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.
The central question in the Benghazi scandal is quite simple: what did President Barack Obama do? Other issues, such as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s failure to provide adequate security to U.S. diplomats, and the administration’s lie about an anti-Islam
The Bahraini government has approved a proposal by parliament “to compile a list of terror organizations and to enter Hezbollah onto it.” The move came on April 7 and is being called “unprecedented in the Arab world.” There is a
Iran on Tuesday warned against any “provocations” in the Gulf as a US-led international naval force began a massive minesweeping exercise. According to the Bahrain-based US Fifth Fleet, 35 ships, 18 unmanned underwater vehicles and more than 100 explosive ordinance
The heavy metal-loving governor of Indonesian capital Jakarta has surrendered a guitar that was a gift from US band Metallica to anti-corruption authorities, an official said Tuesday. A beaming Joko Widodo appeared on TV last week strumming the maroon bass
A bomb attack on Tuesday killed at least five people and wounded a Pakistani election candidate as he was campaigning in a market in the country’s northwest, police said. The attack in the town of Hangu, a flashpoint for violence
Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi will appoint nine new ministers in a cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday, state media reported, in a shake-up that falls short of opposition demands. At least two of the new ministers are affiliated with Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood
Iran began registering candidates Tuesday for a June 14 presidential vote, the first in the Islamic republic since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election sparked months of violent street protests in 2009. The interior ministry opened the five-day registration process at 8:00
Reports indicate Iran has “launched a public campaign” for fighters to come alongside “Hezbollah men” and Assad’s forces in Syria. The majority of the recruiting effort is coming from “a site belonging to supporters of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khomeini.”
A US Air Force officer in charge of preventing sexual attacks has been arrested for assaulting a woman, police said Monday, in the latest setback for a force struggling to stem a pervasive rape problem. Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Krusinski, head
By DONNA CASSATAAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is calling for the United States to provide weapons to vetted Syrian opposition groups battling President Bashar Assad’s forces in the 2-year-old civil war. Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of
Monday, the Pentagon released a report detailing China’s vast use of technological espionage to expand its military power. The Pentagon report said China uses foreign investments, commercial joint ventures, academic exchanges, and industrial and technological espionage to strengthen its weapons
As the House Oversight Committee prepares to question Benghazi witnesses on Wednesday, we need to remember that the accounts of personnel on the ground have long contradicted the account the CIA adopted just weeks after the attacks took the lives of
In a desperate attempt to direct Turkish, Egyptian, and broader Sunni ire against his regime into hatred for Israel, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has now said that he will give the go-ahead for Palestinian operations against Israel in the Golan
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) charged today that the Obama administration’s “quiet diplomacy” on behalf of jailed Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi is “not working” and that more aggressive measures should be taken. “The U.S. Ambassador should be recalled and legislation should
(AP) China hosting both Palestinian, Israeli leadersBEIJING China is hosting both the Palestinian and Israeli leaders this week in a sign of its desire for a larger role in the Middle East. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was welcomed by his
Ahead of Wednesday’s long-awaited hearings at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about the Benghazi terror attack of Sep. 11, 2012, Democrats have a clear agenda: protect Hillary Clinton at all costs. Clinton, the former Secretary of State and
An almost 20-year-old case of a Beijing student left paralysed after allegedly being poisoned was back in the spotlight in Chinese state media Monday after a petition was posted on the White House website. Zhu Ling suffered severe brain damage
A major neo-Nazi murder trial opened Monday in Germany in a case that has embarrassed authorities and shed a spotlight on the country’s murky far-right scene. Under a heavy police presence, Beate Zschaepe, 38, entered the court in the southern
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A senior Israeli official accused Google on Monday of setting back Middle East peace hopes by putting the name “Palestine” under the banner of its search page for the Palestinian territories. (www.google.ps) Palestinians hailed Google’s move as
China on Monday implicitly criticised Israel’s air strikes in Syria as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas both visited the country to meet top leaders. The raids on military sites outside Damascus a day earlier raised fears
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com World View will be suspended until Thursday or Friday Orthodox Christians celebrate Holy Fire ‘miracle’ on Easter Major defense contractor QinetiQ hacked for years by China Israeli air strike on Damascus escalates Syria crisis
On May 5, Syria claimed Israel’s reported military strike on a Damascus research facility is a “declaration of war,” and that retaliation will be necessary. Moreover, Iranian Revolutionary Guard General Masoud Jazayeri says that Iran will retaliate through Syria. The Iranian regime
In an appearance on Face the Nation this morning, Rep. Darrell Issa revealed several new pieces of information about the Obama administration’s controversial description of the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, casting doubt that the White House mischaracterized its
Greg Hicks, former deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, told congressional investigators that the State Department’s internal review of the Benghazi attack “let people off the hook.” Hicks also contradicted the administration’s talking points that were
When Russian counterterrorism agents interrogated Islamic insurgent William Plotnikov in 2011, he named Boston Marathon Bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev “a fellow extremist,” according to Rep. William Keating (D-MA). This interrogation prompted “Russian authorities to ask the FBI to investigate Tsarnaev in
