Foreign policy impotence gripping U.S.

In an article published May 15, 2013, American historical social scientist Immanuel Wallerstein wrote, "Nothing illustrates more the limitations of Western power than the internal controversy its elites are having in public about what the United States in particular and western European states should be doing about the civil war in Syria." Those limitations are palpable in both language and ...

UN agency calls on Syrias neighbours to keep borders open for refugees

24 May 2013 150 The United Nations refugee agency today called on countries around Syria to keep their borders open for refugees, while also stressing the need for "urgent and robust" international support for host countries and aid agencies. There are already over 1.5 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). ...

Syria regime unleashes artillery barrage on Qusair

BEIRUT -; Activists say forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad have unleashed their heaviest artillery barrage in a week to dislodge rebels from a strategic western ...

Computer Attacks On U.S. Energy Companies Traced To Iran Officials Say

SAN FRANCISCO -- American officials and corporate security experts examining a new wave of potentially destructive computer attacks striking American corporations, especially energy firms, say they have tracked the attacks back to Iran. The targets have included several American oil, gas and electricity companies, which government officials have refused to identify. The goal is not espionage, ...

Iran and Egypt Old Foes New Competitors

Demonstrators storm the offices of the Muslim Brotherhood's political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party, in protest of President Morsi's expansion of powers in Alexandria, Egypt, on Nov. 23. (Photo: Mohamed Hanno, ...