Middle East
Iran hangs rebels in border attack reprisal
TEHRAN, Oct 26 — Iran has executed 16 rebels following overnight clashes in which 14 border guards were killed close to the border with...
Saudi Arabia warns women against driving
RIYADH, Oct 24, The Saudi interior ministry Wednesday warned women against driving in response to a campaign against the driving ban on females, Saudi...
End of the Promised Land?
A small country with limited resources cannot sustain a huge army, as well as an occupation regime and hundreds of settlements, without depriving everything else
By Uri Avnery
THOSE...
Middle East Wars Drive Refugee Flows, Mediterranean Migrant Deaths


15 October  2013
By Robert Stevens
Rescuers have ended their search for the bodies of the migrants who died in the October 3 Lampedusa boat sinking....
Post-Intervention Libya–A Militia State
By Richard Falk
Two apparently related and revealing incidents have turned public attention briefly back to Libya just after the second anniversary of the NATO...