Afghan officials said they demanded the pullout of U.S. Special Operations forces because the NATO for months has ignored residents’ allegations of severe abuses committed by American troops and armed Afghans working with them.
A new Gallup poll found that 99% of Americans see Iran’s nuclear program as a threat to the US national security. They believe Iran’s imaginary weapons program is more of a threat than North Korea’s actual nuclear weapons.
An autopsy on the body of Arafat Jaradat, a 30-year-old father of two, showed that he died of "extreme torture" in Israeli custody and did not have a cardiac arrest, the Palestinian Authority Minister of Detainee Affairs said Sunday.
The Afghan president ordered US special forces to leave Wardak province within 2 weeks. The decision was taken due to allegations of disappearances and torture by Afghans considered to be part of US special forces
For Jews, the ancient tribal territories of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and west Menasheh – a.k.a. Judea and Samaria or the West Bank – form the very heartland of the homeland. Sadly, ceding these central areas to the Arabs remains a political possibil
It’s not enough that the most famous American jihadist in Somalia is a terminally wack rapper. Now Omar Hammami stands accused of not even writing his own lyrics.
President Barack Obama said Friday that about 100 American troops have been deployed to the African nation of Niger. Two U.S. defense officials the troops would be setting up a base for unarmed drones to conduct surveillance.
To get his pick to lead the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) through the Senate, President Barack Obama has opted to bargain with Republicans on Benghazi instead of disclosing secret drone warfare memos to members of his own party, The New York Time
While the US and its Western partners pretend to be engaged in a global war against terrorism, their terrorist allies in Syria have set off another car bomb, tellingly very close to the ruling Baath party offices and the Russian embassy.
Bulgaria's government resigned on Wednesday after mass protests against high power prices and falling living standards, joining a long list of European administrations felled by austerity during four years of debt crisis.
It’s a matter of time until the United States becomes more involved with the Malian occupation. However with indication from Senator Chris Cons, that involvement could come through politics. So far, the U.S. has provided logistical support, refueling
She heard about a Western-based religious charity that mentored slum kids and served food near her alleyway, and also taught the kids some odd game called chess.
“I was hungry,” Mutesi says, “I’d never heard of chess, and I’d never seen it. So… I
Civilians are safer from harm in Afghanistan’s decade-long conflict than at any time since before the U.S. troop surge, according to new United Nations statistics.
When President Obama rebuffed national security officials who wanted to arm the rebels in Syria, he put an end to a months of debate over how aggressively Washington should respond to the strife there that has now left nearly 70,000 dead.
Rejecting a push by Britain, European governments decided against providing weapons to Syrian rebel forces, expressing fears that more arms would lead only to more bloodshed in a conflict that has already taken nearly 70,000 lives.
Barack Obama will become the first serving US president to receive Israel’s presidential medal, from his Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres on a visit to the Jewish state next month, Peres’s office said on Monday.
An Israeli soldier has sparked outrage by posting a photograph appearing to show the back of a Palestinian boy’s head in the crosshairs of his sniper rifle on a social networking site.
“the Muslim Brothers embrace the same neoliberal policies favored by the Mubarak regime and, if anything, envision an even more expansive program of privatization of public assets.”
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday stated that sanctions on Iran would not stop its nuclear program, pointing to North Korea as an example of the failure of sanctions to halt a country’s pursuit of nuclear weapons.
In the ten years following 9/11, the FBI and the Justice Department convicted more than 150 people following sting operations, though few had any connection to real terrorists.
Prime Minister Netanyahu said “overexposure” of intelligence activities could seriously harm national security, and that Israel’s security agencies should be allowed to get on “quietly” with their jobs.