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The US is known to have bombarded targets in Yemen with twelve missile strikes so far this year, following a total of forty strikes in 2012. At least 24 children under the age of 18 have been killed by US strikes against Yemen.
That worldwide terrorism alert? Those sweeping U.S. embassy closures? All because American intelligence intercepted a — get this — "conference call" led by al-Qaida al-Zawahiri that included al-Qaida affiliate leaders around the world.
Hasan, who is representing himself, admitted to being the shooter and carrying out the attacks on behalf of the mujahideen, or holy warriors.
As Afghanistan quickly unravels and the Taliban resume control over large areas of the country, the Obama Administration appears to be rushing to spend as much money as possible before we are kicked out. The latest example is the Pentagon
Yemeni officials say that militants have shot down an army helicopter, killing all eight people on board including a military commander. The officials say the helicopter was downed by a missile over the al-Qaida stronghold of Wadi Ubida in central
A pair of suspected U.S. drone strikes killed four al Qaeda militants in Yemen as the United States maintained a heightened security alert in the country and urged all Americans to leave immediately.
We examine the connection between a series of prison breaks and the closure of Western embassies across the Middle East.
Flash floods caused by unusually heavy rain across Afghanistan and Pakistan killed more than 160 people and stranded villagers in remote areas without shelter, food or power in one of South Asia's worst natural disasters this year, officials said on
When Iranian American anthropologist Pardis Mahdavi first visited Tehran in the summer of 2000, she expected to encounter the Iran she grew up imagining. Her family remembered violence and extremism, and these were the images that stuck: “women clad
Humanity's dramatic race across the Old World after it left its African cradle has been told countless times.
An American diplomat who was speeding crossed the center line in his SUV and rammed into a full mini-bus, killing a father of 3 whose widow is 6 months pregnant. US Embassy officials rushed the American out of Kenya the next day,
35 CIA operatives were working in the city during the attack last September on the US consulate that resulted in the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens and 3 other Americans. The CIA was working to supply missiles from Libyan armories to rebels
Residents of a-Nabi Saleh, a village in the West Bank, regularly demonstrate against their dispossession from privately- owned land and a local spring by settlers from nearby Halamish. The footage shows Israeli soldiers using stun grenades,
The CIA is subjecting operatives working in Libya to polygraphs as much as once a month to stop them from leaking to the press or Congress about Benghazi. Usually, CIA operatives are polygraphed only once every 3 or 4 years.
Egypt is a disaster veering toward catastrophe. The Obama administration’s decision to ignore the law by continuing U.S. assistance is making the situation worse. Indeed, the administration’s main achievement has been to make America the target of bo
Supporters of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan have been getting U.S. military contracts, and American officials are citing “due process rights” as a reason not to cancel the agreements, according to an independent agency monitoring spending.
Supporters of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan have been getting U.S. military contracts, and American officials are citing “due process rights” as a reason not to cancel the agreements, according to an independent agency monitoring spending.
In his second term, Richard Nixon had Watergate, but also the rescue of Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) plans to propose an amendment to a transportation and housing spending bill that would use $1.5 billion in foreign aid originally allocated to Egypt for domestic infrastructure projects.
War in Israel has become a constant source of profit, with the West Bank and Gaza Strip used as experimental sites for arms dealers backed up by intellectuals. These are the protagonists of ‘The Lab,’ a new film by Yotam Feldman. In its exceptional i
On Tuesday, General James Mattis, the commander of the US Central Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington that 13,600 soldiers should remain in Afghanistan beyond 2014. "I have made my recommendation… That recommendation is
Egypt's interior minister pledged to deal decisively with any attempts to destabilize the country as the death toll in weekend clashes between Morsi's Islamist backers and security forces near one of those sit-ins reached 72,
New film has emerged apparently showing the aftermath of another massacre in Syria.
As the U.S. prepares to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, the government watchdog charged with overseeing nearly $100 billion in contracts to reconstruct the country has found almost $2 billion in potential waste, fraud and abuse in the last three...
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are reeling from another devastating blockade but this time they are blaming Egypt, the neighboring Arab power they once hoped would end their isolation, rather than their old foe Israel.
Over 500 Detainees Escaped
House Intelligence Committee chairman Mike Rogers said a “consensus” was reached to accept Obama’s plan despite “very strong concerns about the strength of the administration’s plans in Syria and its chances for success.”
A Yemeni journalist who was kept in prison for years at the apparent request of the Obama administration has been released. Abdulelah Haider Shaye was imprisoned in 2010, after reporting an attack was carried out by the United States
Al Qaeda claimed responsibility on Tuesday for simultaneous raids on two Iraqi prisons and said more than 500 inmates had been set free in the operation, one of its most brazen in Iraq.
Former CIA officer Ray McGovern: "There is an interest to keep the pot boiling, to keep sunni and shia at each other's throats not only within Syria but within the whole area. There are enough weapons now to go around".
