The big push in Congress to open up domestic airspace in the U.S. to unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, is developing with hardly any lobbying opposition, despite potentially dire consequences for civil liberties. Congress quietly authorized the domestic use of...
A large explosion in the Syrian city of Hama on Wednesday killed scores of people and destroyed several shaky buildings, further illustrating the foundering of the ceasefire. Anti-regime activists claimed the explosion was a military rocket attack that killed up to 70...
President Obama has approved a request from the CIA to begin launching targeted assassinations through drone strikes even when the identity of the victims is unknown. CIA Director David Petraeus, had requested permission to employ the tactic used in Pakistan for years...
Foreign oil companies are vying for a piece in Libyan oil as the new government begins to take shape according to the industry's interests which recognize Libya as possessing Africa's largest crude oil reserves. Corporations from around the world displayed their...
Report: NATO’s Claims of ‘Afghan-Led’ Missions Mostly Nonsense | US insists label ‘appropriate’ even if Afghan troops not doing anything
The military judge presiding over the trial of Bradley Manning on Wednesday refused to dismiss all charges against the alleged whistleblower. Private Bradley Manning, detained for over a year for allegedly leaking classified government documents to the anti-secrecy...
Is Azerbaijan Israel’s Gateway to Iran? | Israeli diplomat: Nation key to ‘regional aspirations’
France: UN Should Prepare to Attack Syria | French FM vows to push for war at UN Security Council
FBI Chief in Yemen, Pledges Help Crushing Rebels | Govt. says US drone killed local al-Qaeda leader
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, while on a trip to Colombia, claimed that Iranian attempts to expand its influence in South America amounted to "expanding terrorism." "We always have a concern about in particular the [Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps] and [their]...
