The Syrian regime has fired Scud missiles at rebel forces trying to oust Bashar al-Assad, a US official said, after Arab and Western states recognised the opposition bloc as the sole representative there. Earlier Wednesday an AFP journalist in northwestern
Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R- UT) told Breitbart News on Wednesday that he has been “thwarted” by the State Department from seeing any Americans who survived the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi. Many people forget that there
On the same day President Barack Obama recognized the main Syrian opposition coalition as the rightful representatives of the Syrian people, his State Department classified the al-Nusra Front, an increasingly popular Islamist rebel faction, as a terrorist group. The classification
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, (R-FL), Chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, plans to ask Secretary of State Hillary Clinton why U.S. diplomatic security agents in Benghazi were not initially armed when the attacks on the embassy compound happened. The Congresswoman
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Egypt’s president Morsi to allow the army to arrest people Egypt’s opposition plans mass rally in Cairo on Tuesday U.S. tries to slow growth of ‘Al-Qaeda in Iraq’ in Syria Mercedes-Benz gives Pope Benedict
A source with personal knowledge of the security situation in Benghazi told Breitbart News that Senators who listened to closed door testimony about the Benghazi attack were shocked to learn State Department security personnel agents were not immediately armed. Additionally,
State Department Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told the press pool today that there are no updates on the independent investigative report of the security failures and response of the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya. When asked if the
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will soon testify before US lawmakers at an open-door hearing about the deadly September attack on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya, a top lawmaker said. Clinton will appear before the House Committee on Foreign
The US State Department expressed concern Thursday over the influence of fundamentalist groups in Syria, including the Al-Nusra Front, which is said to have ties to Al-Qaeda. As opposition fighters in Syria struggle to topple the regime of President Bashar
State Department Deputy Spokesman Mark Toner addressed reports that another top official in Syria has defected and fled the country. Toner said, “If true, this is obviously another sign of the regime crumbling from within as those closest to Assad
State Department Deputy Spokesman Mark Toner called the recent vote by the UN to grant Palestine observer status a “setback” to the peace process with Israel. His statement came in response to a New York Times article asking the US
For almost four minutes during the short State Department daily press briefing today, multiple reporters attempted to press State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner into condemning Israel for reported acts that Toner could not even confirm were true. Reporters bounced
One of the main arguments against the Obama plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and the president’s attempts to bring “justice” to terrorists in the civilian courts is that upon release, these individuals become doubly dangerous. (We know
President Obama issued a statement today saying that if Syria were to use or proliferate chemical weapons that it would cross a “red line” with the American government. However, neither spokesmen for the White House or the State Department had
It’s become clear we’re never going to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict until we first resolve the fake refugee fiasco. I turned to noted ME scholar and director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Asaf Romirowsky to gain his
Environmentalists are furious that potential Secretary of State nominee and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice owns stock in TransCanada Corp, the pipeline firm that would benefit from the Keystone XL pipeline, which the State Department would have to approve. In an
(AP) Pressure mounting on Obama over pipeline decisionBy JOSH LEDERMANAssociated PressWASHINGTONEmbarking on a second term, President Barack Obama faces mounting pressure on a decision he had put off during his re-election campaign: whether to approve the $7 billion proposed Keystone
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland confirmed today that although Palestine forced a vote in the UN over observer status — a maneuver the US has expressly been against — it still wants Congress to continue to give almost $500 million
Following last year’s failed attempt by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to gain admission to the United Nations as a full member state via UN Security Council vote (known as the Unilateral Declaration of Independence, or UDI), PA President Mahmoud Abbas
Over at Hot Air, Allahpundit makes a superb point. On MSNBC, the insufferably smug Joe Scarborough has been blistering Republicans for days now, specifically John McCain and Lindsey Graham, for threatening to block Susan Rice’s nomination as Secretary of State.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has blistered U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice for her incompetence and lies to the American people about Benghazi. But he has refrained from criticizing Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State whose negligence allowed terrorists to attack the
The New York Times, in its reprehensible campaign to vilify Israel and whitewash Hamas, has resorted to lying about terrorists Israel has killed by pretending the targets were journalists. The author, one David Carr, reported in a piece titled “Using
A State Department spokesperson has announced that singer-songwriter, entrepeneur, and all-around embodiment of sprezzatura Andrew W.K. will not represent the United States as a cultural ambassador to Bahrain. Spokesperson Noel Clay said the planned trip was “a mistake and not
Congressman Peter King (R-NY), the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, was still demanding answers about Ambassador Susan Rice and the response in Libya on “Meet the Press” this morning. Congressman King: “First, let me just say, I think
Andrew Fetterly Wilkes-Krier is one accomplished dude: international rock icon, music producer, club owner, motivational speaker, and television host — and soon, he’ll be known as a world statesman. Known by his fans as Andrew W.K., Wilkes-Krier is known for
