What was the Haditha Massacre? On 11/19/2005, U.S. Marines from Kilo Company, Third Battalion, First Marine Division killed 24 unarmed civilians in Haditha, Iraq, execution-style, in a three to five hour rampage. Read more: War Crimes, Civilian Casualties, Iraq, Marine Haditha Case, Frank Wuterich, Haditha Massacre, World News Iraq news Military News Military Breaking News [...]

NATO acknowledged late Sunday that one of its airstrikes “may have caused a number of civilian casualties” during a bombing raid on the Libyan capital Tripoli, due to what it said appeared to be a technical malfunction.

Crossposted with TomDispatch.com One day in October 2001, a pilot for Northwest Airlines refused to let Arshad Chowdhury, a 25-year-old American Muslim (“with a dark complexion”) who had once worked as an investment banker in the World Trade Center, board his plane at San Francisco National Airport.  According to Northwest’s gate agents, Chowdhury writes in the [...]

Twelve days ago, the UN Commissioner for Human Rights condemned the Libyan government’s repeated attacks on civilians and civilian facilities in Misrata and warned that these attacks could be treated as criminal. “Under international law,” said Commissioner Navi Pillay, “the deliberate targeting of medical facilities is a war crime, and the deliberate targeting or reckless [...]

Newscaster: The failure of today’s pre-dawn Special Forces raid in Tripoli to catch or dispatch Moammar Gaddafi leaves the Obama Administration with a dwindling set of options on Day 32 of the Libyan War. The wily colonel had already moved from his Bab al-Azizia compound to an alternate headquarters, leaving the assault force of Navy [...]

Last night, one of the major television networks led its news broadcast with the “news” of Donald Trump’s pseudo-candidacy for president. It should come as no surprise that this was the same network (NBC) which also broadcasts Trump’s reality show. Since the mainstream media has, quite obviously, abdicated all responsibility for reporting the news in [...]

As NATO begins to focus on its new mission in Libya, its main mission in Afghanistan remains an unresolved debacle. Afghan President Hamid Karzai recently announced that his central government will be taking over seven areas of the country from the international coalition. But the Afghan government remains incredibly weak, widely distrusted, and underrepresented in [...]

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration issued its third progress report on Afghanistan and Pakistan on Tuesday, concluding that the U.S. strategy is showing progress and forces are on schedule to begin withdrawing from Afghanistan in July. The challenge, according to the administration, is to make these gains last over the long term. “Specific components of [...]

Is the Arab Spring already coming to an end? The foreign intervention in the rebellion in Libya has clouded the rosy vision of nonviolent, youth-led uprisings that had enchanted activists around the world. Will the surge of grassroots pro-democracy solidarity hit a dead end in the streets of Tripoli, as a nebulous armed insurrection aligns [...]

[Note: Last Monday, I wrote an article titled "Obama's Libyan Gamble." This should be read as "Part Two" of that article.] Events on the ground in Libya, roughly one week after coalition warplanes and cruise missiles began flying, seem to have taken a turn for the better for the rebel forces. Surprisingly, though, the American [...]