(AP) Syrian rebels seize control of a border crossingBy NEBI QENAAssociated PressAKCAKALE, TurkeyRebels seized control of a border crossing on the frontier with Turkey on Wednesday, pulling down the Syrian flag and sending a stream of jubilant people pouring across
The Obama Doctrine of pulling our troops out of Iraq has been a disaster; any hope the United States had that Iraq would become our ally is gone. Now Iraq is actually cooperating with our enemy Iran to fly military
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s military launched a surprise large-scale exercise on Wednesday on the occupied Golan Heights, testing its battle readiness amid tensions over Iran’s nuclear drive and civil war in Syria.
On the one-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street, the Occupy movement has triumphantly reported police arrested a photojournalist, failing to note the journalist is also openly an Occupy activist. Protesters started a Twitter hashtag to promote this meme: #journarrest. The gist
Fifty years ago, the Soviet Union put nuclear missiles in Cuba. History may be repeating itself in the Caribbean. Russian military officials have confirmed they are “considering” basing nuclear bombers in Cuba or Venezuela. They have been offered basing and
GENEVA —An increasing number of “foreign elements” including jihadis are now operating in Syria, an independent U.N. panel confirmed Monday in its first report to say that outside “terrorists” have joined a war spiraling out of control. The investigative panel
Republican VP candidate Paul Ryan considers Israel “our best ally” in the Middle East and asserts that the Obama administration’s treatment of the nation has signaled the opposite. Speaking at the Values Voter Summit on Friday, Ryan said the Obama admin
By VICTOR L. SIMPSONAssociated PressBEIRUTPope Benedict XVI appealed Saturday for religious freedom in the Middle East, calling it fundamental for stability in a region bloodied by sectarian strife. Benedict spoke on the second day of his visit to Lebanon, a
Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan addressed the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. on Friday and denounced Obama’s lack of “steady” and “consistent” leadership abroad “amid all these threats and dangers.” Across the world, anti-American Islamists
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Pope Benedict arrives in Lebanon on Friday to bring a message of peace to a region torn by civil war in neighboring Syria and strained by violent Islamist protests against the United States in Libya and Egypt.
Egyptian Islamists protesting a film they found disrespectful to Mohammed raised the flag of terror group Al-Qaeda over the U.S. embassy in Cairo Tuesday. A clearer photo of the flag comes courtesy of EPA’s Khaled Elfiqi: While several news outlets
Syrian troops on Tuesday pounded Aleppo to thwart a rebel advance in Syria’s second city, activists said, as Hollywood star Angelina Jolie visited a Jordanian camp for refugees from the conflict. Violence and bloodshed were reported in other parts of
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Syria’s Assad regime turns to ‘barrel bombs’ for more thorough extermination Australia sending illegal migrants to Nauru and Manus islands China’s Xi Jinping disappears, spurring rumors of accident or assassination Iran’s rial currency crashes
By NASSER SHIYOUKHI and DIAA HADIDAssociated PressHEBRON, West BankDays of Palestinian demonstrations against the high cost of living turned violent in a West Bank city on Monday as protesters smashed windows and attempted to storm a municipality building before clashing
Iran on Monday said Canada had a “neo-conservative extremist government” as it kept up a furious response to Ottawa’s decision last week to cut diplomatic ties. Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi used that description in an interview with the Iranian
A group of hackers calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army is claiming responsibility for a Sunday morning attack on the Al-Jazeera news agency. Via Al-Jazeera’s mobile text message news service, the hackers successfully disseminated falsified reports that there had been
(AP) UN chief urges rights officials to lead on SyriaBy JOHN HEILPRINAssociated PressGENEVAU.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world’s foremost human rights body on Monday to keep up the pressure on major powers to end the civil war and rights
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: A ‘long way to go’ in talks between Greece and EU troika Iraq: 100 dead in a wave of sectarian terrorist attacks France providing direct aid to rebel opposition in Syria How to start
According to a French surgeon treating fighters in Syria, foreign Islamists are pouring into the country, joining rebels to fight the regime of Bashar Al-Assad. Jacques Beres worked in a hospital in northern Syria; he explained that well over 6
(AP) Syria rebukes France for supporting rebelsBy JAMAL HALABYAssociated PressAMMAN, JordanSyria lashed out at France on Sunday for backing the rebels seeking to overthrow President Bashar Assad, saying Paris’ growing support for the opposition does nothing but undermine the mission
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com China backs down on forcing Hong Kong schools to teach ‘patriotism’ The ‘Arab Spring’ begins in West Bank as unemployment and prices soar Palestinian president Abbas to return to the U.N. on September 27
Russia said Saturday it would ask the UN Security Council to endorse a plan to end the raging violence in Syria, but the United States insisted that any resolution had to carry teeth. Russia has been the main diplomatic and
John Kerry, the despicably anti-American head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who is rumored to be a candidate to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, had the gall last night to speak of American exceptionalism as well as
Now, I know to expect this from the BBC who, at the London Olympics, did not list Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. I also know to expect it from, say, the Palestinian Authority. When I accompanied the Rev. Al Sharpton to
By MATTHEW LEEAssociated PressBANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, BruneiU.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday that her talks in China this week were useful despite highlighting sharp differences between Washington and Beijing over key international issues from Syria’s civil war to
