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State Department employee Anne Smedinghoff was killed in Afghanistan last weekend. At first reports suggested the young diplomat was part of an armed convoy that was bombed, but new reports say that she was actually on foot. And that the group she wa
An Iranian inventor claims to have created a ‘time machine’ that can predict a person’s future. He boasts that the device is relatively cheap, but says he has not built one yet because he fears that the Chinese will steal his idea.
Five Jewish feminists who on Thursday wore prayer shawls and prayed out loud at Jerusalem’s Western Wall in defiance of a court order have been detained for questioning, a police spokeswoman said.
Syrian activists on Thursday dismissed as “blatant interference” a weekend call by Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri for an Islamic state to be established in the strife-torn country.
Palestinian officials on Thursday joined a ceremony to lay the cornerstone for a new museum of Palestinian culture, history and society in Bir Zeit near Ramallah.
Israeli troops shot and wounded a physically disabled Palestinian man during an arrest operation in the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday, a prisoners’ rights group said.
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For now, the gas is being pumped to mainland Israel, where it will feed the domestic market, but exports should begin in 2-3 years. What Israel has in mind is the European market, via a hoped-for undersea Mediterranean pipeline to Turkey, which has t
News reports on the Sept. 8, 2008attack in Dandey Darapakhel said that among as many as 25 dead were an Arab who was chief of al Qaida’s operations in Pakistan, and 8 of Jalaluddin Haqqani’s grandchildren, one of his wives, two nieces and a sister.
Discussions of how to respond to climate change often involve Very Large Numbers
With help from the C.I.A., Arab governments and Turkey have sharply increased their military aid to Syria’s opposition fighters in recent months, expanding a secret airlift of arms and equipment for the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, acc
An Iraqi official says the country has forced an Iranian plane headed to Syria to land in Baghdad so authorities could search it for arms. It's the third inspection in as many days.
A military judge ruled a member of the team that raided Osama bin Laden’s compound would testify at the court-martial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, part of the prosecution’s attempt to link the al-Qaeda leader to material leaked by the soldier.
At the center of corruption is the Federal Reserve who has gained enormous amounts of control over America’s economy, with disastrous effects beginning to show.
Netanyahu Dismisses Kerry Comments, Insists Israel Will Not Rely on Anyone
Finished with her he settled in front of a TV set, the gun on a table by his side. Choosing her moment, Mariam picked up the gun shot her assailant in the head and turned the gun on herself. "Three days later I woke up in the hospital," she said,
A British-based group with a network of activists across Syria, felt compelled to single out the Badr Martyrs' Battalion, a unit of the Free Men of Syria Brigade, after collecting large numbers of witness accounts of frequent detentions and torture.
President Barack Obama took the first step Monday toward providing US military assistance to Somali forces battling Islamist militants, after the easing of a UN arms embargo last month.
A judge found it "stunning" that federal budget woes could delay the start of a terrorism trial for Osama bin Laden's son-in-law. Sulaiman Ghaith, pleaded not guilty to charges he conspired to kill Americans in his role as al-Qaida's top propagandist
The De-Baathification law and the notorious use of that law by Shi’ite politicians to ban Sunni opponents from office has been a long-standing thorn in the side of sectarian relations in Iraq. That could be coming to an end, per a move by the cabinet
Steinitz: Iran Must Halt Entire Program or Face Attack
Destroyed Several Houses, Killing Women and Children Within
The Chinese are careening about the Far Pacific in the traditional manner of newly important countries — as during the Wilhelmine period in post-Bismarck Germany — announcing chunks of the Pacific to be “Chinese lakes,” and demanding a doffing of the
Relatives and colleagues of a young US diplomat killed in Afghanistan honored her as a smart woman just starting her career and eager to engage with locals in the war-ravaged country.
A fierce battle between U.S.-backed Afghan forces and Taliban militants in a remote corner of eastern Afghanistan left nearly 20 people dead, including 11 Afghan children killed in an airstrike and an American civilian adviser, officials said Sunday.
500 people marched for much of the day through Cairo, chanting "The people want to topple the regime" on the fifth anniversary of the founding of the opposition April 6 youth movement. When some protesters hurled fireworks and rockets at
The target was not a top operative of Al Qaeda, but a Pakistani ally of the Taliban who led a tribal rebellion and was marked by Pakistan as an enemy of the state. In a secret deal, the C.I.A. had agreed to kill him in exchange for access to
Though still a concept, this robot lifeguard should be one robot people are grateful to see coming.
Greg Palast is a New York Times bestselling author and fearless investigative journalist whose reports appear on BBC Television Newsnight and in The Guardian.
