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The plight of civilians in western Aleppo, often targeted by rebels, is almost unknown to mainstream viewers. Five children were killed in the govt-controlled part of the city on Thursday, but the attack didn’t get much notice from rights groups or the US. WARNING: You […]

The UN’s newly-appointed secretary-general has urged reconciliation between the US and Russia, saying he will do “everything he can” to encourage trust between the two nations. Tensions have recently mounted over the Syrian crisis. Antonio Guterres said he will “be delighted to do everything I […]

A leading think tank founded by the godfather of neoconservatism Irving Kristol, father of Iraq War architect Bill Kristol, gets hot and heavy in a recent publication talking about the top ten “killer weapons” in the war hawks next project – war against Russia. In […]

Colonel John Dorrian, spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve, the US-led international coalition against Daesh, announced Thursday that the US Defense Department has given anti-aircraft systems to Iraqi soldiers in order to fend off drone attacks from jihadists. Iraqi News quoted a statement Dorrian released saying […]

The US Air Force deployed a fleet of aircraft to east Africa over the summer to respond to potential threats in South Sudan. A statement released by US Africa Command on October 13 indicates that the Pentagon has been prepared to engage in South Sudan […]

YORBA LINDA – A year in the making, the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum has been reborn. And so too, perhaps, has its legacy: from staid and stodgy to hip and incisive. The presidential library is, its patrons and officials hope, ready to engage […]

ATLANTA (AP) — A national police organization’s endorsement of Donald Trump has exposed a divide within the ranks of law enforcement: Can they support someone who calls himself the law-and-order candidate but was caught on tape bragging about sexually predatory behavior toward women? And what […]

Lebanese ministers met for an ordinary Cabinet session Thursday despite a continuing boycott by Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil

Lebanese security forces busted an alleged terror cell and confiscated a large cache of arms, General Security said in a statement Friday.