America First views, including Iran nuclear, Paris accord, and, most recently, United Nations Global Compact for Migration. ..…

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. ..…

Alienation from the political class Israel has never been greater and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his cronies hope that spreading fear of Iranian bomb will help them ride out political storm that has seen his poll rating plummet to low. ..…

The determination of whether material is or is not extremist is made by State Commission for Religious Affairs, government panel that human rights defenders have criticized for expertise and impartiality. ..…

In recent years, Assad, with Russian and Iranian support, has retaken large areas of the country, focusing on de-escalation zones in western Syria meant to freeze the fighting between the regime and the rebels. ..…

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... ..…

Four states, including Burma and Sri Lanka, Buddhism, while three nations, including Turkey and Syria, Islam. ..…

Three countries – Sudan, Syria and Turkey – favor Islam but do not declare it as the state religion. . ... Two others, Sudan and Syria, have a preferred or favored religion (in both cases, also Islam). ..…

Iran's power aims to eradicate terrorism, Zarif. ..…

organizations or social groups the new study finds that 40% of countries had high or very high levels of restrictions, up from 34% in 2014.. ..…

handout picture released by Syrian Arab News Agency on July 21, 2016 shows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad speaking during interview with Cuban Prensa Latina agency, in Damascus Embed.. ..…

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.. ..…

Knowing, as the senators did, that Iran's Supreme Leader and elite were already deeply skeptical of Washington's trustworthiness and of the ability to fulfill deal, the letter appeared designed to strengthen the deal's opponents Tehran.. ..…

Ali-Akbar Velayati, adviser to Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei Iran and Russia are coordinating their stance on fighting Daesh terrorist group Syria, Ali-Akbar Velayati, adviser to Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, says... ..…

The future of Iraq is in doubt after American investment of lives and money. ..…

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 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. ..…

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. ..…

August 28, 2014 Ashley Smith analyzes the complex conflicts driving the in Middle East--and fueling the drive for U.S Iraq, possibly Syria... ..…

It's one of several digs at Bush the elder, at whose side he had treaded the path of the ambition until, at August 1980, both men found themselves at Republican National Convention pacing nervously in their Detroit hotel rooms, awaiting call from Ronald Reagan about. ..…

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.. ..…

I was struck by how he wanted to use this audience and this opportunity to reject some of the key tenets of multilateralism, said Dafna Rand, State Department official. ..…

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

the policy debate at home surrounding the intervention is heating up. ..…