The Empire of Japan surrendered on Aug. 14-15, 1945, ending World War II. The formal ceremony took place aboard the battleship Missouri on Sept. 2. That was then: And this is now: Makes you proud to be a post-American, doesn’t
The U.S. Senate passed legislation to strengthen border security with President Obama expected to sign the bill into law. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Iraq’s chief of staff urges the US military to stay in Iraq until 2020, warning the country’s security forces are not ready to go it alone.
The increase is due to the Taliban’s latest assaults on civilian targets.
The last U.S. combat brigade remaining in Iraq has handed over a military base in western Baghdad to Iraqi security forces. Jon Decker reports.
Hundreds of survivors left homeless by Pakistan’s floods camp on a motorway, as President Zardari continues his visit to Paris, London.
Critics are calling the White House tone-deaf for Michelle Obama’s 5-day vacation in Spain, during a week in which the government reported 131,000 jobs were lost in July.
From James Pethokoukis at Reuters: Main Street may be about to get its own gigantic bailout. Rumors are running wild from Washington to Wall Street that the Obama administration is about to order government-controlled lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
This is the latest in a string of stabbing murders targeting school children.
A suicide bomb attack kills a senior police officer in Pakistan’s northwestern town of Peshawar.
Yesterday, Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) ambushed an IDF position in Israeli territory along the Lebanese border in northern Israel. Coordinated with the United Nations Peacekeeping troops (UNIFIL), the IDF forces were cutting down a tree that obstructed its view of
Here’s what happened yesterday morning along the so-called Blue Line, the internationally recognized, UN-codified border between Israel and Lebanon. Israeli soldiers were trimming trees and clearing brush as they routinely do, because that kind of natural cover has been used
Earlier yesterday Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) ambushed an IDF position in Israeli territory along the Lebanese border in northern Israel. Coordinated with the United Nations Peacekeeping troops (UNIFIL), the IDF forces were cutting down a tree that obstructed its view
Spain awaits the arrival of U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama and her daughter Sasha.
An amateur artist from St. Petersburg, Russia, offers paintings which she creates with her breasts. Tara Cleary reports.
French riot police have been caught on film dragging women along the ground with babies on their backs while evicting immigrants.
Police arrested anti-Kremlin opposition leader Boris Nemtsov in Moscow and at least 95 others on Saturday at demonstrations in cities across Russia against restrictions on freedom of assembly.
In the Afghan war, officials say it is not always clear just who the enemy is, and how many of them there are.
Just earlier this week, Iranian President Mahmoud Amhadinejad announced that the United States and Israel would attack two countries in the Middle East. Charles Krauthammer suggests he has in mind Lebanon and Syria. That Middle Eastern autocrats focus myopically on
Same-sex marriages begin in Argentina in wake of historic legislation legalizing the unions.
Military working dogs have seen some of the fiercest fighting on the front lines in Afghanistan.
The North Koreans are threatening a ‘sacred war’ and ‘physical response’ to the joint U.S.-South Korean naval exercises taking place in the Sea of Japan between Japan and Korea, and soon in the Yellow Sea between China and Korea. The
North Korea and China warn that joint military exercises by the US and South Korea exacerbate regional tension.
Southern China has been hit by typhoon Chanthu, the second in less than a week, as the death toll from floods and landslides across the country climbed to nearly 300 this month alone.
