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.
Gregory Hicks, former deputy chief of mission in Libya, testified that U.S. special forces were told to “stand down” instead of carry out a relief mission to Benghazi once the terror attack was under way. Hicks said the special forces
On April 28, U.S. F-22s were scrambled and made visual confirmation of Russian bombers in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). The bombers did not enter U.S. airspace, although “the Alaska ADIZ is a formal national security zone used
Gregory Hicks was the Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) of the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli during the September 11, 2012 assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. On Wednesday, he told the House Government Oversight Committee that the State
Former U.N. Ambassador Tom Pickering and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen refused an invitation to testify at the Benghazi hearings on Wednesday about their Accountability Review Board (ARB) report on the attack. The panel
After the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blamed a YouTube video for the attack. However, No. 2 US Envoy to Libya Greg Hicks revealed his phone calls with Clinton
1. Two “stand-down” orders were given while the Benghazi attacks were in progress. 2. The “protest” about a YouTube video was a complete fabrication by the Obama administration. 3. Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s lawyer at the State Department, told witnesses not to
(AP) Rodman to Kim: ‘Do me a solid’ and free AmericanSEOUL, South KoreaFormer NBA star Dennis Rodman is tapping his friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to ask for the release of a Korean-American man sentenced to 15
Greg Hicks, the No. 2 United States Envoy to Libya, revealed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens was taken to a hospital under control of the Islamic group Ansar al-Sharia, the same group believed to be responsible for the attack on the US
Breitbart News will provide live updates and analysis of today’s hearings before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on the Benghazi terror attack of September 11, 2012. Todays testimony will feature whistleblowers who are expected to provide information supporting
On May 7, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel ordered searches of troop workplaces–including military offices–to root out materials deemed “degrading” toward women. These include “photos, calendars, magazines, screen-savers, and computer files,” among other things. The scouring of military offices has
Following a new report showing a rise in sexual assaults within the military, President Obama said he had “no tolerance” for such behavior and vowed to change the sex culture in the Pentagon. The report said 6.1% of service female
Republicans on the House Oversight Committee say there will be “explosive” revelations that will come forth during the Committee’s hearing on Wednesday when three State Department witnesses reveal what they knew the night the U.S. consulate and CIA annex in
Al-Qaeda-linked suspects on Wednesday shot dead three air force generals from the strategic Al-Anad air base in the southern province of Lahij, the army said. The ministry said that the officers were met “by a barrage of gunfire from two
France’s health ministry on Wednesday reported the country’s first case of a SARS-like virus that has killed 18 people so far, mostly in Saudi Arabia. An unidentified person who came back to France from a trip to the United Arab
(AP) Israel police detain top Palestinian Muslim clericBy JOSEF FEDERMANAssociated PressJERUSALEMIsraeli police detained on Wednesday the top Muslim cleric in the Holy Land following disturbances at a disputed holy site in Jerusalem, in a rare crackdown on a leading religious
The Pentagon is slowly acknowledging that China is not our friend. In its annual report on China, the Defense Department has finally admitted that Beijing’s government and military have been making computer-based attacks on the U.S. government in order to
In a rare statement about the Obama administration, former Vice President Dick Cheney criticized the administration’s handling of the 9/11 terror attack on our consulate in Benghazi, stating it was a “failure of leadership.” He went on to say that
On Tuesday, famed physicist Stephen Hawking withdrew from a conference hosted by Israeli president Shimon Peres in solidarity with an academic boycott against the Jewish state. Hawking, 71, had accepted an invitation to the Facing Tomorrow conference in June in
On CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper, Pat Smith, mother of slain State Department information officer Sean Smith, blamed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for failing to protect her son and other civilians in Benghazi, Libya, during the September
As the congressional investigation into the terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, continues to heat up, State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell told reporters on Monday that the administration is allowing survivors of the attack and other Department
Some members of Congress are asking tough questions about why the Pentagon is using a Chinese commercial satellite for U.S. Africa Command communications. The controversial decision, says Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), chairman of the panel that oversees space programs, “exposes
American Middle East analysts often claim that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is a moderate organization, nothing like the more radical Salafis. If true, what do we make of the fact that the most intolerant, anti-American, hate-filled Salafis and jihadis also happen to be
With the Obama administration currently doing little to free Dr. Shakil Afridi, the source who helped American forces find and target Osama Bin Laden, it is obvious that their concerns lie elsewhere. Past administrations have achieved freedom for American-allied political
On the outskirts of a sleepy West Virginia town lives 92-year-old Frederick Mayer. His current life is fairly peaceful–he still chops wood nearly every day and volunteers with Meals on Wheels. But this ninety-something’s life hasn’t always been so simple.
A source with intimate information about the events that happened on the ground in Benghazi the night the U.S. Consulate and the CIA annex was attacked by terrorists told Breitbart News that, ultimately, only the President of the United States,
