American civilians continuously wounded, killed by US soldiers returning home from war.

Ban Ki-moon to transmit Goldstone's report to UN Security Council amid US-Israeli objections.

Analysis of Marie Claire’s stories on Islam shows magazine's distorted view of Muslim women.

Why this common tendency and double standard towards Islam and Muslims post-9/11? We judge the religion and majority of mainstream Muslims by the acts of an individual or an aberrant minority of extremists. Yet, when Jewish fundamentalists kill a prime minister or innocent Palestinians or Christian extremists blow up abortion clinics or assassinate their physicians, somehow the media is capable of sticking to all the facts and distinguishing between the use and abuse of a religion, notes John L. Esposito.

Obama began a test of strength with Israel over that country's policy of illegal settlements, an expansion of its occupation of the West Bank driven by extremist, right-wing settlers who are fanatical, Bible-believing cultists who think that Israel has some God-given right to that territory, notes Robert Dreyfuss.

US soldiers returning from Iraq routinely involved in shootings, suicide, self-destructive violence.

Resolution calls on Israel, Palestinians to conduct 'independent' Gaza probe within three months.

Yemeni rebels say they see no justification at all for current 'Saudi outrageous aggression'.

Iraqi religious leaders hit out at how MPs secure themselves lavish perks amid election crisis.

Turkish FM expects European countries to respect their own agreements on EU membership.

ElBaradei says compromise proposals being explored to reach uranium deal with Tehran.

Israeli officials say it is in interest of Tel Aviv, Washington to have Abbas remain in office.

No one knew on Thursday whether stress, fear, anger over mistreatment, mental illness or a warped understanding of his religion might have motivated Major Hasan. But there is a rush to judgment regarding not just this one Muslim but all Muslims, notes notes John Nichols.

Some American analysts have argued that Iran is quite right to be suspicious of US intensions and have identified a pattern of recent events that undermine the credibility of the Obama administration since the Presidents June 'open hand-clinched fist' speech in Cairo, notes Franklin Lamb.

In Egypt, the 28-year rule of US-backed president Hosni Mubarak has been most notable for political intimidation of opponents, suppression of dissent, and silencing any and all who dare challenge his authority, notes Rannie Amiri.

For opportunistic reasons, the Greens are now accusing Ahmadinejad of selling out Iran's nuclear rights. That very fact explains why it's wrong for the United States to try to game Iranian internal politics, notes Robert Dreyfuss.

A little publicized US-taxpayer-funded infrastructure boom has been underway in Afghanistan -- the construction boom is military in nature. The US military is digging in for an even longer haul, notes Nick Turse.

From the start, the Jewish nationalist movement’s objective was to open Palestine to unlimited immigration, colonize it and rob it of its independence. Labour did not review the old doctrine of territorial conquest when it was in power in 1967-77 or in the 1990s, notes Zeev Sternhell.

There is little relief in prospect for Obama from his Afpak nightmare. Hamid Karzai is back in power and it seems highly unrealistic to expect him to root out nepotism and corruption. Meanwhile, the United States' policies grow more unpopular in Pakistan, says Patrick Seale.

By withholding its support for the House (anti-Goldstone) resolution, J Street is sending a clear message that it intends to offer alternatives to initiatives that it perceives as bad for the United States and bad for Israel, notes M.J. Rosenberg.

In many ways, Obama's election was a referendum on an extremist conservatism that has guided (and deformed) American politics and society since the 1980s. But Obama failed to end the excesses and abuses associated with the Bush/Cheney national security apparatus, notes Katrina vanden Heuvel.

Isn’t it about time for the UK government to stand for its moral obligations towards the Palestinians and start to act in support of justice? Churchill said that creating a Jewish state on the Palestinian land 'is of the interests of the British Empire’. But ones interests do not justify injustice, notes Iqbal Tamimi.

For the past sixty years the invaders have systematically undertaken the ethnic cleansing of Palestine to make way for new Israelis. For this purpose the invaders have constructed a narrative the central theme of which is 'God gave this land to us', notes Terrell E. Arnold.