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, United Arab Emirates, May 1 (UPI) — Three Iranians were arrested earlier by Egyptian security for allegedly plotting to kill Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Cairo, an official said Tuesday. Egyptian officials had informed Saudi Arabia authorities at the time
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Left and right plan dueling May Day rallies in France Greece’s ultra-nationalist Golden Dawn party promises to expel all non-Greeks Greece opens a controversial detention center for illegal migrants German Right-wing activists plan ‘Mohammed
President Barack Obama made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan late Tuesday, meeting with President Hamid Karzai immediately after arriving in Kabul, an AFP reporter traveling with the president said. Obama, who landed at Bagram Air base at 10:20 pm local
By CHARLES HUTZLERAssociated PressBEIJINGThe blind, corn-country activist at the center of a diplomatic tussle between the U.S. and China did not set out to be a dissident. Chen Guangcheng taught himself law to defend the constitutional rights he saw trampled
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal jury found a Bosnian-born U.S. citizen guilty on Tuesday of planning a coordinated suicide bomb attack on New York City subways in 2009 at the behest of senior al Qaeda operatives. Adis Medunjanin, 28,
Documents found embedded in a pornographic movie have revealed a storehouse of information about al Qaeda’s plans for future terrorist attacks. In May of last year, a 22-year-old named Maqsood Lodin was traveling from Pakistan to Germany, and was stopped
From the Washington Free Beacon: The office of Vice President Joe Biden overruled State and Justice Department officials in denying the political asylum request of a senior Chinese communist official last February over fears the high-level defection would upset the
Five self-described anarchists have been arrested in a plot to blow up a bridge in Cleveland, Ohio, but the public was never in any danger, the FBI said Tuesday. The anarchists spent months planning several different attacks but did not
While President Obama has been exploiting the killing of Osama Bin Laden for his re-election campaign, cutting ads that suggest that Mitt Romney wouldn’t have pulled the trigger on the operation to get Bin Laden, the evidence shows otherwise. As
Paul Richter of the Los Angeles Times reports that the Obama administration may be prepared to capitulate to Iranian demands that it be allowed to enrich uranium–a measure that would defy UN Security Council Resolution 1696, which prevents any nuclear
I’m often asked by fellow conservatives why so many Jews support Barack Obama, given how bad he is for Israel. The answer is that Jews who care most about Israel, and about U.S. security, don’t–but also that most Jews don’t
US Navy SEALs, both active and retired, have bashed President Obama for celebrating his supposed “gutsy call,” adding that he was using them as “ammunition” in his presidential re-election campaign. As Toby Harnden of the UK Daily Mail reports: Ryan
The United States has deployed sophisticated F-22 fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates amid deepening tensions between Iran and its pro-US neighbors, officials said Monday. The US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, would not say how many F-22s
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. China faces new humiliation in case of dissident Chen Guangcheng Possible Chinese retaliation against internal dissidents Proposed military strike on Iran causes open political war in Israel Osama bin Laden’s widows and children arrive
The World Trade Center tower built to replace the destroyed Twin Towers was set to become New York’s tallest skyscraper Monday, surpassing the venerable Empire State Building. Workers were expected to slot steel columns at about 2:00 pm (1800 GMT)
By MATTHEW CRAFTAP Business WriterNEW YORKNews that Spain’s economy entered another recession renewed worries about the fragility of Europe’s finances on Monday and nudged stocks lower. The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 35 points to 13,192 shortly after noon Eastern.
By ALEXA OLESENAssociated PressBEIJINGU.S. and Chinese officials are ironing out a deal to secure American asylum for a blind Chinese legal activist who fled house arrest, with an agreement likely before Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives this week, a
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday looked set to call early elections in a bid to strengthen his position before a potential fight over austerity measures and US elections in November. For now, Netanyahu has made no official announcement
By KARIN LAUBAssociated PressBEIRUTTwo suicide bombers blew up cars rigged with explosives near a military compound and a hotel in northwestern Syria on Monday, killing at least nine people and wounding nearly 100, state media said. The powerful blasts, which
Fugitive rebel warlord Joseph Kony is operating in volatile border areas between Sudan and South Sudan, as well as the Central African Republic, Uganda’s army chief said Monday. Kony, originally from Uganda, is based in remote regions between CAR, South
Iran’s political and military leaders have long drawn attention to themselves. Between their promised aggression toward Israel, their actual progress in producing a nuclear weapon, and their eagerness to supply weapons to insurgents fighting U.S. troops, they are a focal
Benzion Netanyahu, Ivy League historian, and father of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Entebbe hostage rescue hero Yonatan Netanyahu, passed away in Israel of natural causes today at the age of 102. Born in Warsaw, the elder Netanyahu became
(AP) The 5 al-Qaida leaders most wanted by USBy The Associated Press On May 2, 2011, Navy SEALs shot and killed al-Qaida leader and Sept. 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden in his home in Abbottabad, Pakistan. It was a raid
KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) – Gunmen killed at least 15 people and wounded many more on Sunday in an attack on a university theatre being used by Christian worshippers in Kano, a northern Nigerian city where hundreds have died in Islamist
China said Sunday it had rejected a proposal by the Philippines for international mediation to resolve their maritime dispute in the South China Sea. China “formally protested after a request for international mediation submitted by the Philippines over the sovereignty
