American soldiers could be once again fighting on Iraqi soil as soon as April.
US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army General Martin E. Dempsey as he addresses questions from US military members during a town hall meeting in Baghdad, Iraq, November 15, 2014. Despite official denials, the US war on ISIS has been careening toward another ground war in both Iraq and Syria. The latest reports suggest the ground
The breach gave the NSA And Britain’s GCHQ the potential to secretly monitor a large portion of the world’s cellular communications, including both voice and data.
WASHINGTON — Britain's electronic spying agency, in cooperation with the U.S. National Security Agency, hacked into the networks of a Dutch company to steal codes that allow both governments to seamlessly eavesdrop on mobile phones worldwide, according to the documents given to journalists by Edward Snowden. A story about the documents posted
Analysis: Heard about income inequality lately? Here’s one way the rich keep getting richer.
Everybody knows what a “Swiss bank account” is. Hollywood tells us they’re top-secret safety deposit boxes for the world’s elite — places where drug kingpins and bankers and politicians and heirs hide their fortunes from government investigations and taxation. They’re how the super rich do banking. Now, thanks to one whistleblower and a team of
“These terrorists are desperate for legitimacy and all us have a responsibility to refute the notion that groups like ISIL somehow represent Islam, because that is a falsehood that embraces the terrorist narrative.”
WASHINGTON — In the fight against violent extremism, President Barack Obama argues the U.S. has one thing going for it that Europe doesn't: a long tradition of warmly embracing its immigrants, including Muslims. With the Islamic State group spreading and terrorists gaining strength in the Mideast and Africa, Obama has sought to use this week's
As Syria’s civil war spreads beyond its own borders and threatens to engulf the region, Marwa Osman tells MintPress about the human toll of this conflict in Yemen, a country where frail infrastructure is being further crippled by the threat of war and the influx of Syrian refugees.
LONDON --- Marwa Osma is a Beirut-based political analyst and lecturer at Lebanese International University (LIU). An expert on Islamic movements and the Levant region, Osman has been following developments in Syria and Lebanon closely, looking beyond the political smokescreen to understand the realities of a conflict which has devolved into a
Against the backdrop of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris last month, Mnar Muhawesh, founder and editor-in-chief of MintPress News, uses history as a lens to explore the power of the image.
Palestinian Greek Orthodox Archbishop Atallah Hanna, center left, walks beside Sheikh Hatem al-Bakri, center right, on a street to protest against a cartoon of Islam's Prophet Muhammad that was published by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo last week as protesters march in the West Bank city of Hebron, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015. Photo:
