Israel's Defense Force is said to be beefing up its defensive capacities and preparing for the possibility of an armed conflict on several fronts, just days after top Israeli officials got in another diplomatic clash on how imminent a threat Iran presents. The...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton explained on Saturday that the US will broaden contacts with the Syrian opposition trying to overthrow the regime of President Bashar al-Assad and work more with Turkey for "operational planning" of the Syrian conflict. Visiting...
Three more US soldiers were shot and killed on Saturday by an Afghan trainee at a base in Helmand province, raising to six the number of American troops killed by their Afghan partners in just 24 hours. On Friday, gunmen in Afghan uniforms shot and killed three US...
The White House reiterated on Friday that it uses covert means to spy on Iran's nuclear program and that the US "would know if and when Iran made" the decision to start a weapons program. White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters "we have eyes -- we have...
Gunmen in Afghan uniforms shot and killed three US special operations forces in southern Afghanistan, marking the 28th killed by so-called green-on-blue attacks this year. The US troops were lured to their deaths by an Afghan police commander who invited them to...
The Pentagon will begin flying surveillance drones off the coastlines of Japan, China and Taiwan, an agreement reached after talks between Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Japanese Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto at the Pentagon on Sunday. The unmanned aerial...
Following rumors in Israel of a new US intelligence report warning of Iranian progress on a nuclear weapon, US officials told Reuters on Thursday that their intelligence still says Iran is not on the verge of getting nuclear weapons. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud...
The Egyptian government seems to be cracking down on its Sinai Peninsula for the god graces of the Israeli government, following militant attacks on Sunday. After 16 Egyptian soldiers were killed by Islamist militants coming from the Sinai who then tried to penetrate...
Gunfire broke out on Thursday in the Sinai Peninsula between armed individuals and Egyptian police, just one day after Egypt's military sent attack helicopters to the region following a terrorist attack early in the week. Gunman reportedly fired shots towards a police...
The Ugandan military, under the auspices of the US-backed African Union forces, has deployed an air force contingent in Somalia to aid an onslaught on the city of Kismayu to rout out al-Shabab militants. "Conditions keep changing in Somalia and we felt it was the...
