of Iraq, led by its would-be strongman Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki and sometimes-orphaned client of U.S. ..…

Indeed, the survey finds that support for making sharia the law of the land is often higher in countries where the constitution or basic laws already favor Islam over other religions.2 Majorities in such countries say sharia should be enshrined as official law, including at least nine-in-ten Muslims in..…

Bush ordered U.S military to conduct devastating aerial assault on Baghdad, Iraq, known as At the urging of American neoconservatives in 2003, President George W. ..…

Tadamon is neighborhood of Sunnis, Druze, and Alawites on the southern outskirts of Damascus, bordering Palestinian refugee camp of Al-Yarmouk and perched astride the road to Jordan. ..…

Exclusive Neocons and U.S media place all the blame for Syrian on President Bashar al- Assad and Iran, and there is another side of which  Syria's olive branches to U.S and Israel were spurned and reckless for regime change followed, writes Jonathan Marshall.. ..…

In the Middle East and North Africa, majorities or substantial minorities in most countries – including Tunisia, Morocco, the Palestinian territories, Lebanon and Iraq – believe that it is possible to interpret Islam’s teachings in multiple ways. ... For example, while most Sunnis in..…

This year the office designated Uzbekistan, Burma, China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Eritrea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Uzbekistan as countries of particular concern for their systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious liberty.. ..…

aviation bill Congress is rushing to approve contains little-noticed section that would give authorities the power to track, intercept and destroy drones they consider security threat, without needing judge's approval.. ..…

In July 2016, his unwillingness to repeat USSR's mistake over Egypt by trusting Syrian government that could switch allies overnight.. ..…

Caliph Ibrahim may have declared the reestablishment of June 2014, and the group has hinted since its 2006 founding of Islamic State Iraq that the caliphate was already established. The term dawla, translated as state today, is also the name of Islam's greatest caliphate, the Dawla..…