Libyans speaking to GlobalPost said they are angry about the US breach of their sovereignty
TRIPOLI, Libya — Public feeling in Libya toward Americans seems to have darkened since US commandoes seized an alleged senior Al Qaeda operative over the weekend in the capital, Tripoli. The Libyan government has called on the United States to explain itself following what they said was a surprise “kidnapping” by US forces on Saturday.
By the year 2050, for the first time in history, seniors older than 60 will outnumber children younger than 15.
The world is aging so fast that most countries are not prepared to support their swelling numbers of elderly people, according to a global study being issued Tuesday by the United Nations and an elder rights group. The report ranks the social and economic well-being of elders in 91 countries, with Sweden coming out on top and Afghanistan at the
America’s crisis over Syria has its roots in the deceptions and missteps stemming from the World Trade Center attacks.
BUZZARDS BAY, Mass. — On yet another dark anniversary of the day that changed the world, the United States finds itself once again in crisis. The events in Syria have shocked and sickened all who have seen the horrific videos of children gasping for life, of men and women foaming at the mouth, of stacks of white-shrouded bodies awaiting
War drums grow louder as familiar tactics used to garner support for military action that only 9 percent of Americans support.
As a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll shows, support for further U.S. military involvement in Syria—whether called by its real name, "war," or the government's preferred euphemism, "intervention"—stands at a mere 9 percent. Well aware of its own citizens' reluctance to embark on yet another military misadventure in the Middle East region after more
Obama has also emphasized in the past that quick intervention in the years-old Syrian civil war was problematic because of the international considerations that should precede a military strike.
WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence officials sought Saturday to determine whether Syria's government unleashed a deadly chemical weapons attack on its people. At the same time, the Obama administration prepared for a possible military response by moving naval forces closer to Syria. Meeting on the issue Saturday with his national security team,
Many inside and outside of Iran now see a possible end to the nation’s diplomatic and economic isolation.
In Iran, the announcement of the election of Hassan Rowhani, a cleric and former nuclear negotiator, as president on Saturday had the nation’s reformists and moderates hopeful that the country’s conservative agenda may finally swing back toward the center. In light of a split conservative field in which no one candidate had the endorsement of
