So lots of people are talking about the recent comments from Israeli's deputy speaker about killing all the adults in Gaza. Not enough people, to my mind, and since the State Department doesn't do daily press briefings where they could be asked about this anymore, I...

A new interview on DW Conflict Zone features Yemeni National Salvation Government (NSG) Foreign Minister Hisham Sharaf, focusing on war crimes in Yemen over the course of the six year war. The NSG is the Sanaa-based government involving the Houthis and other parties...

Turkey seeks to arrest star as 'terrorist' for Gulenist ties Boston Celtics Center Enes Kanter confirmed today that he will be in Toronto for the Christmas Day game, the result of assurances from Canadian officials that he would be safe to come to Canada and...

In a last minute move that threatens to severely handicap the Iranian team at the 2018 World Cup, Nike has announced that they are taking away their shoes, saying no Iranian players can be allowed to wear the shoes of a US company because of sanctions. Iran's coach is...

Better dead than red? According to Ukrainian officials, that's a choice that their fiercely loyal military dolphins faced in 2014, when Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula and took the dolphins into custody. The Ukrainian story would have you believe that even though...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 19, 2018           CONTACT: Sarah Peck, 202-228-1174; Miryam Lipper, 202-365-2176  Kaine Statement On U.S. Involvement In Conflict In Yemen & Sanders-Lee-Murphy Resolution WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the...

Attending a high-profile security conference in the Bavarian city of Munich forced Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif, and the German Defense Ministry, to take extreme measures to facilitate his arrival and departure. Zarif was warned by the private...

US Sanctions Likely Preclude Them Getting Uniforms When the US and UN try to impose new sanctions on North Korea, as they do every few weeks, the question that inevitably rises is: what's left to sanction. The Winter Olympics are underscoring just how far this has...

Officials "apologize" to Israel for "oversight." Signing up for an internationally accessible website almost always means including your country of origin. The same has been true of NBA.com, for years. Then today, Israel suddenly expressed outrage at that fact, with...

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D - NH) is pushing a bill that would seek a Justice Department investigation of whether television station RT America is "coordinating with the Russian government," saying there is reason to believe that there are financial ties between the...