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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Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA) grilled Defense Sec. Chuck Hagel on a Pentagon email warning Army officers to watch out for soldiers who do not support gay marriage or who disfavor Muslims, equating them with the Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazis.
97-year old retired Lt. Col. Richard Cole took the controls of a vintage B-25 bomber and flew it over the skies of Destin, FL, on April 16. It was part of the final reunion of WWII’s Doolittle Raiders. Cole is
As many of Israel’s critics portray it as collectively punishing the Palestinians, overlooked and unsaid is the greater frequency with which Muslims collectively punish the religious minorities living under their authority, often in atrocious ways. Consider Egypt alone. The most recent attacks
Four senior U.S. intelligence officials say there are “increasing suspicions” the Assad regime has used “small amounts of chemical weapons” during recent fighting. Their suspicions are shared by British officials who say that “witness accounts and preliminary testing” show that
On April 18, former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf fled the Islamabad High Court after his bail was revoked. Justice Shaukat Siddiqui revoked the bail and ordered the arrest of the former president, at which time Musharraf’s security detail helped him
(AP) – Italian lawmakers failed on Thursday to elect a new president of the nation during a first round of voting. President Giorgio Napolitano’s term ends next month, and choosing his successor is considered a step toward resolving a political
(AFP) – A US military court of appeals dismissed a lawsuit filed by journalists and a rights group seeking greater openness in the upcoming trial of WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning. The Center for Constitutional Rights filed the suit asking the
(AFP) – Two men were jailed for up to 16 years in Britain on Thursday for planning acts of terrorism including an al-Qaeda-inspired plot to send a remote-controlled toy car into an army reservist centre. Zahid Iqbal, 31, and Mohammed
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi special forces were hunting in a western province for the most senior member of Saddam Hussein’s inner circle who has been on the run since the 2003 invasion, security sources said on Thursday. Troops backed by
(AFP) – US Secretary of State John Kerry pledged Wednesday that nobody had lied about last year’s attack on a US mission in Libya that killed four Americans, and urged US lawmakers to move on. The former senator found the
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Split Venezuela election leads to seven protester deaths IMF: Loose U.S. monetary policy risks global financial stability China issues white paper describing its armed forces U.S. sends more troops to Jordan after threat from
Steven Emerson of the Investigative Project revealed on Hannity’s Wednesday evening cable show that an official at ICE told him the Saudi national first questioned by authorities about the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon on Monday is set to
By ZEINA KARAMAssociated PressBEIRUTSyria’s president accused the West on Wednesday of backing al-Qaida in his country’s civil war, warning it will pay a price “in the heart” of Europe and the United States as the terror network becomes emboldened. Bashar
Special Operations Speaks (SOS), a group of Special Forces veterans, sent a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) dated April 17, calling him to account on what they see as his lackadaisical approach to investigating the Benghazi terrorist attack on September
A group of soldiers running the Boston Marathon wearing 40 pound backpacks in honor of fallen comrades came to the aid of bomb victims after the explosions took place. Photographers captured images of the soldiers pulling back barricades and working
According to CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson, who has covered the Benghazi terror attack resulting in the death of four Americans including our Ambassador to Libya, new whistleblowers are speaking to Congressional investigators. For months, Republican members of Congress have
(AFP) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that international sanctions imposed over his country’s nuclear drive had caused “problems”, but insisted they had not stopped progress. Ahmadinejad spoke in Ghana as he wound up a three-nation tour of west
(AP) – Thousands of people are homeless and desperate for aid in southwestern Pakistan following a deadly earthquake centered in neighboring Iran that toppled scores of mud brick homes and killed at least 36 people, officials said Wednesday. The Pakistani
(AFP) – Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas is to visit Turkey at the weekend for talks with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a Palestinian official said on Wednesday. Abbas will also meet Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
(AP) – The Cairo appellate court has set May 11 for the resumption of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s retrial over the deaths of hundreds of protesters killed during the uprising that ousted him. Mubarak remains in custody on new
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev defended his government’s record in a combative speech to parliament on Wednesday after President Vladimir Putin signaled he may be losing patience with his long-time ally. There has been speculation for months
(AP) – Hundreds of women who received faulty breast implants gathered Wednesday in a makeshift courthouse in the south of France for the fraud trial of five executives accused of using cheap industrial silicone to fill tens of thousands of
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The president and chief executive of Japanese electronics giant Panasonic will have their salaries halved as part of a move to take the blame for the firm’s financial woes, the company said Wednesday. President Kazuhiro Tsuga and Chairman Fumio Ohtsubo
