In response to a question about the hunger strike currently sweeping the prison, President Obama today once again promised to close the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Obama spoke eloquently about the issue, saying "It is inefficient, it hurts us in...

When the news about chemical weapons use in Syria hit the headlines again last week, I wrote that the whole debate on the issue was bogus. I argued that the alleged use of chemical weapons didn't change the fact that the administration sees war in Syria as too costly...

I am pleased to introduce the latest addition to the Antiwar.com staff, our new Contributing Editor, Lucy Steigerwald. Lucy was previously an Associate Editor at Reason magazine, where she wrote on issues ranging from drones, the drug war, the US justice system,...

As we noted in the news section yesterday, The New York Times reported this week on "bags of cash" that have been continually sent to Afghan President Hamid Karzai "courtesy of the CIA." Despite its unsurprising "revelations," the story has received a lot of attention...

Drones are the weapon of choice for fighting undeclared wars all over the Middle East. Surveillance drones are on the cusp of becoming that for U.S. government and law enforcement officials as they continue their efforts to observe everyone as much as and as often as...

From the beginning, Antiwar.com warned of the inevitable blowback that would result from the US-NATO war in Libya. Eager to prove itself on the side of Arab Spring protests, America chose sides in a civil war on trumped up pretenses of humanitarian intervention....

After months of being reluctant to address it, the White House today announced it now believes the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons in its bloody, two-year civil war. "Our intelligence community does asses with varying degrees of confidence...

The path from Monday to today, which has brought the US to believe Syria's chemical weapons use is unusual. This timeline may help us better get a grip on how (though not why) officials got from A to B. Monday: Chuck Hagel is in Israel speaking with Israeli Defense...