Despite the close diplomatic ties between the US and Israel on the surface, the intelligence agencies of both countries are anything but friendly, according to former US officials. "The CIA considers Israel its No. 1 counterintelligence threat in the agency's Near...
Syrian President Bashar Assad, amid growing unrest, has granted control of parts of northern Syria over to militant Kurds, long branded as terrorists by Turkey, in a provocation that could lead the conflict to break out internationally. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip...
Brigadier General Manaf Tlass, who defected from the Syrian regime earlier this month, is presenting himself as the top pick for Syria's new leader after Bashar al-Assad, whose regime is being called upon by the US and its allies to step down. "I left [Syria]… to try...
Ecuador's foreign minister says there will be no decision on the political exile request of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange until after the Summer Olympics. Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said on Wednesday it would be unwise to announce a decision during the Olympic...
After years of development and hundreds of millions of dollars in costs, the US Air Force Secretary said on Wednesay that huge bunker buster bombs built to hit Iran's nuclear facilities are ready to go if necessary. The 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator is...
In response to Israeli allegations of involvement in the Bulgaria bus bomb that killed several Israeli tourists, Iran called the charges baseless and suggested Israel may have carried out the attack itself. Iran's United Nations Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee said "we...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday accused the US and its allies of prolonging the Syrian conflict by supporting the rebel militias and calling for the Assad regime's unequivocal surrender. The United States and its allies in several European and Arab...
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he will not tolerate a Kurdish safe-haven in Syria following reports that Kurdish rebels and a Syrian Kurdish political party had taken control of large swathes of territory along the Turkish-Syrian border. Erdogan...
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak implied for about the millionth time on Wednesday that Israel may attack Iran if sanctions fail to fail to persuade Tehran to dismantle their civilian nuclear program. Speaking during a lecture at the Israeli Defense Force's...
Al-Qaeda militants and other Sunni extremists are becoming a greater and greater part of the conflict in Syria, just as the US officially announced it was abandoning any pretense of a diplomatic approach in favor of toppling the regime through proxy rebel groups. "The...
