The Taliban committed a Bush-style wedding massacre, and the villagers took revenge on a suspected Taliban sympathiser.

If enough Afgans feel this way, the Taliban will lose; but there's a long way to go before that happens.

Obama seems to want planned Syrian peace negotiations to start an Oslo-style process of endless negotiations that arrive nowhere.

This reflects the fundamental problem of the Syrian rebels: they are divided, and the strongest factions are as vicious as Assad's regime.

With JPMorgan Under Spotlight, Growing Calls to Jail the Banksters.

A citizen planted flowers in unused flower boxes in the DC Metro. Someone tore them out. Perhaps the Metro tore out the flowers because they were unauthorized and unapproved.

Honduran dissident photographer Manuel de Jesús Murillo Varela was murdered, having been threatened for years and not given the protection that he needed.