Ahmadinejad: Inflation Due to US Sanctions | Iran’s President said US waging ‘psychological war’
Ahmadinejad Blames US Sanctions for Drop in Currency
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US Official: Military Action Needed in Mali
A top US official told the Associated Press that military action will be needed to eliminate radical Islamists from the haven they've developed in northern Mali. Johnnie Carson, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs, told reporters that the...
US Initially Refuses to Admit Newest ‘Insider Attack’ in Afghanistan
An insider attack has killed two Americans in Afghanistan a mere two days after the US resumed operations with Afghan security forces that were suspended in response to such attacks. US and NATO officials initially refused to label the incident an "insider attack," in...
Iraq’s Monthly Death Toll Bloodiest in Two Years
The death toll from militant attacks across Iraq doubled in September to 365, the highest monthly toll in more than two years, Reuters reports. Americans can still hear Republicans in Washington crow about how the surge in Iraq worked, without noting the now obvious...
NATO Withdrawal From Afghanistan ‘Could Accelerate’ Amid Blatant Failures
Some US and allied forces in Afghanistan could possibly withdraw sooner than the expected date of the end of 2014, according to NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. "From now until the end of 2014 we will see announcements of redeployments, withdrawals or...
US May Keep American Troops in Iraq, Despite Lack of Authority
US to Keep Small Units in Iraq | US troops are training Maliki’s abusive security forces
Yemen President Warns of Civil War ‘Worse Than Afghanistan’
Yemeni President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi warned on Saturday that his country, still unstable after a US-backed transition ousted his predecessor Ali Abdullah Saleh, risks a descent into a civil war "worse than Afghanistan." Hadi boasted about what he described as...
Last Western Gitmo Detainee Transferred Out After 10 Years
The last Westerner in the Guantanamo Bay detention facility has been transfered out to a maximum security prison in his home country of Canada. Omar Khadr was 15 years old when he was captured in Afghanistan in 2002. In 2010, he plead guilty under terms of a plea deal...
Iran DM: Israel Should Draw ‘Red Line’ For Its Own Nuclear Program
Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said Saturday that Israel should draw a "red line" for itself, instead of Iran, according to AFP. In the context of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to the United Nations General Assembly, Vahidi said that “if...
Clinton Slams Iran For Aiding ‘Its Proxy and Crony in Damascus’
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticized Iran for supporting the Syrian regime, even as she announced $45 million more in aid for the rebel militias, many of whom have links to al-Qaeda. "There is no longer any doubt that Tehran will do whatever it takes to...
