The US and its European allies have agreed to hold talks with Iran. This step is a major change, since although the UK, France and […]

Pakistan has announced the arrest of a major leader of the Swat Taliban, Muslim Khan, and four other local leaders. The arrest is important for […]

This is the story of two Joe Wilsons, and two Americas. Both challenged a president, the most powerful man in the free world. One is […]

A suicide truck bomber detonated his payload in a Kurdish village near Mosul early Thursday morning, killing 19 and wounding 25. The attack followed a […]

Here is the ranking by health researchers of 19 industrialized nations by how well their health systems intervene to stop preventable deaths. The US is […]

Jonathan Landay of McClatchy reports as an eye-witness on the guerrilla attack in Kunar Province on an Afghan Army expedition to Ganjgal village that killed […]

Jim Krane writes in a guest op-ed for IC The contrast is startling. Dubai is Iran’s window through the US embargo, one of its largest […]

Al-Zaman reports in Arabic that the Islamic Mission Party [Da’wa] headed by Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki is holding public demonstrations against Syria over its […]

The unemployment rate as I write is inching toward 10 percent nationally, and that is only counting people who were still looking for a job […]