The US is expanding its covert military and intelligence operations across Africa, establishing a network of small bases and surveillance procedures as special operations forces infiltrate and train numerous armies, all under the pretext of fighting terrorism. "At the...
The former chief of Israel's foreign intelligence service is again speaking out against an Israeli strike on Iran, arguing that such preemption will only embolden the Islamic Republic and push them towards getting nuclear weapons. Ex-Mossad chief Meir Dagan, who made...
Twenty-six members of Congress have called on President Barack Obama to provide a legal justification for so-called “signature” drone strikes that the CIA and special operations forces have been launching in Pakistan and Yemen. Signature strikes are drone bombings...
A US drone strike on Wednesday in Yemen's southeastern Shabwa province killed nine people, described by anonymous tribal and Yemeni government sources as 'al-Qaeda militants.' "A US drone struck a house where al-Qaeda militants were meeting, and a car nearby," in the...
A series of bombings across 10 locations in Iraq has killed up to 83 people and wounded about 300, in a grim reminder of the sectarianism and violence left behind by the U.S. war. Suicide bombs went off in restaurants and car bombs exploded in Hilla and Baghdad, where...
An Islamist website published a video message on Tuesday from Abu Yahya al-Libi, the high-level al-Qaeda member that Washington supposedly killed in a drone strike for at least the second time, although it was unclear when the message was recorded. Obama...
The Obama administration has agreed to let numerous countries be exempt from penalties under a harsh new set of economic sanctions on Iran's oil sector, but has refused to grant China - a major importer of Iranian oil - such exemptions. The new round of sanctions are...
The Obama administration on Tuesday criticized Russia for sending attack helicopters to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime as the bloody conflict worsens amid meddling from foreign powers. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the U.S. was "concerned...
The Obama administration continues to insist the Syrian rebel fighters are too fractured and disorganized to warrant intervention to overthrow the regime of Bashar al-Assad, although advocates of the opposition still argue otherwise. "Of course you will not get 23...
The United States has threatened to impose sanctions on Somalis who try to obstruct the UN-backed political transition now under way, in a familiar blanket threat to anyone they deem a dissident. "The kind of action we must take against spoilers range from visa...
