Israeli officials on Monday complained that U.S. officials speaking publicly about their reluctance to start a war with Iran "served Iran's interests." Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and other senior officials lambasted U.S. national...
Libyans in Misrata voted in new elections on Monday after four months of corruption and criminality from the self-appointed city council that came to power just after the killing of former leader Muammar Gadhafi. Frustrated Misrata residents had staged sit-ins outside...
Officials in the International Atomic Energy Agency are meeting in Iran this week for the second round of talks in a month on the status of Iran's nuclear enrichment program, a meeting that could potentially stymie efforts in the West to preemptively strike Iran....
Instead of handing over the main detention center in Afghanistan to Kabul's control, the U.S. is expanding the facility and keeping it under Washington's control. U.S. officials have promised for years to give jurisdiction for various U.S.-run prisons to the Afghan...
The Taliban have contradicted a claim Thursday by Afghan President Hamid Karzai that it was taking part in secret negotiations with the Afghan government. While the Taliban have been engaged in talks with U.S. officials, they rejected talking with Karzai's government,...
Israeli officials continued to blame Iran for a series of botched bombings in Thailand's capital, Bangkok, despite denials from Iran of any involvement. Three individuals carrying Iranian passports in Bangkok accidentally blew the roof off of their rented home and...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu kept up his hawkish, pro-war rhetoric on Thursday, but other top Israeli officials issued more careful statements regarding Iran's nuclear program, indicating a rift in Israel's senior leadership. Netanyahu had previously...
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday that Iran is enriching uranium in a peaceful nuclear program but that Tehran has not decided to develop an atomic bomb. Top U.S. military and intelligence officials gave separate testimonies in congressional hearings on...
Iran is very unlikely to intentionally provoke a conflict with the West and almost certainly would not initiate a first strike on the U.S. or its allies, including Israel, according to the top U.S. military intelligence official. Lieutenant General Ronald Burgess,...
Two U.S. drones strikes in north-west Pakistan have killed up 21 people on Thursday and wounded several others, according to Pakistani officials. Pakistani officials said that the first attack launched two missiles and killed at least five "militants," and wounded...
