IRAQ

The West is bracing for long military operations in Libya to help end conflict there, U.S. President Barack Obama told the British parliament on Wednesday.

This is the full text of U.S. President Barack Obama's speech to both UK houses of parliament.

In the run-up to Turkey’s national elections next month, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is seeking the support of a rather unusual group – the country’s Kurdish minority population.

Aren't you at all curious about who's behind this lynching by media scam? This is an all-out, no-holds-barred, steel-cage, take-down. The big boys save that kind of action for the worst offenders, that is, for the insiders who have broken Omerta or wandered off the reservation. Even Bernie Madoff was allowed to stay in his $7 million Park Avenue penthouse.

At least 27 people were killed and around a hundred wounded when a bomb hidden in a car exploded in a parking lot outside the main police offices in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq on Thursday.

Here is the White House text of President Barack Obama‘s speech on the Middle East, as prepared for delivery.

Battling all objections from Iraq, the first film adaptation of controversial author Salman Rushdie's “Booker of Bookers novel Midnight's Children has finished shooting in Sri Lanka.

At least 24 people were killed and 80 injured in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk in three different bombing incidents on Thursday.

There are two carved-in-granite long-term economic trends; one of them being the decline of the dollar and the other one being war. I think those are locked in, and so I recommend people buy investments that do well during wartime or during periods of currency debasement, which we have.

Hillary, in an unprecedented act of hypocrisy, denounced China for human rights violations. This from a country that has violated the human rights of millions of victims in our own time in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, secret CIA prisons dotted all over the planet, in US courts of law, and in the arrests and seizure of documents of American war protestors.

Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, whose views on fiscal conservatism and strong views on smaller government resonate with the conservative movement which swept Republicans into office in 2010, on Friday announced he is running for U.S. President in the 2012 election, saying his grass root supporters were enthusiastic, 'more so than ever.'

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has dismissed the current privacy law in U.S as a ‘violation of human rights’, responding to the debate on super-injunctions.

U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers said there is no apparent evidence that senior Pakistani officials harbored and protected Osama bin Laden, although he concedes some people in Pakistan must have been aware of the terror chieftain’s existence inside the country.

Remarks by the President on Comprehensive Immigration Reform in El Paso, Texas

President Barack Obama‘s speech on immigration in El Paso, Texas on May 10, 2011.

The Islamic Republic of Iran finds itself grappling with new realities in a Middle East that has been turned upside-down by an unprecedented wave of revolt and rebellion

U.S. President Barack Obama, who had planned to make a state visit to Pakistan later this year in order to commend Islamabad for helping to tackle terrorism and to show that he did not favor India, now might have second thoughts.

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro derided U.S. action that killed Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden calling it an abhorrent deed.

The early raid on Monday morning that killed world’s most wanted terrorist Osama Bin Laden carried out by US navy Seals has put them in a spotlight.

U.S. president Barack Obama will meet on Friday with members of the US Navy SEALs who took part in the commando raid that resulted in the death of terror chief, Osama bin Laden, according to media reports.

Studies show that one out of eight soldiers who fought in Iraq shows signs and symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder. According to the U.S. Naval Health Research Center, a soldier who has a pre-existing mental disorder has a higher possibility of getting a post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after being sent to a battlefield. Soldiers diagnosed with anxiety disorder, depression, personality disorder or any other psychiatric disease has the potential to develop the PTSD.