President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday announced his intention to again make a bid at the United Nations to upgrade the status of Palestine to "a state under occupation." "When we go to the UN, we will say we are a state under occupation,"...
Egypt said Saturday that its military offensive in the Sinai Peninsula is coordinated with Israel and doesn't violate the two nations' peace treaty. Early last month the Egyptian government cracked down with heavy military reinforcements in the Sinai following a...
Foreign Islamic extremists "intent on turning Syria into an autocratic theocracy have swollen the ranks of rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad and think they are waging a 'holy war,'" Reuters reports a surgeon treating rebel fighters in Aleppo as...
The Obama administration has officially designated the Pakistan-based Haqqani network as a foreign terrorist organization, in a controversial move with unknown consequences for the drawing down of the war in Afghanistan and US-Pakistani relations. The Haqqani network...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's most recent diplomatic trip to China was met with friction and disagreement from a Chinese government responding negatively to being bullied in its own back yard by an aggressive and militaristic United States bent on containing...
A much-talked about and rumored diplomatic confrontation between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the American ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro did, in fact, unravel into an unusually sharp shouting match, according to Rep. Mike Rogers. Rogers (R-MI) is...
After being briefed by top US military officials, the two top Israeli leaders that have been pushing for war on Iran suggested Obama's hardline postures and militarism in the Middle East may have eliminated the need for a preemptive Israeli strike on Iran. Secretary...
President Obama is sending more spies and diplomats to Turkey's border with Syria to train more of Syria's rebel forces and increase the supposed vetting process put in place to weed out al-Qaeda militants, who now make up a large part of the opposition fighters. For...
A US helicopter went down in Eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing two US troops, the third time in 10 days that a coalition helicopter has come down. The Defense Department official would not confirm the cause of the crash, saying it is under investigation. But...
The Afghan government expelled or arrested hundreds of soldiers on suspicion of being infiltrators on behalf of the insurgency, after pressure from the US and NATO to do something about the dramatic rise in "insider attacks." The arrests come after NATO's top...
