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.
Britain came under pressure Monday after Ecuador’s South American neighbours backed Quito’s decision to grant Julian Assange asylum, but he remained a virtual prisoner in its London embassy. The WikiLeaks founder made a defiant appearance from the balcony of the
More than 20 prisoners and a visitor have been killed in an outbreak of violence between rival gangs in a prison near the Venezuelan capital, a government minister said Monday.
Israel has been holding four Palestinian militants since May on suspicion of plotting to kidnap Israelis for use as bargaining chips for their jailed leader, the security service said on Monday. The Shin Bet statement ended a protracted media blackout
(AP) Intense fighting rages in Syria’s Aleppo, DaraaBy HAMZA HENDAWIAssociated PressBEIRUTSyrian government forces heavily shelled the cities of Aleppo and Daraa and a suburb of Damascus on the second day of a major Muslim holiday Monday, killing up to 30
General Martin Dempsey, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stated the obvious in Afghanistan this weekend: that the U.S. and Israel see the Iranian nuclear threat differently–not because they are operating on different facts or intelligence about Iran, but
Egyptian officials have announced that Egyptian President and Muslim Brotherhood member Mohamed Morsi will be traveling to Iran later this month to attend a summit. It’s the first such trip for an Egyptian leader in decades, and the timing couldn’t
As I wrote on Aug. 16, a growing number of Special Ops personnel are going on the record against intelligence leaks coming out of the Obama White House. At the same time, a growing number of troops and salt-of-the-earth Americans are
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Former Israeli military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin published an op-ed in the Washington Post this weekend urging President Barack Obama to visit Israel as a way of preventing war by convincing Iran and its international supporters that there is no gap
(AP) Syria’s Assad makes rare public appearanceBy ZEINA KARAMAssociated PressBEIRUTSyria’s President Bashar Assad attended Eid prayers in a mosque in Damascus on Sunday, his first appearance in public after a bombing in the Syrian capital last month that killed the
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Iraq has been helping Iran skirt economic sanctions imposed because of its nuclear program, using a network of financial institutions and oil-smuggling operations that are providing Tehran with a crucial flow of dollars, the New York Times said
WikiLeaks on Sunday urged Sweden, which wants to question its website’s founder Julian Assange over alleged sexual misconduct, to guarantee it would not extradite him to the United States. Assange, who has been holed up in Ecuador’s London embassy for
A suspected Al-Qaeda suicide bomber blew himself up early Sunday in southern Yemen killing the commander of a local pro-army militia and wounding six people, a government official told AFP. Two children were among the wounded in the town of
Michael J. Totten’s writing for World Affairs believes the conditions are ripe for military intervention and suggests the outcome could be beneficial to the US and Western powers. “A fresh government in Damascus will almost certainly be less friendly toward
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com South Africa racial tensions revived with bloody mine workers confrontation BBC’s Humphrey Hawksley scammed by HSBC bank Japanese officials to visit disputed islands after ‘stunt’ by Chinese activists China protests visit by Japanese nationalists
Russian President Vladimir Putin has long been accused of ruling that country with an iron fist. And the recent sentencing of the Russian punk rock band Pussy Riot provided the perfect stage on which to see Putin’s methods writ large.
Philippine Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo is among three people missing after a small plane crashed at sea off a central island on Saturday, officials said. The Cessna crashed near the shore of Masbate island while trying to make an emergency
The conflict in Syria is a struggle between the United States and Iran whose outcome will decide whether the Middle East follows the path of an Iran-inspired Islamic movement or US influence, a top Iranian official said on Saturday. Khamenei
(AP) Russian Orthodox church forgives Pussy RiotMOSCOWTwo top clerics in the Russian Orthodox Church say it has forgiven the members of feminist punk band Pussy Riot who were convicted of hooliganism and sent to prison for briefly taking over a
(AP) Iran commander ‘welcomes’ possible Israeli strikeTEHRAN, IranA senior Iranian commander says a possible Israeli airstrike against his country’s nuclear facilities is “welcome” because it would give Iran a reason to retaliate and “get rid of” the Jewish state “forever.”
I consider Senator Frank Lautenberg a personal friend and a distinguished Jewish leader. My criticism, therefore, of his furious attack on Republican attitudes toward Obama on Israel is offered very respectfully. Senator Lautenberg says that Republicans ought to be ashamed of themselves
“Efforts of the Servant of the Two Holy Places, King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz to Support The Muslim Minorities” was the title of a manifesto that explains a set of accomplishments and future plans by the Saudi Royal family, commissioned
On August 8th there was a peaceful transfer of power from the National Transitional Council in Libya, to the National Congress. This follows the July 7 elections where over 3,000 candidates ran for office (including 600 women). The makeup of
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Lakhdar Brahimi to replace Kofi Annan as Syria peace envoy Arrest of minister in Lebanon may signal weakening power of Hizbollah For one brief, shining Olympic moment, Russians loved North Caucasians Relations between South
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOVAssociated PressMOSCOWThree punk rock-style activists who briefly took over a cathedral in a raucous prayer for deliverance from Vladimir Putin were sentenced to two years in prison for hooliganism on Friday, a decision that drew protests around the
