A U.S. drone attack fired missiles at a house in Pakistan's northwest tribal region near the Afghan border Wednesday, killing eight people, according to Pakistani intelligence officials. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity, barred from speaking about foreign...
In April 2003, days after the fall of Baghdad, British troops in a pair of RAF CH47 Chinook helicopters were on a mission to transport Iraqi detainees to a prison camp under the cover of darkness. Before the end of the night, one detainee had died on board one of the...
Officials: CIA to Stay in Iraq, Afghanistan for Years After Wars | Baghdad-based CIA spying on Maliki government
Members of the State Department-designated terrorist group known as the Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK) have been welcomed into a former U.S. military base in Iraq thanks to an agreement Washington pushed through with Baghdad. An agreement pushed by the U.S. with the Iraqi...
Embassies in Israel Scramble to Prepare for War | Mass evacuations will be struggle if ‘surprise’ attack happens
The Pentagon and U.S. Central Command have begun a preliminary review of U.S. military options against the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad, as violence throughout the country continues to escalate. The most significant violence is reported to have taken...
Election Season: Yemen’s Only Candidate Starts Campaigning | US-backed general asks for help in ‘noble task’ of running unopposed
Russia Pushes Syria as Violence Continues in Homs | Syrian National Council open to Russia talks
The role of U.S. special operations forces in Afghanistan may expand considerably as part of the Obama administration's plan to withdraw troops in the next two years, according to a U.S. admiral. Adm. Bill McRaven, the special operations commander who led the raid...
Afghan children are being taught with U.S.-funded textbooks explicitly written to exclude four decades of war in an almost self-satirizing attempt to "bring people together." "There is no mention of the Soviet war, the mujaheddin, the Taliban or the U.S. military...
