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(Photo: _Davo_) Henry Louis Gates Jr., the famed African-American literary scholar and director of the Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, recently reflected the following in an …

Iraqi border guards look out from Shulha al-Alghwat border fort on the Iraq-Iran border on April 1, 2010. Training Iraqis to guard their border is one of the last …

Washington - For President Obama, these are the days of never hearing an encouraging word. Not since his own supporters were losing faith in his presidential campaign in the …

American and Iraqi Special Operations commandoes on a joint operation mission in search of two suspected car bombers in western Baghdad, June 22, 2011. (Photo: Joseph Sywenkyj / The …

Protesters outside the University of Chiless main building, August 8. (Photo: Fernando Mandujano) Radio Toma, loosely translated as “Occupation Radio,” broadcasts non-stop information about the protests being …

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (twice voted America's Most Livable City) shifted their property tax off buildings and onto land. (Photo: dougtone) The obese American is not just a person; …

“We had to absolutely prepare for a catastrophic terrorism incident,” says an FBI Special Agent involved in planning security for the 2008 Republican Convention, “and the planning ideology that …

Peshawar - Mining gems and other valuable minerals may provide, the Pakistan government hopes, alternate careers to militancy in the restive Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), bordering Afghanistan. …

A summer evening. 1990. Perfect weather. My wife and I are with Hungarian friends, eating at a sidewalk café on a tree-lined street in Budapest. They’re troubled. …

Kabul, Afghanistan - Twenty people were killed in a suicide attack Sunday on the governor’s compound in Chaharikar in the central province of Parwan, Afghan officials said. …