Admiral Mike Mullen said that the Inter Services Intelligence, Pakistan's intelligence agency, is supporting militant extremists in the Haqqani network in Afghanistan, at a Senate hearing on Thursday. With rising insurgent violence in Afghanistan - including a...
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta declared Thursday that he will not see the Pentagon budget cut. "I don't want to hollow out the force," Panetta told the Senate Armed Services Committee. "I am not going to do that." Either forgetting or disregarding two important...
Congressional leaders are falling over one another to show their support for Israel by moving to punish the Palestinian Authority for seeking United Nations membership by revoking the $600 million in annual aid the US sends to Palestinians. But the public display of...
Rebel attacks accompanied by NATO airstrikes on the Libyan city of Sirte have killed 151 civilians, according to a spokesman for the fugitive leader Muammar Gadhafi. "Between yesterday and this morning, 151 civilians were killed inside their homes as the Grad rockets...
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has submitted a list of requests for United States assistance in countering Kurdish separatists. “There is a list of requests we have conveyed to them regarding the fight against the PKK,” Erdogan said, referring to the...
Thirty-five dead bodies were dumped close to the port of Veracruz in Mexico on Tuesday along with a threatening message to Mexico's most notorious drug cartel, as drug-related gang violence continues to rise in the region. The banner found nearby read "This is going...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked President Barak Obama after his United Nations speech defending opposition to Palestinian statehood, saying the US president wore "a badge of honor" by insisting Palestinians abandon their bid for statehood and rejoin...
The Obama administration's legal team is split over whether it is permissible to assassinate the thousands of al-Qaeda-affiliated individuals in Yemen or Somalia, or whether lethal force must be reserved for self-defense against individuals known to be plotting...
A judge will decide on Wednesday whether former Guatemalan General Hector Mario Lopez Fuentes should be tried in connection with 635 massacres of indigenous people. If he goes to trial, it would mark the first genocide case in Guatemala's history. Fuentes was...
Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani was assassinated on Tuesday by a suicide bomber with explosives hidden in his turban, according to Kabul police officials. Two confidential sources in the Afghan government said Rabbani, president of the Afghan government...
