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.
DUBAI (Reuters) – The Yemen-based branch of al Qaeda urged Muslims to step up protests and kill more U.S. diplomats in Muslim countries after a U.S.-made film mocking the Prophet Mohammad which it said was another chapter in the “crusader
The State Department has announced it will answer no more questions on the deaths of four Americans at a Libya consulate until the Justice Department completes an investigation of the September 11th incident. Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland passed responsibility to the
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Egypt’s ‘million man march’ fizzles as protesters attack in Sudan and Tunisia Japan/China confrontation brews as China sends warships to Senkaku islands Attacks on Japanese in Beijing increase as September 18 approaches Chinese expats
Barely more than three years ago, President Obama traveled to Cairo, speaking to students and offering a “new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world.” Now, in the wake of the storming of the US Embassy in Cairo on Tuesday,
In the wake of the Egyptian embassy attack on 9/11, Republican lawmakers are pressuring Obama to do retaliate. Rep. Peter King (R-NY) believes Obama should be putting heavy pressure on Egypt and its president, Mohamed Morsi. King says such pressure should continue
US Vice President Joe Biden Friday called Sudan’s Vice President Ali Osman Taha to express concern over the security of the US embassy in Khartoum as anti-US riots sweep the Muslim world.
(AP) LBENGHAZI, LibyaLibyan officials say U.S. drones hovering over the eastern city of Benghazi prompted militia forces to fire toward the craft, leading authorities to close the airport for several hours for fear a commercial aircraft could be hit. Abdel-Basit
The White House said Friday President Barack Obama asked Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to speak out against anti-American attacks in Arab countries and the YouTube movie that sparked them. Erdogan followed through on Obama’s request, saying in Ukraine
By ROBERT BURNSAP National Security WriterWASHINGTONA U.S. official says an insurgent attack on a British air base in southern Afghanistan has killed two American Marines and wounded several troops. The official says the attack at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan’s Helmand
Latest update from the Middle East: Tunis: Two dead, 29 injured at embassy protest. The U.S. Embassy now has the Al Qaeda flag flying over it. Yemen: Yemen’s interior ministry is saying four protesters were killed and 48 others including
UPDATE: (1:28pmET) TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s official news agency: 2 dead, 29 injured in US Embassy protest. UPDATE: TUNIS, Sept 14 (Reuters) – At least five protesters were wounded when Tunisian police opened fire on Friday to quell an
With the black flag of al Qaeda flying over the American embassy in Tunisia, the murder of the American ambassador in Libya, the storming of the US embassy in Cairo, the burning of the American flag in London, and the
By AYA BATRAWY and LEE KEATHAssociated PressCAIROA morgue official says an Egyptian protester has been killed in clashes with police near the U.S. Embassy in Cairo. The official says the 20 year old died from wounds suffered Friday from rubber
A KFC and a Hardees restaurant were burned Friday in Tripoli as Islamists violently targeted American interests in Lebanon. The mob clashed with police, who opened fire, killing one member of the mob and leaving 25 wounded. After Friday prayers,
Some 150 Muslims gathered outside the US embassy in London on Friday and burned US and Israeli flags in protest against a film that mocks Islam, an AFP photographer said. Demonstrators chanted “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest) and waved placards
(AP) Militants attack peacekeeper base in Egypt’s SinaiBy AYA BATRAWY and LEE KEATHAssociated PressCAIROA senior official with the international peacekeeping force in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula says suspected Islamic militants stormed their base near the Gaza-Israel border, wounding four officers. The
(AP) Hundreds of angry Afghans protest anti-Islam filmBy AMIR SHAHAssociated PressKABUL, AfghanistanHundreds of Afghans _ some shouting “Death to America” _ burned the U.S. flag and an effigy of President Barack Obama on Friday during a protest against an anti-Islam
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If that’s the case, then the picture painted by the continuously updated Google Map assembled by Atlantic Wire speaks volumes more than the Obama Administration would like voters to hear:
The United States said Friday that reports it had advance warning of the attack on its consulate in Benghazi which killed the US ambassador to Libya were “absolutely wrong.”
(AP) Sudan: Protesters try to climb US Embassy wallBy AYA BATRAWY and LEE KEATHAssociated PressCAIROWitnesses say Sudanese police have opened fire on protesters trying to climb the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum. The witnesses say several thousands of
Islamists around the world are setting their countries on fire. Tunisia: In Tunis, Islamist protesters jumped over the wall of the U.S. Embasy compound, broke windows and set fire to trees; police fired tear gas at the protestors in order to
By Catherine Bremer and Alessandra Prentice PARIS/LONDON | Fri Sep 14, 2012 3:01pm BST (Reuters) – French magazine Closer unleashed a new media tornado on the royal family on Friday with a five-page splash of photos showing the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate
(AP) German FM: Sudan embassy in flames BERLINGermany’s Foreign Minister says the country’s embassy in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum has been stormed by protesters and set partially on fire. Guido Westerwelle told reporters in Berlin on Friday that the
Tunisian police fired tear gas at stone-throwing protesters gathered Friday outside the US embassy in a Tunis suburb to denounce a film mocking Islam, an AFP journalist reported. The security forces intervened when hardline Salafist members of the several hundred-strong
Paul Mirengoff at Powerline reported that the Marine Corps issued a statement on Thursday confirming that prior to the September 11 murder of Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi, Libya, no Marines were stationed in Libya, either at
