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On Tuesday The New York Times printed the names of Marcus Alfred Rudolf Hellwig, a reporter, and Jens Andreas Koch, a photographer. They have been detained in Iran since October, when they traveled there to cover the story of a woman...

On January 9, 2011, Sudan’s Southern population of nearly 16 million – mostly Christians and animists, or practitioners of native religions – will vote on whether to become an independent nation.

Since the 1950’s, war has...

As the January 9 referendum approaches in Sudan, granting that country’s Southerners the chance to vote for independence and to become the world’s newest nation, signs are mixed. On the one hand, indicted war criminal Omar...

Ominous indicators out of Khartoum today as the country’s president, an indicted war criminal, warned that should Southerners vote for secession in January 9th’s long-awaited referendum, those Southerners...

One of the most disturbing pieces of information commentator Dick Morris shared in his speech last week at the Center for Security Policy’s award lunch was the fact that apparently last month, Iran received four A-300 anti-aircraft...

Looks like President Obama may have taken to heart some of the criticism he has received for putting Sudan on the back burner. In the opinion piece I’ve linked to in the previous sentence, veteran human rights reporter and columnist...

Commentator Dick Morris was on rhetorical fire at last week’s National Security & New Media Conference, where he received the Mightier Pen Award. Granted by the Center for Security Policy, a Washington D.C.-based national...

Pictures released yesterday of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the 43-year-old mother of two sentenced to death for adultery in Iran, at home with her son sparked rumors she was free. But sadly, the photos were actually part of a state...

Just received notice from the International Committee Against Stoning (ICAS), a human rights organization that has spearheaded the international campaign to free a 43-year-old mother of two sentenced to death in Iran for adultery, that...

German activists are raising an outcry over what they characterize as a growing “offensive of promoting German-Iran relations” on the part of German politicians and businesspeople that they believe is undercutting hard-won...