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.
JERUSALEM, Sept. 16 (UPI) — Palestinians will be permitted to farm land at a former West Bank settlement evacuated in Israel’s 2005 disengagement, officials said. A ruling by Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein refers to the settlement of Homesh, one of
TEHRAN, Sept. 16 (UPI) — An overhaul to one of Iran’s largest natural gas processing facilities will help boost production exponentially, a director said Monday. Hosain Norozi, managing director of the Parsian gas processing plant, said maintenance and construction at
By NAHAL TOOSIAssociated PressKABUL, AfghanistanAfghanistan’s presidential race kicked off Monday as election authorities began accepting the nominations of would-be candidates, the start of a wide-open race whose winner will oversee the final phases of the withdrawal of U.S.-led troops amid
Troops on Monday stormed a central Egyptian town held for over a month by hardline supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi who had launched a campaign against Christian residents, officials said. Soldiers and police entered the town of Delga
By MIRWAIS KHANAssociated PressKANDAHAR, AfghanistanA top policewoman in southern Afghanistan died early Monday after being shot by unknown attackers, months after her predecessor was also slain. Her death, one of the latest in a string of attacks on prominent Afghan
Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the agreement between the United States and Russia to secure Syria’s chemical weapons was a sign of American weakness. They also said that, with the agreement, Russian President Vladimir Putin and
On CBS’s Face the Nation, Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) said Americans needed to support the Syrian rebels even though mistakes will be made that may lead to arms falling in the hands of the wrong groups. “There’s gonna be mistakes,” Corker said.
On CBS’s Face the Nation, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright claimed that no regime in Syria can be worse than Bashar al-Assad’s. “It’s very hard for me to believe that there could be something worse, frankly,” she said. “I
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (UPI) — The Air Force has placed a same-sex couple at the same base in Utah after repeatedly denying their previous requests, a spokesman confirmed. The approval marks the first time the Air Force approved a joint
In foreign policy as in much else, President Barack Obama has relied on words rather than actions. So it is difficult to take seriously his threat, expressed in an interview Friday with ABC News that aired Sunday on This Week,
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Russian President Vladimir Putin could not be trusted, but the United States had to work with him on Syria. On CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday, host Bob Schieffer asked Albright, who served as Secretary
The new Vatican Secretary of State has affirmed that priestly celibacy is a tradition, not church dogma, and is a matter that can be open for discussion. According to John Allen, Jr., writing at National Catholic Reporter, Archbishop Pietro Parolin’s
While President Barack Obama and other U.S. officials have repeatedly said the U.S. can accomplish its goals in Syria without “boots on the ground,” the Department of Defense appears hesitant to make that same claim. According to a September 14
On Sunday, General Salim Idriss, who heads the Free Syrian Army opposition to the Assad regime, said that Syria has been moving weapons of mass destruction out of the country into Lebanon and Iraq. The Iraqi government said that such
On Sunday, Syrian National Reconciliation Minister Ali Haider declared “victory,” expressing the regime’s thanks to the Russian government, according to Russia’s RIA Novosti. “We welcome these agreements,” Haider said. “On the one hand they will help Syrians come out of
Despite his past disdain for Russian quasi-dictator Vladimir Putin, President Obama now says he trusts the Russian president when it comes to negotiating a deal with Syria. “Mr. Putin and I have strong disagreements on a whole range of issues,”
President Obama appeared on ABC’s This Week to defend his administration’s incoherent Syrian policy, stating that his efforts have achieved their desired results, even if those results were achieved in non-stylish fashion. “I think that folks here in Washington like
On Sunday, President Obama joined ABC’s This Week to discuss the threat of Iranian nuclear development, and emphasized that he had not taken force off the table: “I think what the Iranians understand is that the nuclear issue is a
On Sept. 12, religious-liberty leaders met with Pentagon officials to discuss the rapidly-escalating incidents of religious-liberty violations in the military under the Obama administration. On Apr. 28, Breitbart News broke the story of Pentagon brass meeting with anti-Christian activist Mikey
Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn will be named an economic advisor to the Serbian government. He is still facing pimping charges in France and possibly 10 years in prison. In 2011, Strauss-Kahn resigned after a New York City
Debt-wracked Greece is bracing for a fresh series of strikes this week against a redeployment scheme affecting thousands of civil servants, as its creditors arrive to examine reforms carried out by Athens in exchange for new loans. Greece has agreed
Japan is to start the process of switching off its last working nuclear reactor Sunday for a scheduled inspection with no restart in sight due to public hostility towards atomic power. The move will leave the world’s third largest economy
(AFP)- A US-Russian plan to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons gained China’s support Sunday, easing its route towards the UN Security Council and hiking pressure on Damascus to act within days. President Barack Obama warned the United States, which has threatened
(AP) Nearly 100 Philippine rebels killed or capturedBy BULLIT MARQUEZAssociated PressZAMBOANGA, PhilippinesNearly 100 Muslim guerrillas who have held scores of people hostage for a week in a southern Philippine city have been killed or captured in an offensive to retake
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