Human Rights Watch says 7000 prisoners of Assad's forces were executed or died after torture.

Some Muslims are questioning the assumption that the Qur'an has to be obeyed.

Foam for extinguishing oil fires contains toxic chemicals; in some towns these have contaminated the drinking water and cause cancer.

Witnesses say that the thug that killed Darrius Stewart misrepresented the circumstances of firing the fatal shot; Stewart was moving away, not threatening the thug.

If the rest of the thug's story is correct, the thug had just had a need to defend himself. People cannot digest new information in a fraction of a second. Perhaps he had no time to consciously digest the fact that Stewart had started to flee, before firing the second shot.

US citizens: call on Congress to vote on an authorization for using military force against PISSI.