Karzai: US War in Afghanistan ‘Will Not Succeed’ The Taliban and other militants have not been diminished after a decade of war, Karzai warned
Robert Gates: War on Iran Would Be ‘Catastrophic,’ Make Tehran Nukes ‘Inevitable’ Former defense secretary Robert Gates said a US strike on Iran would 'haunt us for generations'
Drone Strike Kills Five Alleged Al-Qaeda Suspects in Yemen President Obama has redefined "imminent threat" to apparently include setting up a road-side checkpoint in far-off Yemen
Syria Formally Apologizes for Cross-Border Shelling into Turkey The Assad regime took credit for the cross-border attack and vowed "such an incident will not occur again"
Turkish Artillery Retaliates for Deadly Syrian Shelling NATO ambassadors condemned the Syrian shelling, but stopped short of escalatory actions
Intelligence Effort Wasted Billions, Watched Citizens, Abused Civil Liberties A Senate investigation finds the post-9/11 big government intelligence program is a bloated bureaucracy and infringes civil liberties
Appeals Court Restores NDAA’s Indefinite Detention Provisions An appeals court has rejected a previous judge's ruling that the government be barred from enforcing the NDAA provisions
Libya’s Jihadists Decry Western Meddling in Post-Gadhafi Governance Many Libyan rebels - formerly NATO's freedom fighters - continue to embrace jihad and denounce foreign meddling
US Preparing for JSOC ‘Kill-Capture’ Operations in Libya After Consulate Attack The preparations illustrate the administration's penchant for secrecy and killing, instead of transparency and trials
Pentagon Works Around Congress, Finds Funding for US Units in Iraq Small units of a couple of hundred US troops are still in Iraq training Prime Minister Maliki's abusive security forces
