As  President Obama  weighs options for responding to a suspected chemical weapons attack in  Syria , his national security aides are studying the  NATO  air war in  Kosovo  as a possible blueprint for acting without a mandate from the...

  U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday he intends to conduct a "thorough, impartial and prompt investigation" into the latest alleged chemical weapons attack in  Syria , an issue his top disarmament official will raise in Damascus shortly. A United Nations statement...

Few hours before the chemical attack on eastern and western Ghouta towns, members of the National Council SNC were deliberating the Idea of withdrawal from the Opposition Coalition. Last Wednesday, Coalition top members announced freezing any participation in Geneva 2 because it's...

A Cairo criminal court ordered Egypt’s long-time dictator Hosni Mubarak freed from prison on bail yesterday, starkly illustrating the Egyptian military junta’s counterrevolutionary agenda. While the court said it would hold Mubarak for 48 hours to let the prosecution appeal the verdict,...