The Philippines will grant Washington greater military access in exchange for more military equipment, training and funding, as part of the Obama administration's effort to expand and strengthen the empire in Asia to counter a rising China. Washington is offering the...
After viewing the results of a Pentagon war simulation and securing more military funding from the U.S., Israel has decided to put off any plans for a unilateral strike on Iran until at least next year, according to reports. The so-called war game was classified but...
The Obama administration has dramatically escalated its secret drone war in Yemen, already exploiting Yemen's fragile new client state. There have been 26 reported incidents of drone strikes in Yemen since May, but the pace appears to be accelerating with nine attacks...
Senator John McCain introduced a new resolution on Syria Wednesday that calls for arming the Syrian rebels to fight the regime of Bashar al-Assad and establishing safe zones inside Syria. The non-binding resolution stops short of calling for U.S. military intervention...
Along with a virtual consensus within the U.S. military and intelligence community, international heads of state have begun expressing their opposition to a U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran. Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem Al-Thani has said his country,...
The Afghan authorities have arrested 18 people, some Afghan National Army soldiers, in Kabul after thwarting an attempted mass suicide attack, intelligence officials told the BBC. Up to 11 suicide jackets have been seized inside the Afghan Ministry of Defense,...
The U.S. Senate will soon consider yet another package of harsh economic sanctions on Iran as punishment for a nuclear weapons program they don't have, Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Tuesday. Iran is already facing an unprecedented set of U.S.-led...
West African leaders neighboring Mali warned on Tuesday they would use "all options" to reverse the military coup that took place there last week, adding to the spiral of chaotic unintended consequences from the U.S.-led NATO war in Libya. A group of West African...
When the pre-trial hearings for Guantanamo detainee Abd al Rahim al Nashiri reconvene next month, they are expected to be closed to the public in order to keep secret the brutal torture he suffered at the hands of the CIA. Nashiri is accused of planning the 2000...
The United States said on Monday it will suspend up to $70 million in aid to Mali after last week's coup, but that aid for food and humanitarian assistance would continue. "We have now taken a decision to suspend our assistance to the government of Mali pending a...
