Rival militias about 10 miles west of Libya's capital clashed violently over the weekend, ending with the death of one local official and the destruction of a militia base to rubble. Libya's new government has still not been able to assert control over the country, as...
In the first free and fair elections in Egypt's history, the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) won approximately 40 percent of the vote and the radical Islamic Salafi movement's Al-Nour Party won 20 percent. After decades of being outlawed and...
In over a decade of war in Afghanistan, about half of all Americans killed in action and two thirds of those wounded have done so in 2010 and 2011, according to a Congressional Research Service report. At the time the report was published on November 16, 1,723...
The Democratically-controlled Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly passed an enormous $662 billion defense bill, including a provision that would give the military the responsibility to indefinitely detain suspected terrorists, even if they are American citizens caught...
A Congressional report says Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram is an "emerging threat" to the US and its interests, and justifies entrenching military and security interests with the Nigerian government. "We ought to put much more into developing local...
A senior administration official traveling with Vice President Joe Biden told reporters on Wednesday that “There is no discussion, no contemplation, no thought of returning U.S. troops to Iraq.” The claim comes after contradictory statements from Obama administration...
At present, Israel does not want to launch a military strike against Iran, but it will hold that option as a last resort, according to Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Reiterating longstanding military propaganda, Barak explained that "all options are on the...
The U.S. may target and kill U.S. citizens when they take up arms with al-Qaeda, top lawyers in the Obama administration said Thursday. CIA counsel Stephen Preston and Pentagon counsel Jeh Johnson were questioned at a national security conference about the drone...
Republicans are hurriedly searching for ways to avoid any cuts to the defense budget after the super-committee's failure to propose overall cuts locked in automatic across the board cuts to defense in 2013. The approximately $1.2 trillion in automatic budget cuts -...
WikiLeaks has released secret files shining light on the mass surveillance practices of dozens of governments and the corporate contractors that provide the technology. The whistle-blowing organization, according to a press release and a new "Spy files" section of the...
