January 12, 2017 Message to Iran? 3 years after ‘red line,’ Syria chem weapons charges unresolved Three years after President Obama’s infamous “red line” threat to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, charges of chemical weapons use inside the war-torn country persist -- in turn fueling concerns about whether Iran can be held to the newly struck nuclear deal.
January 12, 2017 Americans stuck in Yemen file suit demanding State Department, military rescue them Claiming the Obama administration turned its back on them, 41 Americans stranded in war-torn Yemen filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the State Department and Defense Department for not evacuating them -- as fighting intensifies and U.S. allies launch airstrikes.
January 12, 2017 India's rape epidemic: Will the US apply pressure for change to its Asian ally? As grisly cases of rape in India start to emerge again, many are hoping the United States and others will apply pressure to their Asian ally to renew the fight against this epidemic.
January 12, 2017 Lawmakers urge new US strategy as Boko Haram rampages through Africa One of the most brutal and murderous Islamist militant groups has been steadily gaining ground, inflicting a streak of atrocities shocking by even their standards -- and it's not Al Qaeda or the Islamic State.
January 12, 2017 Family, friends of US contractor held in Cuba plead for US to do more to secure release For Alan Gross, the American contractor locked up in a Cuban prison on spying charges, the road to freedom seems increasingly out of reach.
January 12, 2017 15-year-old victim of Boko Haram takes her story to Capitol Hill A little girl forced to watch as members of Boko Haram butchered her father and shot her brother showed true grit Wednesday when she recounted the details of her nightmare on Capitol Hill.
December 31, 2016 Obama levies sanctions on 7 Venezuelan officials President Barack Obama slapped sanctions on seven Venezuelan officials Monday, accusing them of perpetrating human rights violations and public corruption in the socialist-governed South American nation.
December 30, 2016 Congressional critics ready to block Obama push to normalize Cuban relations The historic plan announced by President Obama on Wednesday to normalize relations with Cuba was met with heavy bipartisan resistance on Capitol Hill, raising questions of whether Congress will even consider easing a more than 50-year trade embargo against the communist state -- let alone end it.
December 5, 2016 UN apologizes for Haiti’s cholera epidemic without noting it brought the disease United Nations Secretary Ban Ki-moon has ended—sort of-- six years of UN stonewalling over Haiti’s mammoth cholera epidemic with a weak apology.
October 27, 2016 Blood and war: How a UN agency cooperates with Assad EXCLUSIVE: The United Nations’ World Health Organization, which claims “impartiality and independence from external sources and authorities” in its operations, has been quietly cooperating with Syria’s murderous Assad regime in one of the ugliest aspects of its civil war: the weaponization of blood.