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The U.S. military has now officially backtracked from its earlier suggestion that it would seek the consent of local shuras, or consultative conferences with those elders, to carry out …

The Washington Post reports that a plume of volcanic ash from Iceland hovering over Northern Europe severely disrupted air travel for hundreds of thousands of airline passengers today as …

Since beginning the Feminist Peace Network in 2001, I have written and spoken about militarism and violence against women more times than I can count. In those years I …

I write a lot of stories, news mostly. They're carried by InterPress News Service. I've been doing this for a very long time, so I'm usually able to separate …

At the far edge of American power in Asia, things are going from bad to much worse than anyone could have imagined.

US officials are “probing a possible attempted coverup” in the deaths of five Afghan civilians in February in a raid carried out by US Special Forces accompanied by Afghan …

Washington - The public is zero for seven at the Supreme Court this term. That tally doesn't involve the justices' votes on cases. It's the number of times that …

Marianne2, with France Culture, has presented a series of interviews by Antoine Mercier with various intellectuals on the subject of the economic crisis. To close the series, economist and …

Whether a government or a private company gathers data, Europeans get nervous. Recent controversies over the volume of information about ordinary Europeans that U.S. agencies have demanded in the …

A recent Congressional Research Service analysis obtained by ProPublica looked at the number of civilian contractors killed in Afghanistan in recent months. It's not pretty.