The co-owner of a major Pentagon propaganda contractor publicly admitted Thursday that he was behind a series of coordinated misinformation campaigns targeting two USA Today journalists who had scrutinized the contractor in their reporting. Camille Chidiac is the...
Syria is aiding Kurdish rebels who are fighting Turkish forces by allowing them to establish bases in Syrian territory, a Turkish minister said Wednesday, in an apparent tit for tat response to Turkish conduct to do the same. Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin said...
The Obama administration is preparing a plan that would attempt to vet rebel militias in Syria to determine whether they would be suitable recipients of munitions coming through Gulf Arab states with U.S. help, according to officials. The officials, who remained...
A United Nations investigation said both Syrian government forces and rebel militias trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad committed serious human rights abuses, as fighting in the country continues despite an attempted ceasefire. The investigation, which relied...
The State Department recently carried out a counter-propaganda campaign on Web sites being used by al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen, challenging the anti-American narratives with others about civilians killed in terrorist strikes, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham...
Western leaders on Thursday rejected proposals by Iranian nuclear negotiators to alleviate concerns about Iran's nuclear program, while Iran rejected an incentive package from the six world powers. Iran and the P5+1 - the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France and...
The United States will employ "significant firepower" in Afghanistan in 2013-14, according to the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces there, but further U.S. troop reductions won't take place until after this fall at the latest. "We're going to need combat power. I...
Six Yemeni soldiers and 22 alleged militants were killed on Wednesday as Yemeni forces attacked areas said to be held by al-Qaeda affiliated groups in a new military offensive aided by U.S. officials and combat troops. The northeastern outskirts of Zinjibar, the...
With Washington's supervision, Afghanistan is secretly adopting a system of indefinite detention for thousands of prisoners previously held without charge by the U.S., human rights organizations have found. As part of the Obama administration's concessions to the...
Pursuant to the deal reached by Kabul and Washington for drawing down the war in Afghanistan, U.S. soldiers are now statutorily required to obtain a warrant before entering Afghan homes. The Obama administration, desperate to come to an agreement and extricate itself...
