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.
While Iran continues to espouse support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on the surface, there are serious undercurrents within the Iranian leadership which portend an about face on this position. With the recent news that Assad will not step down
Pope Benedict said in his New Year’s message on Tuesday he hoped 2013 would be a year of peace and that the world was under threat from unbridled capitalism, terrorism and criminality. The 85-year-old pope rang in the new year
An adviser to Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi predicts Israel will cease to exist by 2020. The adviser, Essam al-Erian — who also happens to be the head of the Muslim Brotherhood Freedom and Justice Party — says that by 2020
By FOSTER KLUG and SAM KIMAssociated PressSEOUL, South KoreaNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday called for improving the economy and living standards of his impoverished nation with the same urgency that scientists showed in successfully testing a long-range
Even as the United States makes overtures toward legitimizing terrorist group Hamas – failing to protest visits to the Gaza Strip from international leaders was the first step in that legitimization during the recent Gaza rocket war – Hamas’ Prime
The six Indian men arrested for the brutal gang rape turned murder of a young 23-year-old female student are now facing the death penalty. India erupted in protests over the way the government handled the attack and over how the
Egypt’s state prosecutor ordered on Tuesday an investigation into a claim that popular satirical show host Bassem Yousef insulted President Mohamed Morsi, a judicial source said. On his show Al-Barnameg (The Programme), Youssef, dubbed the Egyptian Jon Stewart, had poked
Last year, the Honywood Community Science School in Coggeshall, Essex, had a brilliant idea to help student learning: hand out free iPad2 tablets. So, at massive cost to the British taxpayer, they fulfilled their vision, giving iPad2s to 1,200 students.
Syrians woke up to air strikes near Damascus on New Year’s Day as Aleppo airport was closed after repeated rebel attacks, casting doubts on diplomatic drives to end the 21-month conflict. The violence came a day after activists reported finding
(AP) Gunmen kill 5 female teachers in PakistanBy RIAZ KHANAssociated PressPESHAWAR, PakistanGunmen in northwest Pakistan killed five female teachers and two aid workers on Tuesday in an ambush on a van carrying workers home from their jobs at a community
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The State Department made a “grievous mistake” in keeping the U.S. mission in Benghazi open despite inadequate security and increasingly alarming threat assessments in the weeks before a deadly attack by militants, a Senate committee said on
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Updating Global Conflict Risk Assessment for China threat The Most Dangerous Regions of the World Forecast for 2013: Financial crisis and China Threat Updating Global Conflict Risk Assessment for China threat Starting in 2004,
Ukrainian authorities have revealed at least 133 people have died in December due to sustained freezing temperatures that have dipped as low as -9 degrees Fahrenheit. More than 500 people have been hospitalized due to the cold in the past
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “has no intention of stepping down and it would be impossible to try to persuade him otherwise.” Although Russia previously believed that Assad might capitulate to Western demands and let go
Rumor has it that President Barack Obama may not have given up his plan to nominate former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) as Secretary of Defense after all, and that Hagel’s nomination may in fact be imminent. The fact that Hagel
Rebel forces in Syria report that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is now using chemical weapons on them. Moreover, intelligence operatives from the West have confirmed those reports as well. But there has yet to be a peep out of the
U.S. President Barack Obama’s step-grandmother, Sarah Onyango Obama, received emergency eye surgery from Israeli doctors in an Israeli-run hospital in Equatorial Guinea last week, the Times of Israel reports. Sarah Onyango Obama is the third wife of Hussein Onyango Obama, President
A new draft of a 75-page Army handbook for troops heading to Afghanistan says that American cultural insensitivity is to blame for the 63 attacks this year by Afghan soldiers against the U.S.-led coalition forces who are training them.
An improvised bomb exploded outside the headquarters of the public prosecutor in the Libyan city of Benghazi causing material damage but no fatalities, a security source said. The overnight blast marked the third attack on the site in 2012, he
Iranian forces have carried out what they called cyber warfare tactics for the first time as the Islamic republic’s naval units staged manoeuvres in the key Strait of Hormuz, media reports said on Monday. The navy “launched a cyber attack
As I wrote on Dec. 9, while Obama was taking a ‘wait and see’ approach to Syria insurgents, those affiliated with Al Qaeda flooded the ranks of the Syrian opposition. Even supporters of the Free Syrian Army describe these men as “bandits”
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Turkey’s Erdogan says that Assad’s regime in Syria is ending Iran and Turkey trade accusations, as relations deteriorate Greece makes plans for Syrian refugee camp on Corfu Venezuelans wonder if Chavez’s cancer surgery has
By MATTHEW LEEAssociated PressWASHINGTONSecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was admitted to a New York hospital Sunday after the discovery of a blood clot stemming from the concussion she sustained earlier this month. Clinton’s doctors discovered the clot Sunday while
(AP) Venezuela VP: Chavez suffers ‘new complications’CARACAS, VenezuelaHugo Chavez has suffered “new complications” following his cancer surgery in Cuba, his vice president said Sunday, describing the Venezuelan leader’s condition as delicate. Vice President Nicolas Maduro did not give details about
Senate Republicans seem eager to let fellow Senator John Kerry (D-MA) sail through the confirmation process and take office as Secretary of State (once current incumbent Hillary Clinton testifies about the Benghazi attack). The logic seems to be that “elections
