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.
Yesterday, President Obama asked Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to back off his proposed plan to unilaterally declare Palestinian statehood. According to the White House: In his discussion with President Abbas, President Obama reaffirmed his commitment to Middle East peace
So, how long does it take to get military assets stationed mere hours away from a firefight to a firefight? Apparently, it takes some 22 hours. When former Navy SEALs called for backup at the consulate in Benghazi on September
(AP) BERLINA draft document from Greece’s international creditors proposes granting the country two more years to meet its ambitious debt reduction targets. The memorandum of understanding, obtained by The Associated Press in Berlin on Monday, says the extension “will mitigate the
Iran stressed on Monday that any decision to hold direct talks with the United States on Tehran’s disputed nuclear programme would have to be taken by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The two arch-foes have previously held indirect discussions within
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s tomb was screened from public view on Monday in what a Palestinian official said was preparation for forensic examination of his body. AFP journalists saw the iconic leader’s mausoleum, at the entrance to presidential headquarters in
Spain’s AEB banking association on Monday announced it would freeze for two years the eviction of people from foreclosed homes. The association decided last Thursday “to freeze evictions during the next two years due to extreme necessity.” The announcement came
By ELENA BECATOROSAssociated PressATHENS, GreeceThe attack came seemingly out of nowhere. As the 28-year-old Bangladeshi man dug around trash bins one recent afternoon for scrap metal, two women and a man set upon him with a knife. He screamed as
The European Union executive on Monday offered to “stop the clock” on its controversial carbon tax on air travel by suspending the measure for a year on flights to and from non-European nations. The EU’s climate commisioner Connie Hedegaard said
Gaza militants on Monday fired nine rockets at southern Israel, one of which exploded next to a house, police said, shattering an overnight calm even as Cairo sought to broker an end to 24 hours of bloodshed. Police spokesman Micky
(AP) JERUSALEMThe Israeli military says it has fired into Syria for a second straight day in response to errant mortar fire that landed in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. There were no reports of injuries on either side of the frontier Monday.
By CHRISTINA HOAGAssociated PressLOS ANGELESFrom sea to shining sea, the nation paid tribute to its members of the armed services Sunday, both with somber traditions such as a Virginia wreath-laying ceremony attended by President Barack Obama to honor those who
(AP) Report: Iran VP threatens ‘grasping’ ObamaTEHRAN, IranA semi-official Iranian news agency reports that the Islamic Republic’s vice president has said Tehran will break the `grasping hands’ of newly re-elected President Barack Obama. Mohammad Reza Rahimi also says Iran will
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Sunni / Shia violence escalates in Sidon in southern Lebanon Netanyahu: Israel is considering a new ground invasion of Gaza Israel fires a guided missile into Syria as a warning Palestinian leader Abbas tells
(AP) Feinstein: FBI should have told us about PetraeusWASHINGTON The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee says she wants to know why the FBI didn’t tell her sooner that agents were investigating an extramarital affair by CIA Director David Petraeus.
In a letter responding to Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) inquiries and calls for a Senate Investigation into Benghazi, Sec. of Defense Leon Panetta claims the DOD did everything they could when the consulate came under attack. According to Panetta: “[We]
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) fired a missile at a Syrian post early this morning in response to a Syrian 120mm mortar shell landing in the eastern Golan Heights. No injuries were reported on the Israeli side, but no information
A NATO-led soldier fighting insurgents in Afghanistan was shot dead on Saturday by a man in an Afghan army uniform in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said.
(AP) Israel drawn into Syria fighting for first timeBy AMY TEIBELAssociated PressJERUSALEMIsrael was drawn into the Syrian civil war for the first time on Sunday, firing warning shots into the neighboring country after a stray mortar shell fired from Syrian
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com As Israeli election approaches, tensions escalate on border with Gaza Palestinian Authority will go to U.N. to ask for Palestinian state EU funding crisis as Britain leads a walkout on talks As Israeli election
Even though there are laws requiring investigators to inform Senate/House Intelligence committees when senior members of the Executive branch are under surveillance, it appears those laws were not followed in the development of the case against CIA Director David Petraeus.
Two Afghan soldiers attacked US-led NATO forces (ISAF) in western Afghanistan on Saturday — injuring a Spanish soldier — in the latest “insider” attack in the country, officials said. An ISAF spokesman in Kabul said that the attack by two
By JESSICA GRESKO and KEVIN McGILLAssociated PressSaturday marked the first of what will be three days of Veterans Day commemorations across the United States. The holiday falls on a Sunday, and the federal observance is on Monday. It’s the first
Iran on Saturday brushed aside newly-imposed US sanctions over media censorship, which it said was essential to preserve “moral values” in the Islamic republic. Dismissing them as “unimportant”, Islamic Culture and Guidance Minister Mohammad Hosseini said the sanctions “against the
Chinese officials accustomed to the tame questions of a compliant state press were caught out by a plucky 11-year-old reporter during the country’s sensitive Communist Party congress. Sun Luyuan, a Beijing sixth-grade student, on Friday shook up one of the
By KARIN LAUB and BARBARA SURKAssociated PressDOHA, QatarThe newly elected leader of Syria’s main opposition group slammed the international community for what he called inaction, saying Saturday that fighters are in desperate need of weapons to break the stalemate with
