Military action

Sometimes you just report what's happening and it's so insane it makes for a decent cartoon.

Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan said twice this week that he waged the 2009 Fort Hood shooting massacre to defend "others" from his fellow soldiers. Those others, he said

They made false threats. Maybe they were just trying to "strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah" (Qur'an 8:60). "Two held over aeroplane threat," from the

In a strategy fraught with risk, Russian President Vladimir Putin is exploiting deep-seated domestic anger at the United States and fundamentalist Russian Orthodoxy to justify

This is the real Syrian rebel army. So you tell me, though it’s a nightmare there, just who exactly are we to help out a bunch of Islamic fundamentalists intent on

TEL AVIV, Israel – Syrian rebels have cheered Israel’s strikes against Syrian government facilities, while the Syrian government has said the attacks prove Israel is backing

France is "playing with fire” in Mali, the brother of Al-Qaeda’s chief said in an interview published Monday, warning that Islamic fighters would retaliate in the African

"I know what the world thinks of us, we are Communists, and of course I have said very clearly that we are not Communists; very clearly.” –Fidel Castro, 1959

U.S. policy toward Syria has changed but it is too late. A senior State Department official said at the meeting just concluded of opposition groups: "We have to help the moderates, people like [Chief of Staff of the Free Syrian Army] Salim Idris….”