'Nigeria's Taliban': How Big a Threat?

A police officer looks at the bodies of Islamic fundamentalists who were shot during cross fire outside police headquarters in Maiduguri, Ni...

Iran Security Forces Retreat As Huge Numbers Of Mourners Gather At Cemetery

The mother of Sohrab Arabi, shown in the poster at right, who was killed during Iran's post-election turmoil last month, speaks with pro...

U.S. Shifting Drones' Focus To Taliban

A Reaper drone, which comes equipped with Hellfire missiles and precision-guided bombs, takes off from Kandahar air base in southern Afghani...

Venezuela's Attorney General: 'Freedom Of Expression Must Be Limited'

From Yahoo News/AP: CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuela's top prosecutor insisted Thursday that freedom of expression in Venezuela "must...

Pyongyang Seizes Boat From South

South Korean activists demanded the North return a South Korean fishing boat. Associated Press/Lee Jin-man From The Wall Street Journal: SEO...

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- July 30, 2009

No Toppling Dominoes In South Asia, Thank You -- Globe And Mail In her brilliant book The Uses and Abuses of History, historian Margaret Mac...

World News Briefs -- July 30, 2009

A demonstrator in Italy holds up a picture of Neda Agha-Soltan, an Iranian woman who was killed during post-election unrest in Tehran in Jun...

How The U.S. Desire For Drugs Fuels Wars

Mexican drug traffickers are growing millions of marijuana plants in California's vast national parks Photo: AP California's Pot P...

Israeli Report Defends Actions During Gaza War

A Palestinian boy walks past as the rubble of al-Taqwa mosque is cleared in Gaza City July 26, 2009. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem From The AP: JERUS...

U.S. House Seems To Be Set on Pork-Padded Defense Bill

Gates and Gen. Cartwright announce the 2010 budget numbers/Pentagon From Washington Post: The Democratic-controlled House is poised to give ...