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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has postponed a visit to Norway fearing a violent backlash at home over an anti-Islam film that sparked riots killing the US ambassador in Libya, according to officials. The assault, which killed four American diplomats in

Egypt’s Islamist President Mohamed Morsi Thursday slammed “attacks” on the Muslim prophet Mohammed in a film on Islam that sparked an outcry in Egypt, while also stressing that he condemned violence.

Yemeni protesters, angry over a film mocking Islam, on Thursday stormed the complex of the US embassy in Sanaa, defying efforts by riot police to hold them at bay, an AFP correspondent said. Protesters torched a number of diplomatic vehicle

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – A squad of U.S. troops despatched by helicopter across the Libyan desert to rescue besieged diplomats from Benghazi on Wednesday ran into a fierce overnight ambush that left a further two Americans dead, Libyan officials told

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CAIRO (Reuters) – Security forces fired teargas to disperse stone-throwing demonstrators near the U.S. embassy in Cairo late on Wednesday, some 24 hours after protesters scaled the walls and tore down the flag over a film insulting the Prophet Mohammad.

US President Barack Obama said the killers of the American ambassador to Libya would be brought to justice, as the United States dispatched two destroyers and a unit of Marines to Libya. Tuesday’s assault on the Benghazi consulate followed a

Israeli sources have revealed that Egypt’s General Intelligence warned jihadists were planning attacks on U.S. and Israeli embassies as early as a week before they occurred on the anniversary of Al Qaeda’s 9/11 terror attacks. The report indicated that the group

President Mohamed Morsi is set to seek increased aid and investment from Europe for Egypt’s beleaguered economy when he visits Brussels on Thursday on his first trip to Europe since his election in June. The Islamist president “wishes to talk

Protesters have taken to the streets in the West Bank to throw stones, burn tires, break into buildings, and hold signs demanding the resignation of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. In a fashion eerily similar to the start of events last year

Today, speaking about the despicable and stomach-wrenching attacks by Islamists on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and our embassy in Cairo, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked: “How could this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city

On a target date like the eleventh anniversary of 9/11, it is quite the jaw-dropping revelation to learn that there were no Marines guarding the U. S. consulate where Chris Stevens, our ambassador to Libya, was brutally murdered yesterday: Marine Corps spokeswoman

President Obama claims Libyan security forces fought beside Americans against attackers on Tuesday, but a Libyan official says they gave up consulate personnel to the Islamists who murdered them. Libya’s Deputy Interior Minister Wanis al-Sharif says the consulate’s security forces moved

Protesters turned out in Tunisia, Morocco, and Sudan today as US embassies in at least seven countries warned of possible attacks sparked by outrage over an anti-Islamic film. In Tunisia, some 200 protesters turned up at the US embassy and

Islamic mobs that stormed the U.S. Embassy in Egypt and the U.S. consulate in Libya on the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, murdering the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, said they were doing so because they were enraged by an

Just whom do you trust more with defending America, Mitt Romney or Barack Obama? Okay, that was too easy. Let’s put it another way: which candidate railed about George W. Bush’s missile system, which strengthened long-range defenses (calling his own

Libya on Wednesday apologised to the United States a day after US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed when an armed mob stormed the American consulate in Benghazi.

Now that Barack Obama has shown the wide gap between himself and Israel by rejecting Benjamin Netanyahu’s request for a meeting so Obama can appear on David Letterman, other countries are reacting by standing against Israel, too. India has now

There are sure to be people asking why Barack Obama turned down a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, given the critical nature of Iran’s race toward nuclear weaponry. Obama’s animus toward Israel is an open secret, but there may be an

(AP) US Embassy in Algiers warns of protestsALGIERS, AlgeriaThe U.S. Embassy in Algiers is warning Americans in the country to avoid non-essential travel amid calls for protests after an attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya. The embassy said in

The U.S. formally transferred control of its largest prison to the Afghans in a ceremony Monday at Bagram airbase north of Kabul. The Obama Administration agreed in March to cede control of Bagram, also known as the Parwan Detention Facility,

Although the head of Libya’s National Assembly has formally apologized for the killing of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens, other higher-ranking Libyan officials refuse to apologize and continue to contend the US is to blame. For example, Libya’s Deputy Interior Minister

The Afghan government on Wednesday banned YouTube to prevent people from watching an anti-Islam film that sparked a violent anti-American demonstration in Libya which killed the US ambassador.

According to the White House calendar, there is no public record of President Barack Obama attending his daily intelligence briefing–known as the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB)–in the week leading up to the attacks on the U.S. embassy in Cairo and

On Tuesday, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said America was still Israel’s “chief ally” even after the United States rebuffed Israel’s request for a “red line” to be placed before Iran to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons.   “We