Special Forces Flown To Mount Sinjar To Assess Yazidi Rescue
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pentagon official says a team of U.S. Army Special Forces were flown atop Sinjar Mountain in northern Iraq to get a firsthand look at possible ways to rescue stranded Iraqi...
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Share This Video Of Syrian Kids' Gorgeous Color 'Bombs' And Help Them Get A...
According to Matthew Butler, Jenny Ljung and Joel Robbins, a splash of color can make all the difference to a child. And judging by the smiles on these kids' faces -- Butler, Ljung and Robbins seem to...
View ArticleStanford Professor 1st Woman To Win Top Math Prize
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An Iranian-born Stanford University professor is the first woman to win math's highest honor, the Fields Medal. The International Mathematics Union awarded the prize Wednesday to...
View ArticleHamas-Israel: An Interim Scoresheet
The current round of hostilities is clearly beyond the end of the beginning, but not yet at the beginning of the end, as there is no formal, binding ceasefire; but it is not too early to pinpoint at...
View ArticleChuck Hagel: Far Fewer Refugees Stranded, U.S. Less Likely To Undertake...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says far fewer refugees are stranded on Iraq's Sinjar Mountain and that it's far less likely that the U.S. will undertake a rescue mission there....
View ArticleYazidi Religious Beliefs: History, Facts, And Traditions Of Iraq's Persecuted...
Hunted by militants from the Islamic State, thousands of people from the Yazidi community have fled to the slopes of Iraq's Mount Sinjar, where they are caught between the prospect of death by...
View Article'I Will Keep Very Strong': An Ethiopian Girl Fights to Delay Marriage
AFAMBO, Ethiopia -- From birth, Kadiga Mohammed was set to marry her first and eldest cousin, a traditional practice known as 'absuma' in her community in the Afar Region of Ethiopia. When she turned...
View ArticleU.S., Kurds Free Thousands Of Trapped Yazidis
U.S. Defense officials announced Wednesday that U.S. and Kurdish operations in Iraq had "broken the siege on Mount Sinjar" in Iraq, making it possible for thousands of the Yazidi people trapped there...
View ArticleHuffington Post Reporter Arrested In Ferguson
The Huffington Post's Ryan J. Reilly and the Washington Post's Wesley Lowery were arrested Wednesday evening while covering the protests in Ferguson, Missouri after the death of unarmed black teenager...
View ArticleNorth Korea Fires Projectiles As Pope Makes Historic South Korean Visit
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired three short-range projectiles into the sea less than an hour before Pope Francis arrived Thursday for the first papal visit to South Korea in 25 years, South...
View ArticleAustin Hospital In Australia Mistakenly Declares 200 Patients Dead
SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian hospital apologized on Thursday after mistakenly sending out death notices for 200 of its - very much alive - patients. Austin Hospital, in Australia's second most...
View ArticleFBI Infiltration Of 9/11 Defense Continues To Delay Guantanamo Trial
Four months after defense lawyers first told a Guantanamo military commission that they'd learned the FBI was spying on their colleagues, it remains unclear who or what the FBI was investigating. What...
View ArticleGaza Crisis: Israel Outflanks The White House On Strategy - WSJ
JERUSALEM—White House and State Department officials who were leading U.S. efforts to rein in Israel's military campaign in the Gaza Strip were caught off guard last month when they learned that the...
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While Their Own Country Is Torn Apart By War, Syrians Are Giving Aid To Yazidis
Fleeing approaching Islamic State militants, tens of thousands of members of the Yazidi community in Iraq have found refuge in an unlikely place -- war-torn Syria. The United Nations refugee agency...
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Islands of Hope
How Israeli-Palestinian cooperation is spreading. Graphic by Kristine Ortega. As a non-Jewish East Indian woman, raised in an all-American Christian household, I feel compelled to counter the current...
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The Exceptional Egyptian Human Rights Defender Yara Sallam
Human rights defenders aren't always easy company. It's their job to be stubborn and sure of themselves, so they're often intense, sometimes abrasive. Yara Sallam is an exception. She's funny,...
View ArticlePhotos From Ferguson And 1960s Protests Side By Side Make It Clear How Little...
A young black man in sunglasses holds a sign with bold print in full view of the camera: "I AM A MAN." The word "am" is underlined. He's not just stressing the word, he's insisting on it. Around him,...
View ArticleOUCH! Here's Why Kobe Bryant, Kevin Durant Don't Want Women To Play World Cup...
In the fight to prevent the Women's World Cup from being played on artificial turf, the protests of a few high-profile hoopsters have bubbled to the surface. NBA stars Kobe Bryant and Kevin Durant took...
View ArticleProtesters Say Ferguson Feels Like Gaza, Palestinians Tweet Back Advice
Scenes of police crushing protests in Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri where an unarmed black teenager was shot on Saturday, have prompted outrage in the U.S. and shock around the world. As...
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Libya's Last Stand
By Ethan Chorin and Husni Bey If there was ever a J.R.R. Tolkien moment in the Libya conflict, it has arrived. The forces of good and evil, abstracted here to represent 'those who want progress', and...
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