The Syrian city of Homs was the latest to be attacked as the Assad regime continues making war on its own people, despite promises to end the assaults. Army tanks rolled into Homs early Saturday, snipers took positions, and shots have been firing indiscriminately....
Libyan rebels continued to battle Gadhafi forces for control of cities and towns on either side of the encircled capital Tripoli on Saturday, at one point allowing the fighting to spill across the border into Tunisia where Libyan infiltrators clashed with Tunisian...
With the country's immense debt and deficits, budget talks have made their way to the military's notoriously generous benefits packages. Although no changes have been made, or even officially proposed, the notion of cutting military benefits and packages has prompted...
The Pentagon is training people in economic warfare. Their most menacing military competitor owns too much U.S. debt for comfort, they say, and America is more vulnerable with every new dollar of debt run up by Washington. So the Pentagon is running economic war games...
Turkish warplanes have hit rebel Kurdish bases in northern Iraq for the last two nights. The strikes aimed at bases used by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) following an attack by the separatists that killed nine Turkish troops and another 14 injured in the attack...
At least 26 people were killed in a series of violent attacks on Thursday in eastern and western Afghanistan, illustrating once again the continuing mayhem in the war torn country despite Washington characterizing the war as winding down. A minibus filled with Afghan...
The Obama administration officially called for Syrian President Bashar al Assad to step down on Thursday, after months of violence against the Syrian people protesting for reforms which United Nations investigators say "may amount to crimes against humanity."...
Egypt and the United States are postponing a major military exercise called Bright Star, the largest drills of their kind in the region. The multi-national training exercise conducted in Egypt, and co-hosted by Egypt and the United States normally occurs every two...
One month before what may be an historic United Nations showdown over Palestinian statehood, both Palestinian and Israeli authorities are bracing for the possibility of mass street protests that some fear could spiral into a violent uprising. Palestinian leaders are...
The moral standing of the United States of America has deteriorated in the decade since 9/11. Ten years of unnecessary and calamitous war, torture, indefinite detention, warrantless surveillance, and hubris has degraded its standing as a steadfast defender of liberty...
