No quiet on the eastern front: "Stalingrad"
Based loosely on Soviet author Vasily Grossman's novel, "Life and Fate," the film Stalingrad is a treatment of World War II's "bloodiest battle in human history."
Turkey's crisis: more than meets the eye
The current corruption crisis zeroing in on Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyio Erdogan has all the elements of one of his country's famous soap operas that tens of millions of people all over the Middle East tune in to each day: Bribes, shoe boxes filled with millions in cash, and dark whispers of foreign conspiracies.
Experts put Iraq death toll at nearly 500,000
The first major study into the human cost of the Iraq war in eight years has found that nearly half a million people died because of the U.S.-led invasion.
What does the UN Syria report really say?
UN weapons inspectors, in their long-awaited report on the alleged chemical weapons attacks in the Damascus area, did not determine who perpetrated the attacks.
Appeals to White House: Don't bomb Syria
In a letter dated Aug. 28, 18 human rights, peace and religious organizations appealed to President Obama to reject military intervention in Syria.
Berlin still hopes for an end to all war
The hot, seemingly untroubled vacation days in Germany have been disturbed by two abbreviations, NSU and NSA.
Afghanistan: Is it really the end game?
There is nothing that better sums up the utter failure of America's longest war than getting ambushed as you are trying to get the hell out of the county.
Battling crisis, Iraq’s communists remain optimistic
Ten years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, pretty much no one is optimistic about the prospects for democracy and a decent life for the people in that cradle of civilization.
Mali and chickens
The vision that Conrad's character Marlow describes is of a French frigate firing broadsides into a vast African jungle, in essence, bombarding a continent.
Debate heats up over U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan
Debate is intensifying about the numbers of U.S. troops to remain in Afghanistan after the projected withdrawal of most by the end of 2014.
