Five Australian soldiers have been killed by Afghan trainees in two separate incidents on Wednesday and Thursday, in the latest of such "insider attacks" leaving a bad taste in the mouth of US officials seeking to finish out a lost war for another two years. The...
Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said Tehran recognizes Western concerns about its nuclear program and is "ready" to "remove all these worries" if there is reciprocation from Washington. “I’m optimistic about … the future outcome of the talks of the P 5+1, but...
Republican nominee for President Mitt Romney is not ready to support a policy of establishing a no-fly zone inside Syria amid a stalemated civil conflict being fueled by foreign powers. "The governor has not called for a no-fly zone. Close friends of his such as Sens....
Five Australian soldiers have been killed by Afghan trainees in two separate incidents on Wednesday and Thursday, in the latest of such "insider attacks" leaving a bad taste in the mouth of US officials seeking to finish out a lost war for another two years. The...
Iraq executed 21 people convicted of terrorism charges on Tuesday, including three women, according to an Iraqi spokesman for the Justice Ministry. The appalling number of state executions in a single day is just one illustration of the wreck the United States left in...
A 42-year-old woman in Gaza is in critical condition after being shot on Wednesday by Israeli troops near the border, in an apparrently unprovoked shooting. "She was shot by several bullets, one of which hit her in the chest," said Ashraf al-Qudra, spokesman for the...
US officials reaffirmed on Tuesday that Iraq would receive a batch of F-16 fighter jets by September 2014, as the top American military officer visited Baghdad this week. The Obama administration agreed last year to sell 36 F-16 fighter jets to Iraq in a multi-billion...
President Barak Obama told reporters on Monday that any use of chemical or biological weapons in Syria would be a "red line" for his administration, prompting direct military intervention in the civil conflict in Syria. "The red line for us is if we start seeing a...
Russia on Monday claimed there was increasing evidence that Syrian rebels were receiving large amounts of Western-made arms, implying the US and its European allies are helping to fuel the ongoing violence in Syria. It has been well known that the US has been helping...
A US drone strike launched in northern Pakistan killed five people reported as militants in a suspected militant hideout. The target was an unnamed warlord leader, who was not among the five killed. As is usual, no hard information was provided about the individuals...
