Iran State TV station FARS announced Saturday morning that four American dual-nationality prisoners were released from Iranian custody in a “prisoner swap” with the United States.
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In a rebuff to the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), led by Saudi Arabia, Yemen’s president Ali Abdullah Saleh has refused to sign a peace agreement that the GCC had brokered. Ali Abdullah Saleh After “Arab uprisings” began in January,
Daniel Breimert, well-armed chaplain Swedish soldiers are deployed in Afghanistan and one Swedish chaplain got in a bit of trouble recently when he wrote a newspaper column describing how he manned the machine gun on an armored personnel carrier. Daniel
A top Iranian military officer on Saturday denounced what he called an “Arab dictatorial front” and claimed that the “Persian Gulf has belonged to Iran for ever”, media reports said. “The Arab dictatorial regimes in the Persian Gulf are unable
The hub of Islamic supremacism in the US–Dearborn’s Islamic Center of America…. …To which no US citizen should submit On Friday, (4/29/11) a Muslim mob [3] of 50, disturbingly reminiscent of their co-religionists across a vast swath of official Islamdom,
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Muammar Gaddafi’s youngest son, Saif al-Arab, reportedly killed by Nato strike Saif al-Arab Gaddafi A Libyan government spokesman said that a Nato air strike killed Muammar Gaddafi’s youngest son, Saif al-Arab Gaddafi, and three
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A recent J.P. Morgan Chase commercial had a familiar tune playing in the background. It was Cat Steven’s “The Wind”. Why would this be of interest? For those of you not familiar with him, Cat Stevens converted to Islam many
Major reforms are needed to ensure that terrorists don’t get visas to enter the United States, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee agree. Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) say
Prime Minister Netanyahu is scheduled to address the U.S. Congress next month and deliver what has been billed as a major Mideast peace policy speech. It’s widely assumed that Netanyahu will bring new offerings to the PLO as a way
Syrian forces open fire on protesters. Warning: graphic footage. [youtube lpUt7avEqTw nolink] Massive anti-regime protests yesterday. [youtube dz5q2EgUtuk nolink]
From Businessweek: “The first yuan-denominated shares to trade outside of mainland China made their debut in Hong Kong Friday in a landmark initial public offering as Beijing seeks to broaden the use of its currency. Units in Hui Xian Real
Tunisia’s interim government issued a sharp rebuke to the Libyan regime of Muammar Gaddafi on Friday, after Gaddafi’s forces crossed the border into Tunisia in pursuit of Libyan rebels, according to the AP. In Dehiba, people gather around overturned car
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s response to the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority’s peace deal with Hamas would be funny if it weren’t tragic. Immediately after the news broke of the deal Netanyahu announced, “The PA must choose either peace with Israel or
From The Moscow Times: Amid growing anxiety over whose name will appear on the 2012 presidential ballot, lawmakers and pundits were quick to welcome the news that one president would certainly stand for re-election next year — Barack Obama. The
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. U.S. slaps sanctions on three Syrian officials The United States slapped sanctions on Syria’s intelligence agency and two relatives of President Bashar al-Assad on Friday. The sanctions include asset freezes and bans on U.S.
“I’m not a Neo-Conservative. I’m a Reaganite!” Americans place a high value on freedom and human dignity. That is a characteristic unique to our history and carved in our founding documents. It is too rare, these days, to have leaders
India is a rising power that is looking to upgrade its fighter aircraft. It’s a huge contract: 126 fighter jets for $10 billion. India for decades has relied on first Soviet and now Russian weapons systems. No longer. They recently
Wednesday’s announcement of a Fatah-Hamas reconciliation, and plans for a unity government, has thrown international Mideast politics into disarray — or perhaps I should say “further disarray,” because it’s been in disarray for a long time. (See “28-Apr-11 News —
Beautiful, downtown Kandahar. Hey, it works, says Jim Lacey, so let’s go. — Jim Lacey is a professor of strategic studies at the Marine Corps War College. Good. Judging by his recent piece at NRO, he has common sense, the
Former President Jimmy Carter was just in Pyongyang, North Korea and blames the United States largely for the situation in the country. The United States and South Korea have chosen “to deliberately withhold food aid to the North Korean people
As the Middle East changes on a daily basis it’s hard to observe how events are impacting surrounding countries. But it seems the events are boosting Iran both in terms of its regional impact as well as its race to
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. A terrorist explosion in Marrakesh, Morocco, kills 14 people Marrakesh, Morocco, bombing An explosion, the suspected work of a suicide bomber, took the lives of 14 people in a popular cafe in a cultural
