In his weekly address, President Obama promised to withdraw U.S. troops by the end of 2014 and to start wasting money here at home, instead of over in Afghanistan. "After more than a decade of war," he said," it is time to focus on nation building here at home." He...
Moscow's threat to launch preemptive strikes in response to a U.S.-led NATO missile defense system in Eastern Europe was met with dismissive repudiation by the alliance's top military chief on Friday. Russia’s top military officer threatened to carry out a preemptive...
An activist movement in Syria is calling for an end to the armed conflict, particularly calling for opposition forces to lay down their arms recommit to peaceful protesting. The conflict in Syria began with mostly peaceful protests, but were met with attacks by the...
Al-Qaeda's relationship with the government of Iran was openly hostile as revealed by recently declassified documents, contrary to hysterical and baseless American claims of an Iran-Qaeda connection. In an attempt to incriminate the Iranian regime and rally support...
The State Department has bungled and mismanaged the situation of Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng seeking asylum in the U.S., now having apparently abandoned him for a worse fate than if they never got involved. After escaping from captivity of Chinese authorities who...
The Pentagon Tuesday released a report on the progress of the war in Afghanistan that acknowledged a “resilient” Taliban and pointed to “long-term and acute challenges" as the military prepares for a considerable drawdown of forces in 2014. Like all such Pentagon...
Osama bin Laden often disapproved of what so-called "affiliate" organizations were doing and in fact had very little, if any, control over their actions, according to declassified documents obtained by the U.S. during the raid on his residence a year ago. Bin Laden...
Russia's top military officer has threatened to carry out a pre-emptive strike if Washington goes ahead with its plan to build a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe. The Obama administration has been pushing for a deal to build missile defense facilities in...
The deal Washington and Kabul recently signed will allow Washington to continue launch drone attacks into Pakistan beyond 2014, U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker indicated Wednesday. In response to a question about drones strikes past the so-called withdrawal date in 2014,...
Unidentified men armed with guns and batons and suspected of being hired by the military rulers attacked peaceful protesters in Egypt on Wednesday, killing 11 and wounding several more. The protesters were demonstrating in Cairo against the ongoing military rule in...
