National Security

The United States is deploying a US Marine anti-terrorism team to Libya to bolster security after a deadly attack on its consulate in Benghazi, a US defense official said Wednesday.

The U.S. embassy in Cairo issued apologetic statements on 9/11–both before and during attacks by a radical mob. Those statements, condemning the supposed abuse of free speech by Americans who had criticized Islam, were later disavowed by the White House–though

Egypt’s powerful Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday called for nationwide protests Friday after a film deemed offensive to Islam sparked a deadly attack in Libya and furious protests in Cairo. The Brotherhood calls “for peaceful protests on Friday outside all the

While members of the Obama administration were busy apologizing to Islamists who were climbing our walls in Egypt, tearing down our flag and raising up their own, an outraged Charles Krauthammer warned on Fox News’ Special Report that the apology was

US ambassador Chris Stevens had hailed the Libyan revolt that overthrew Moamer Kadhafi, but now appears to have been struck down in a rocket attack by forces unleashed after the strongman’s fall. Stevens was killed in an attack on the

(AP) US ambassador killed in consulate attack in LibyaBy ESAM MOHAMED and MAGGIE MICHAELAssociated PressTRIPOLI, LibyaThe U.S. ambassador to Libya and three American members of his staff were killed in the attack on the U.S. consulate in the eastern city

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Protesters attack U.S. Embassy in Cairo Egypt U.S. consulate employee killed in attack on Libya embassy Catalonia demands independence from Spain Germany’s Constitutional Court to rule on legality of bailouts Greece to determine WW

Islamists in Egypt and Libya who attacked a US embassy and consulate were joined by protesters at the US embassy in Jakarta as well. The Islamists in Jakarta were part of a group called “Sharia for Indonesia,” and they demonstrated against

(AP) Egyptian protesters scale US Embassy wall in CairoBy SARAH EL DEEB and MAGGIE MICHAELAssociated PressCAIROMainly ultraconservative protesters climbed the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Egypt’s capital Tuesday and brought down the American flag, replacing it with a black

Following a White House disavowal of apologies by the U.S. embassy in Egypt on 9/11 for insulting Islam–a disavowal which was itself soon contradicted by the State Department–the embassy has begun deleting tweets from its Twitter feed (@USEmbassyCairo). The embassy–and

President Obama’s central foreign policy accomplishment, according to his campaign, is the killing of Osama Bin Laden. And it’s quite an accomplishment: finding a man hidden halfway around the globe, ensconced among his multiple wives, with no access to the

For the second time in as many weeks, the State Department has contradicted President Barack Obama, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton re-affirmed the apologetic stance disavowed earlier this evening by the White House in reacting to the storming of

Navy Times reports that naval vessels displayed onscreen at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC last week during a tribute to U.S. veterans were, in fact, Soviet-era Russian naval ships: On the last night of the Democratic National Convention, a

Mitt Romney came out firing this evening against the Obama administration’s feckless response to the attacks on American embassies in Libya and Egypt. His campaign just released his statement moments ago: I’m outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions

Faced with increasing criticism over an apology issued by the U.S. Embassy in Egypt for the alleged “abuse” of free speech by Americans critical of Islam–even as Islamist radicals raided the building on the 11th anniversary of 9/11–the Obama administration

Egyptian Islamists protesting a film they found disrespectful to Mohammed raised the flag of terror group Al-Qaeda over the U.S. embassy in Cairo Tuesday. A clearer photo of the flag comes courtesy of EPA’s Khaled Elfiqi: While several news outlets

Americans are reacting in shock after the U.S. Embassy in Egypt apologized to the Muslim world for “abuse” of free speech–after it was stormed by radical Islamists who raised the Al Qaeda flag and chanted slogans in support of Osama

An American has been killed on the 11th anniversary of 9/11 as Islamist mobs attacked and burned the U.S. consulate in Libya.  A US official was killed and another wounded on Tuesday as an armed mob protesting over a film

A US official was killed and another wounded on Tuesday as an armed mob protesting over a film they said offended Islam attacked the US consulate in Benghazi, an official told AFP. Libya’s deputy interior minister Wanis al-Sharef said: “One

While angry mobs raged against the U.S. embassy in Cairo and set fire to our consulate in Libya, President Obama spent time talking with the “Pimp with the Limp”:  The President spent the somber 11th anniversary of 9/11 with his

In the first and second parts of this series on the Muslim Brotherhood’s takeover of Egypt–and what it means for the US and its allies–we noted that both the Obama administration and the mainstream media have consistently misjudged the political

The Obama Administration is letting Israel twist slowly in the wind. The Israeli government, desperately trying to convince the U.S. government to draw a line in the sand that Iran must not cross, is pleading to a president deaf, unconcerned,

Egypt’s ruling party, the extremist Muslim Brotherhood, blasted the United States after an angry Islamist mob stormed the U.S. embassy’s walls and shredded an American flag over alleged offenses in a film that no one can name. Said the spokesman

What the Arab Spring Barack Obama championed has wrought: According to Al Ahram online: An armed mob has attacked the US consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi and set fire to the building, witnesses reported, in what they said