By MAGGIE MICHAEL and AYA BATRAWYAssociated PressCAIROSupporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi clashed Friday in the worst violence since he took office, while he defended a decision to give himself near-absolute power to root out what he called “weevils
Yesterday the United States, Brunei, and Indonesia formed the US-Asia Pacific Comprehensive Partnership for a Sustainable Energy Future, and President Barack Obama promised up to $6 billion for the green energy idea. “The Partnership will offer a framework for consolidating
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) erased the name of a U.S. official attending a Monday conference in Saudi Arabia on banning “defamation of Islam” after her presence was widely reported by conservative media. An initial post on the OIC
A spirited exchange between Associated Press reporter Matthew Lee and spokesperson Victoria Nuland marked the U.S. State Department’s daily briefing Monday on the continued violence between Israel and Hamas. Lee slammed Nuland for their silence on Israel in what the
In a little-noticed exchange from the State Department on Friday, State Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland openly refused to say whether an Israeli ground assault on Hamas forces in the Gaza Strip would fall under the Israeli right to self-defense. Here’s
By CHRIS TALBOTTAP Music WriterNASHVILLE, Tenn.Jason Mraz will make history next month when he performs in Myanmar to raise awareness about human trafficking. Mraz will headline a free outdoor concert on Dec. 16 at People’s Square in Yangon, at the
Today, five Democratic Congresswomen attacked Republican criticism of U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice, who is reputedly Barack Obama’s pick to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. They actually called her an “American treasure.” This was after Barack Obama called Republican criticism
(AP) Israel assassinates Hamas military chief in Gaza By IBRAHIM BARZAK and JOSEF FEDERMANAssociated PressGAZA CITY, Gaza StripIsrael carried out a blistering offensive of more than 20 airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, assassinating Hamas’ military commander and targeting
Iran on Saturday brushed aside newly-imposed US sanctions over media censorship, which it said was essential to preserve “moral values” in the Islamic republic. Dismissing them as “unimportant”, Islamic Culture and Guidance Minister Mohammad Hosseini said the sanctions “against the
Mexican authorities charged 14 federal police officers with attempted murder over a shooting in August that wounded two US government employees, reportedly CIA agents. The attorney general’s office said on Friday the officers, who were formally placed under arrest, “attempted
On Election Day, the State Department invited a top economic analyst to hold a briefing for foreign reporters about the U.S. economy. The analyst’s message was clear: the U.S. is getting downgraded again. Kathy Bostjancic, director of Macroeconomic Analysis for
The cover-up of what really happened in Benghazi continues: the State Department, responding to requests from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to release documents pertaining to the debacle, will make those records available for review only this Thursday and Friday.
Even as Obama and Ahmadinejad deny that any nuclear negotiations have been entered into by the U.S. and Iran, Senior Obama Advisor Valerie Jarrett is reportedly negotiating with Tehran on Obama’s behalf. If true this claim could confirm the New
Less than a month before the Sept 11 attack on Benghazi, State Department and other officials met to consider scuttling the Benghazi consulate and moving operations into the CIA annex less than a mile away. In a cable from an
Patricia Smith, mother of slain State Department technician Sean Patrick Smith, who was killed in the Sept. 11 U.S. consulate attack in Benghazi, Libya, is mincing no words as to whom she blames for her son’s death. She says Barack
But the stonewalling didn’t stop there. After multiple reports that classified documents have been left exposed, to be found by looters and journalists, at the the Benghazi site, reporters in the State Department press pool are questioning how the administration
Since the Obama Administration has launched the Accountability Review Board (ARB) to investigate the murders of U.S. diplomats and intelligence gatherers in Benghazi, the State Department has been tight-lipped on any developments discovered by news agencies. That changed this week
Reports indicate a breakdown in communication within the Obama administration during the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi on September 11, 2012. Top counter-terrorism officials say they received little to no communication from other agencies or members of the
On Oct 4, I had a post which indicated that sensitive U.S. documents were still strewn across floors and scorched furniture in the Benghazi consulate. The bad news — the documents were still lying in the open in the scorched
There is virtually no doubt now that the Obama Administration, despite their attempts to lie to the American public, knew that the attack on the Benghazi compound and the subsequent slaughter of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, was not
In a report leaked to the Washington Post‘s David Ignatius, a liberal reporter at the Obama administration’s favorite newspaper, a “senior intelligence official” laid out the supposed timeline of events during the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi. The
The Daily Beast’s Eli Lake–who deserves a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on Benghazi–reported today that the State Department did not ask for military backup while the U.S. consulate was under attack on 9/11. That, together with other denials collected
Documents found by Foreign Policy in the wreckage of America’s consulate in Benghazi show that letters were being written from the consulate about “troubling” surveillance of the building by terrorist groups. One letter, written on September 11 and addressed to
Israel has expressed “deep concern” at a political breakthrough by an extremist party in Ukraine that is well known for its attacks on Jews and foreigners, and which managed to win a large number of parliamentary seats for the first
Reports suggest that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama didn’t see things the same on Benghazi. She wanted more security for diplomatic personnel, but Obama said no. Rush Limbaugh predicted as much when Clinton took the blame
