Researchers with the New York-based Human Rights Watch today charged that the Syrian government is the likely culprit in chemical weapons attack on rebel-held suburbs of Damascus, which according to the Obama administration resulted in the deaths of 1429 people, including 426 children. The attacks a

“We ask the United States to work with other governments to obtain a ceasefire."

The Administrative Committee of the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops issued an urgent call for a political solution to the crisis in Syria today nbsp ldquo We ask the United States to work with other governments to obtain a ceasefire initiate serious negotiations provide impartial humanitaria

Lies, damn lies and statistics

The U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday some 30,000 Syrians had streamed into northern Iraq since last week and thousands more were waiting to enter, fleeing communities across a wide swathe of northern Syria. "With several tens of thousands of people having crossed since last week, this n

Responding to yesterday’s unprecedented violence in Cairo, President Obama this morning cancelled a biannual joint U.S.-Egyptian military exercise that had been scheduled for September. “While we want to sustain our relationship with Egypt, our traditional cooperation cannot continue as

Father Paolo Dall'Oglio disappeared in the east of the country late last month.

Egypt’s Christians appear to already be paying a price for the Egyptian military’s decision to dislodge largely peaceful protests in Cairo with a large-scale dispersal operation that quickly became violent. Numbers are in flux but scores have perished as the military moved in this mornin

House Republicans double down on cuts; Bishop Pates calls for compromise.

Secretary of State John Kerry and the U.S. State Department significantly raised the bar both on the ambitions and expectations for upcoming negotiations between West Bank Palestinians and the State of Israel. The wild card left out of the new discussions, which have set the laudable but so far elus