The State Department said Tuesday that an American contractor had died in Yemen weeks after being detained in that war-torn…
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Amputation, blinding and lashes all part of Iran’s medieval system of justice, says report
Iran’s medieval barbarity is not limited to executions, it includes lashings, amputations and even the blinding of people convicted of…
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Families Maintain Hope Iran Will Release American Hikers
Tehran – Relatives of two American men arrested more than two years ago in Iran said Sunday that the news…
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Is a third Iraq war imminent?
The latest Iraq war is between Iraq’s pro-Iranian Shiite government and pro-Al Qaeda Sunni rebels. It boils down to Iran…
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Ukraine, Gaza, Iraq: Obama dithers, hesitates and then goes golfing
On a trip to Ireland during the 1990s, I was struck by how little public discussion there was about “The…
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