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.
(Reuters) – Mitt Romney launched a fresh attack on President Barack Obama’s Middle East policy on Monday, saying the United States is moving dangerously closer to being pulled into the region’s chaos and that puts “our security at risk.” In
If you want to look for a motive behind the White House deceiving, and in some instances, outright lying about what really happened in Libya on the eleventh anniversary of 9/11, look no further than this Washington Post story: Security
Iran’s currency, the rial, plunged nine percent against the dollar at the opening of trade on Monday, to a record low of 32,500 to the greenback, real-time exchange websites showed. The freefall exacerbated a slide over this year that accelerated
An explosion in eastern Afghanistan killed three NATO soldiers on Monday, the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said. An Afghan police spokesman said the blast was a suicide attack on an ISAF patrol in Khost city and that several
(AP) TV critic of Egypt’s Islamist president freedBy HAMZA HENDAWIAssociated PressCAIROSecurity officials say the owner of a TV station on trial for incitement following his call for the killing of Egypt’s Islamist president has been released after being briefly detained
Bangladesh sent in troops to guard Buddhist neighbourhoods Monday after Muslim mobs carried out fresh attacks on temples and homes over a Facebook photo deemed offensive to Islam, police said. At least five temples were attacked in different neighbourhoods of
(AP) Iran restores access to GmailTEHRAN, IranIranian authorities have restored access to Gmail a week after blocking Google’s popular email service. The Islamic Republic blocked Gmail last week in response to video clips posted on YouTube of an anti-Islam film
A report indicates Kim Jong Un is taking the reins of North Korea’s economy away from the military, reversing the direction in which his father took the country for decades. According to the report, economic control has been taken from
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Reports: Syria, under Russian guidance, interrogated and murdered Turkish pilots Turkey deploys armored vehicles to Syrian border Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party comes to New York and Montreal Europe-Greece bailout negotiations resume with ‘a
(AP) Next cold war? Gas drilling boom rattles RussiaBy KEVIN BEGOSAssociated PressPITTSBURGH The Kremlin is watching, European nations are rebelling, and some suspect Moscow is secretly bankrolling a campaign to derail the West’s strategic plans. It’s not some Cold War
Tomorrow, the country of Georgia will hold its parliamentary elections. Those elections will pit two foes: incumbent president Mikhail Saakashvili and his party, the United National Movement, against Bidzina Ivanishvili and his coalition party, Georgian Dream. Saakashvili is pro-American. Ivanishvili
An Afghan solider turned his gun on American troops yesterday at a checkpoint in eastern Afghanistan. The soldier killed two Americans and three Afghan soldiers in the vicinity of the U.S. troops. One of the Americans was a member of
Anyone who thinks the Obama administration won’t release the Blind Sheik needs to look at what happened early Saturday morning and then think again. Under cover of darkness and without prior announcement convicted terrorist and murderer Omar Khadr was quietly shipped
(AP) Hugo Chavez says he’d vote for ObamaCARACAS, Venezuela Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has weighed in on the U.S. presidential race, saying he prefers President Barack Obama. Chavez also said in a televised interview that aired Sunday that he’d like
(AP) Syrian fighting torches historic medieval marketBy KARIN LAUBAssociated PressBEIRUTA fire sparked by battles between Syrian President Bashar Assad’s troops and rebel fighters tore through Aleppo’s centuries-old covered market Saturday, burning wooden doors and scorching stone stalls and vaulted passageways.
UPDATE: Death toll at 19. A wave of bombings and a shooting in Iraq killed at least 13 people and wounded 33 on Sunday, security and medical officials said. Four car bombs exploded in Taji, north of Baghdad, killing at
(AP) US military deaths in Afghanistan hit 2,000By PATRICK QUINNAssociated PressKABUL, AfghanistanU.S. military deaths in the Afghan war have reached 2,000, a cold reminder of the human cost of an 11-year-old conflict that now garners little public interest at home
The European Union and United States are set to toughen nuclear sanctions aiming to punish Iran while seeking to hold back Israel from a military strike, top officials said as the showdown enters a critical phase. Western moves to pressure
Thousands of rioters torched Buddhist temples and homes in southeastern Bangladesh Sunday in a rare attack against the community over a photo posted on Facebook deemed offensive to Islam. Officials said the mob comprising some 25,000 people set fire to
Bombing and shooting attacks have killed six people and left 27 wounded across the restive Thai south in two days of violence in the insurgency-plagued region, police said Sunday. Five people were gunned down and over two dozen injured in
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Violent tactics by riot police cause bloodshed in Madrid, Spain Ethnic Russian nationalism drives move to separate the North Caucasus from Russia The age of disillusion haunts senior citizens in China Violent tactics by
The changing explanations on who was behind the September 11 Benghazi attack have pulled back the covers on Obama’s foreign policy frailty. Reports making the rounds this weekend highlight the fact that Obama has been “suddenly exposed on national security
French President Francois Hollande has made good on his promise to force the “super rich” to pay their fair share by implementing a 75% tax on higher incomes in his 2013 budget. The tax will apply to incomes of more
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged $45 million to the Syrian opposition on Friday. This announcement comes as the Obama administration faces heavy opposition over its pledge to send $450 million to Egypt’s Islamist government. Clinton says the money to Syria
With less than 40 days to go until the election, foreign policy has been the focus recently with the attacks on our embassies two weeks ago and the United Nations General Assembly taking place this week. The President’s handling of
