All Security Watch
South Korea calling, but North pretends that nobody is homeNorth Korea's refusal to take South Korea's phone calls has dashed hopes for proposed peace talks.
ACLU files suit over NSA surveillance, citing 'chilling effect'The American Civil Liberties Union charges that secret warrants allowing the National Security Agency to collect mass data on phone usage violates the First and Fourth Amendments of the Constitution.
Americans say they are pretty comfortable with expanded government surveillanceThe new polling from Pew suggests that the latest leaks aren't likely to change policy.
Double suicide bombings brings war back to Damascus streetsTwin suicide bombings that hit a downtown market square in Damascus were the first since Assad regime forces retook the city of Qusayr.
Booz Allen Hamilton, federal contractorHow do you keep secrets when Booz Allen, just one of many intelligence contractors, has more than 12,000 employees with top secret access?
Will NSA leaks wake us from our techno-utopian dream?A vast surveillance state is being made possible by the technologies that we were told would liberate us.
Taliban assault on Kabul airport ends with seven militants deadA small Taliban unit assaulted the Kabul airport just before dawn today. Afghan police and Army units handled the response.
Is the price of 'security' worth it?Or, how much terrorism is there, really?
NSA's data flood, through the PRISM of US interests and freedomDo revelations about the US government snooping on citizens' telephone and Internet records make it harder for the government to advocate for Internet freedom around the world?
France looking at ways to 'safely' arm Syria's rebelsThe French government is considering how it can provide advanced weaponry to Syria's rebels, but with safeguards that could limit the weapons from falling into the wrong hands.
IMF admits it got Greece wrong. What does it get right?Not much.
Report confirms high toll from Afghan insider attacks in 2012The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction points to the dangers posed to foreign troops from their Afghan counterparts.- Iraq risks 'return' to war? Maybe the wrong question.Iraq is less violent than it was and the press frequently wonders if the country could descend into war again. What if the war never ended?
Syrian fighting spills into Golan Heights – and Israel's doorstepThe Syrian Army and rebels battled for control of Syria's crossing into the Golan Heights. The fighting lasted for seven hours and sent UN peacekeepers scrambling.
North Korea will talk to South Korea in bid to ease tension on the peninsulaRelations between the North and the South have been more strained than usual lately, but an agreement to discuss reopening a joint factory venture could shift the mood in the region.
Britain joins France in saying nerve gas used in SyriaThe British Foreign Office found the presence of sarin gas in several samples from Syria a day after the French government said there was 'no doubt' the chemical weapon was used by Assad's forces.
Egypt to global democracy NGOs: Drop deadA group of democracy activists, 16 of them US citizens, were sentenced to jail for their activities by an Egyptian court today.
UN finds evidence of 'toxic chemicals' and a worsening war in SyriaA new UN report says some kind of chemical has probably been used on Syria's battlefield, but stopped short of saying what chemical or by whom.
An Egyptian preacher and a US senator compete over Syria's futureBoth Yusuf al-Qaradawi and John McCain want Bashar al-Assad to fall. But in their competing visions you'll find reasons for the White House's reticence over deeper military involvement.
'Occupy' is not a good model for change, in Turkey or anywhere elseAny protest movement that insists on a leaderless, non-ideological approach to political change is unlikely to accomplish much.
