The Obama administration pressured Air Force General William Shelton to change his testimony to lawmakers on Capitol Hill to make it more favorable to a company owned by a large Democratic donor. The Pentagon has been resisting a new wireless project by a satellite...
Libya Rebels Dumping Hundreds of Bodies in ‘Pro-Gadhafi’ Cemetery | Makeshift prisons fill up with dissidents
Yemeni Troops Kill 26 in Attacks on Sanaa Protesters | Troops use anti-aircraft guns to attack demonstrators
Since 9/11, peaceful activists with dissident views have increasingly been swept up into terrorist watch lists and are surveilled by the federal government and law enforcement agencies. Such developments not only raise civil liberties issues, but also raise questions...
NATO airstrikes in the Libyan town of Sirte struck a residential building and a home and killed 354 people, according to a spokesman for ousted leader Muammar Gadhafi. Pro-Gadhafi loyalists have been battling invading rebel forces on the streets of Sirte, Gadhafi's...
Documents retrieved from Libya are adding to the evidence of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's intricate links with ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi. A correspondence was kept up between the two, in which Blair referred to Gadhafi as "The Leader" and Blair was...
The United States is working diligently to pressure the other members of the United Nations Security Council to vote against next week's Palestinian bid for statehood, hoping to avoid embarrassment on the international stage by having to invoke its veto power. The...
The Bush administration buddied up with the dictatorship in Uzbekistan, which borders Afghanistan to the north, in order to place military bases there and provide supply routes to troops in Afghanistan. The fact that the leader of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, is a...
President Obama has repeatedly said his top counterterrorism goal is to prevent terrorists from acquiring the building blocks to make nuclear or “dirty” bombs. He has pledged to “secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world within four years.” But there are...
The U.S. ambassador to Islamabad said Saturday that the United States believes the Haqqani insurgent network is tied to the Pakistani government, a charge that could further raise tensions between Washington and Islamabad. US officials earlier blamed the Haqqani...
