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US to investigate Afghan hospital air strike

An air strike, probably carried out by U.S.-led coalition forces, killed 19 staff and patients on Saturday, including three children, in a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, the aid group said. The U.S. military said it conducted an air strike “in[…]

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US and Syria opposition question Russia intentions

Russia says it has carried out air strikes on positions of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in Syria, but the US, NATO and the Syrian opposition have expressed concern that the bombardment instead targeted Western-backed rebels. President Vladimir Putin called Wednesday’s operation a pre-emptive strike[…]

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Russia calls on US for dialogue on Syria

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has called on the US to start a dialogue on solving the Syrian conflict, Reuters news agency reported. Peskov made the comments on Tuesday when asked whether talks on Syria were possible between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama. The announcement came after[…]

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9/11 art and the ‘Course of Empire’

One image shows smoke billowing from the World Trade Center. Another depicts the iconic hooded prisoner of Abu Ghraib. Nearby, Osama bin Laden and a grim promise that the “worst is yet to come”. Finally, a simple message: “USA: Fear Eats the Soul.” This is not propaganda spread by radical[…]

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Take US terror threat seriously:: ISS

The warnings of a possible terror attack against US interests in South Africa should be taken seriously, the Institute for Security Studies said. However, South Africa did not have a high risk of such attacks and people should not get too carried away, its executive director Jakkie Cilliers said. “The[…]

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