Obama: Military 'Limitations' Reason America Can't Intervene in Syria
• weeklystandard.comIn an interview with the New Republic, President Barack Obama explained that military "limitations" are a reason America can't intervene in Syria.
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In an interview with the New Republic, President Barack Obama explained that military "limitations" are a reason America can't intervene in Syria.
There's growing interest from the international community for a resumption of multilateral nuclear talks with Iran, said Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi.
Amid growing fears that Syria's stockpile of unconventional weapons may fall into terrorists' hands, Hezbollah set up bases in Syria, an Israeli news site said.
Iran Monday denied western reports of an explosion that damaged the Fordow uranium enrichment installation last week, calling them "sheer lies."
Israeli and Iranian officials have both failed to explain the mystery of a reported explosion said to have rocked the notoriously impregnable Fordow nuclear site in Iran.
Police tear-gassed protesters Cairo on Monday as clashes still gripped Egypt despite a state of emergency being declared. Some 50 people have died in five days of unrest, and there are reports of yet another death near Tahrir Square
Israel is using lethal force on unarmed Palestinian protesters in the West Bank, according to the latest report by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem. It says 56 people were killed in the clashes, with an average age of 18.
Iran has slapped a ban on oil and gas exports to the European Union, even though the EU has already forbidden Iranian petrochemicals from entering its territory.
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Egypt’s president declared a state of emergency and curfew in 3 provinces hit hardest by a wave of unrest that left more than 50 dead, using tactics of the ousted regime to get a grip on discontent over his Islamist policies and the slow pace of chan
Henry Kissinger recently gave an ominous forecast on the future of Iran's nuclear program: that it will be taken care of one way or another very soon.
After years of warning that President Obama’s targeted killing program flirted with lawlessness, the United Nations has announced it’s investigating the centerpiece of the U.S.’s shadow wars worldwide. The focus will be on an “applicable legal framew
Moscow is criticized for weak support of the Arab Spring, and for actively backing Bashir al-Assad in Syria. But the Kremlin says its policies are consistent and the West is exporting revolt.
Why should we worry if jihadists control a poor, landlocked country thousands of miles away?
The first of six Patriot missile batteries being deployed to Turkey to protect against attack from Syria was declared operational and placed under NATO command, the international organization said Saturday.
The United States is significantly expanding its assistance to a French assault on Islamist militants in Mali by offering aerial refueling and planes to transport soldiers from other African nations, the Pentagon announced Saturday night.
In the bloody aftermath of street protests that turned violent on Friday in Falluja, Iraq’s Parliament passed a law on Saturday intended to prevent Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki from seeking a third term.
Dubai is no stranger to breaking records.
Dubai is no stranger to breaking records.
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Six protesters were killed after heavy clashes between protesters and security forces in Egypt, Al Arabiya correspondent reported on Friday.
Nuclear negotiations with Iran, in the right spirit, will work. US-led trade embargos and military threats will bring only disaster
Was it a military confrontation - the week long India-Pakistan acrimony over bloody incidents on the Line of Control (LOC) in Kashmir, which resulted in the killing of four soldiers?
When fundamentalist rebel forces overran the central Malian city of Konna on January 11, they sent shockwaves not only through Mali itself but through the international community as well.
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There is a saying, "Once bitten, twice shy".
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul took what very well could be considered his most pro-Israel stance yet, saying in an interview that an attack on Israel should be treated as an attack on the United States.
China's PLA "sunk" a U.S. aircraft carrier during a war game in remote China using its DF-21D "Carrier Killer" missile, reports Taiwan paper Want China Times.
Confirmation Hearings Seen as Formality, Approval Could Come Tuesday
NATO's Patriot anti-missile defense batteries along Turkey's border with Syria will become operational this week, a senior official said. Patriot batteries sent by the United States, Germany and the Netherlands have reached Turkey