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.
(AP) Suicide car bomber kills 11 soldiers in EgyptBy HAMZA HENDAWIAssociated PressCAIROA suicide car bomb hit a bus convoy of off-duty Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday, killing 11 and wounding 37, in the latest of a stepped-up
(AP) Iran: Easing oil, banking sanctions part of talksGENEVAA senior Iranian envoy says nuclear talks have included possible ways to reduce sanctions on oil sales and banking in exchange for curbs in Tehran’s atomic program. The remarks by negotiator Abbas
By ROBERT BURNSAP National Security WriterWASHINGTONTrouble inside the Air Force’s nuclear missile force runs deeper and wider than officials have let on. An unpublished study for the Air Force, obtained by The Associated Press, cites “burnout” among launch officers with
A daylong Georgetown University conference on Egypt’s political state in the wake of July’s ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi was to include a member of Egypt’s Nazi Party. Hosted and organized by the school’s Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Center for
A federal judge in San Diego sentenced three Somali immigrants for providing financial and logistical support to the Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab. Basaaly Saeed Moalin, a cab driver, Mohamed Mohamed Mohamud, an imam at a local mosque patronized by the Somali immigrant community,
Brandeis University suspended a 25-year-old cooperative relationship with the West Bank-based Al-Quds University this week, after the Palestinian university president’s “unacceptable and inflammatory” response to a student demonstration which invoked Nazi imagery. Brandeis President Frederick Lawrence demanded that his counterpart at Al-Quds,
Israel’s foreign minister said Wednesday that it was time for his country to look beyond the U.S. as its principal ally, the Jerusalem Post reports. Foreign minister Avigdor Liberman said that the U.S. was too distracted with other problems. However, with talks resuming
Add Susan Rice to the list of top Obama Administration officials who blame Israel for the lack of peace in the Middle East. At the Middle East Institute last week, Rice proclaimed, “We have seen increased tensions on the ground. Some of
(AP) Too fat to fly: Stranded Frenchman’s ordeal endingBy DANICA KIRKAAssociated PressLONDONHe’s been turned down by planes, trains and even a cruise ship in his quest to return home — and his family says it’s because of he has been
Following the 2009 discovery of “two Al Qaeda-Iraq terrorists living in Bowling Green, KY,” FBI agents investigated and now believe “several dozen suspected terrorist bomb makers” may have been allowed in the U.S. as “war refugees.” According to ABC News,
Newly gathered classified testimony on Benghazi shows claims that the attack was the result of a spontaneous demonstration are “indefensible.” According to Fox News, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) said five CIA employees testified that “five mortars rained down on CIA
President Barack Obama convinced a bipartisan group of Senators on Tuesday to delay enacting new sanctions until after the Thanksgiving recess. The Obama administration had sought the delay, it claimed, in order to show good faith to the Iranian regime
From the Daily Mail: The crew of the USS Dewey have honored the dying wish of a Pearl Harbor survivor by allowing him on board the latest version of the destroyer he served on in the Second World War. Electrician’s
(AP) Iran’s leader backs nuke talks, with conditionsBy GEORGE JAHN and JOHN HEILPRINAssociated PressGENEVAAhead of a new round of Iran nuclear talks, the country’s supreme leader voiced support on Wednesday for the negotiations, but he insisted there are limits to
(AP) Yemen arrests suspected female al-Qaida militantsBy AHMED AL-HAJAssociated PressSANAA, YemenSecurity officials in Yemen say they’ve arrested women suspected of being al-Qaida militants after a security force operation in the country’s south that left four soldiers dead. The officials say
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Lebanon bombing sharply escalates sectarian Mideast conflict Japan’s anti-China diplomacy given boost by Typhoon Haiyan Lebanon bombing sharply escalates sectarian Mideast conflict Bomb site outside of Iranian embassy in Lebanon on Tuesday (AFP) Twin
U.S. officials and their Afghan counterparts have reached a tentative security agreement which includes a letter, penned by President Obama, admitting ‘mistakes’ during the ‘War on Terror.’ Fox News quoted Reuters on November 19th as saying “an Afghan spokesman said…Obama agreed
(AP) US ambassador to China to step down early in 2014By LOUISE WATTAssociated PressBEIJINGU.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke, who oversaw the handling of potential crises over the flight to U.S. diplomatic missions by a persecuted legal activist and high-profile
A high-ranking official in the socialist state-owned and operated Venezuelan State Economic Development Bank has pleaded guilty in New York City for accepting bribes from members of a U.S.-based broker-dealer firm in exchange for directing the state-owned bank’s security-trading business
Hundreds of pages of detailed information on U.S. government programs to help Cuban dissident leaders may have fallen into the hands of the Cuban regime due to a failure to encrypt documents sent to Havana, a mistake one official called
The international community and Iran meet again in Geneva this week for a fateful round of talks. The discussions are meant to ensure that Iran ceases activities designed to produce the first Shi’ite nuclear bomb–the first of many bombs, if
Cornered by a straightforward question he did not want to answer, the head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Los Angeles office chose instead to misrepresent his organization’s actions and feign outrage that the question itself was bigoted. “Will
Monday, “The Lead with Jake Tapper” highlighted the story of former Army Captain Brian Larson, an Iraq war veteran desperately trying to get the Iraqi interpreter, who was a crucial part of his team during the war, out of that
On Tuesday, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which represents the world’s most advanced economies, advised the U.S. to eliminate the debt ceiling, warning that repeated crises over the debt limit threatened the global economy. Instead, the OECD suggests,
(AP) Toronto council reins in scandal-plagued mayorBy DAVID CRARY and ROB GILLIESAssociated PressTORONTOAfter a tempestuous debate, Toronto’s City Council has stripped Mayor Rob Ford of the last of his substantive powers because of multiple scandals, but further turmoil seems inevitable.The
