State Department Spokeswoman Jen Psaki revealed Monday that the U.S. had “indications” that a “toxic industrial chemical” had recently been used on the battlefield in Syria, and that Washington was examining the source of the attack, amid deepening suspicions that the Bashar al-Assad regime recently launched another chemical weapons attack...

A university in Turkey canceled a panel debate on homosexuality after receiving threats from the İlke Haber Ajansı media outlet, affiliated with the Sunni-Islamist-Kurdish movement known as Turkish Hezbollah (largely unconnected to the Shi’ite Lebanese movement Hezbollah). The move came days after Ankara announced plans for the segregation of LGBT...

The United Nation’s news service on Thursday conveyed a call by what the wire described as “a group of independent [U.N.] human rights experts” demanding that the Iranian government provide medical treatment – or, more precisely, that it cease denying such treatment – to blogger Mohammad Reza Pourshajari and religious cleric Sayed...

Syria now has only 17 days left to hand over the remainder of its chemical weapons stockpile or it will be in violation of a United Nations deadline that had originally been set as an alternative to a U.S.-led attack on Syrian military infrastructure, per comments made today by the...

Speaking Tuesday, the United Nation’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, flatly declared that war crimes and atrocities committed by the regime of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad far outweigh” what have been sometimes been treated as parallel actions by opposition elements: High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said both sides’...

Despite U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s best efforts to bring Israel and the Palestinians together at the negotiating table and Israel’s support for continued peace talks, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has once again broken his word to Israel and the United States. In addition to rejecting the basic...