America's war in Afghanistan "will not be successful," Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Thursday before accusing Western media of waging "psychological warfare" on his country. Karzai said US efforts to defeat the Taliban and militancy in Afghanistan would fail...
A US or Israeli attack on Iran would "prove catastrophic" and "make a nuclear-armed Iran inevitable," former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said in a speech Wednesday night. Neither the United States nor Israel is capable of wiping out Iran's nuclear capability,...
A drone strike bombed two cars in southern Yemen on Thursday, killing five people allegedly suspected of belonging to the al-Qaeda-linked group Ansar al-Sharia. Witnesses said the drone fired four missiles at the two cars as they travelled through the town of Saeed in...
Syria Apologizes for Shelling Turkey | Assad regime vows “such an incident will not occur again”
The Turkish military on Wednesday launched artillery attacks against Syria in response to cross-border shelling which killed five civilians in southeastern Turkey, sharply raising tensions that Syria's civil conflict is spilling over its own borders. Turkish Prime...
Boondoggle Intel Prgm Abuses Liberties | Senate finds a DHS program wasted billions, infringed liberties
Court Restores NDAA Detention | Appeals court threw out injunction against indefinite detention
Libya's Islamist rebel groups have attracted attention in the aftermath of the attack on the US consulate building in Benghazi last month, reminding observers that the NATO war there last year was not fought on behalf of secular freedom fighters. Rebel fighters that...
The top-secret Joint Special Operations Command may be preparing to engage in kill or capture operations targeted at some of the militants suspected of attacking the US consulate in Libya last month that killed four Americans. JSOC is preparing what senior military...
The Pentagon says it will be able to continue funding for at least the next 90 days US military personnel in Iraq who are training Iraqi security forces, even though Congress stripped money for the program in a recent resolution. About $1.7 million will be taken "from...
