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There is another classic case of the UN trying to emasculate the United States’ power. The UN is launching an investigation into the use of drones for strikes in warfare. The drones are highly successful in striking opposing forces without

Reports indicate that Marine General James Mattis is being forced out of CENTCOM for questioning certain aspects of the Obama administration’s Middle East policy. In particular, it appears his questions surrounding the U.S. response to Iran’s nuclear ambitions drew the

The administration of President Barack Obama is completing a counterterrorism manual that will establish clear rules for targeted-killing operations, The Washington Post reported. But citing unnamed US officials, the newspaper said the guidebook would contain a major exemption for the

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Syria: Missile strike kills 80 students taking exams at University of Aleppo Report: State Dept. believes Syria used chemical weapons New Kashmir clash kills Pakistani soldier Syria: Missile strike kills 80 students taking exams

By ZARAR KHANAssociated PressISLAMABADProtesters at an anti-government rally have clashed with police in the Pakistani capital. Television footage showed police shooting into the air to push back protesters early Tuesday. The demonstration was led by a cleric who recently returned

Iran is on track to be able to produce material for at least one nuclear bomb by mid-2014 as sanctions hit its economy but fail to stop the atomic program, a US think tank said Monday. The Institute for Science

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This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Pakistan: Hundreds of casualties in multiple suicide bombings Pakistan’s commitment to fighting terrorism is in question Syria accuses U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi of ‘flagrant bias’ Putin postpones Russia’s US-adoption ban until 2014 U.N. Security

(AP) Bombings kill 115 people in PakistanBy ABDUL SATTAR and SHIRIN ZADAAssociated PressQUETTA, PakistanA series of bombings in different parts of Pakistan killed 115 people on Thursday, including 81 who died in a sectarian attack on a bustling billiard hall

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: New fighting between India and Pakistan in Kashmir Switzerland’s Wegelin bank to close after U.S. indictment Three scenarios for an accidental South China Sea war New fighting between India and Pakistan in Kashmir India

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Syria’s Assad promises new violence in public speech Brookings Institute freaks out over ‘extremism’ and fiscal cliff India and Pakistan armies clash in Kashmir Syria’s Assad promises new violence in public speech Bashar al-Assad

Sporting a long leather coat and western jeans under a headscarf, Soosan Feroz looks like many modern women in Kabul. But she is a surprising new phenomenon in this conservative Islamic country — the nation’s first female rapper. Her lyrics

(AP) Pakistan says US drones kill senior Taliban figureBy RASOOL DAWAR and ISHTIAQ MAHSUDAssociated PressPESHAWAR, PakistanTwo U.S. drone strikes on northwest Pakistan killed a senior Taliban commander who fought American forces in Afghanistan but had a truce with the Pakistani

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: German press criticizes the ‘fiscal cliff’ bill as ‘tiresome farce’ Pakistan has measles surge as health workers are murdered West Bank Palestinians riot over electricity bills More left wing violence, this time over gun

(AP) Gunmen kill 5 female teachers in PakistanBy RIAZ KHANAssociated PressPESHAWAR, PakistanGunmen in northwest Pakistan killed five female teachers and two aid workers on Tuesday in an ambush on a van carrying workers home from their jobs at a community

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(Reuters) – Pakistani militants, who have escalated attacks in recent weeks, killed at least 41 people in two separate incidents, officials said on Sunday, challenging assertions that military offensives have broken the back of hardline Islamist groups. The United States

The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently released its annual Global Gender Gap Report. Faculty from Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley collaborated on the project which ranks Cuba, Nicaragua, and the Philippines ahead of the United States as

The five-year anniversary of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination will bring much more to Pakistan than remembrances and vigils for the slain reformer. Her only son will use the anniversary to enter politics himself and carry on his mother’s mission. Bilawal Bhutto

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Benazir Bhutto’s son launches political career in midst of Pakistan’s political chaos Pakistan has a new ‘hope and change’ candidate, Maulana Tahirul Qadri Benazir Bhutto’s son launches political career in midst of Pakistan’s political

(Reuters) – The 24-year-old only son of assassinated former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is due to launch his political career on Thursday, the fifth anniversary of his mother’s death. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is among hundreds of high-ranking Pakistani officials,

(AP) Afghan bomber attacks near major US baseBy AMIR SHAHThe Associated PressKABUL, AfghanistanA vehicle driven by a suicide bomber exploded at the gate of a major U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing the attacker and three Afghans,

A surge of violence in northwest Pakistan culminating in the assassination of a senior provincial minister has raised fears of a renewed Taliban campaign that could threaten national elections, analysts say. The province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the adjacent Federally-Administered

(AP) Afghan policewoman kills US adviser in KabulBy DENIS D. GRAYAssociated PressKABUL, AfghanistanAn Afghan policewoman shot and killed an American adviser outside the police headquarters in Kabul on Monday, the latest in a rising tide of insider attacks by Afghans

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By DONNA CASSATAAssociated PressWASHINGTON The movie “Zero Dark Thirty” suggests the CIA’s harsh interrogation techniques led the U.S. to Osama bin Laden. Sen. John McCain watched the movie Monday night and says it left him sick – because it’s wrong.

Gunmen on motorbikes shot dead five female Pakistani polio vaccination workers on Tuesday, police said, highlighting resistance to the country’s immunisation campaign. Four were killed in three different incidents in the sprawling port city and the fifth in the northwestern

A source within a Scout Cavalry Platoon with boots on the ground in Afghanistan not only corroborated a recent Pentagon report blaming Pakistan for deteriorating conditions in Afghanistan but told Breitbart News it understates the trouble caused by Pakistan’s porous

Despite an easing of tensions with the United States, Pakistan is persistently undermining security in Afghanistan by permitting safe havens for insurgents, a Pentagon report said. In a biannual war assessment mandated by Congress, the Defense Department said that the

The new film “Zero Dark Thirty” shows U.S. interrogators using a variety of methods, from sleep deprivation to waterboarding, to get vital information out of terrorist detainees. And it worked, according to the film, which illustrates the hunt for Osama

(AP) Pakistan: US drone kills senior al-Qaida leaderBy RASOOL DAWARAssociated PressPESHAWAR, PakistanPakistani intelligence officials say a U.S. drone strike has killed a senior al-Qaida leader near the Afghan border. The three officials say Sheikh Khalid bin Abdel Rehman al-Hussainan, also

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The UN General Assembly approved a resolution on Monday by a vote of 174-6 that would require Israel to open its nuclear program to inspection “without further delay.” The only countries voting against it were the U.S., Canada, Marshall Islands,

(AP) Iran claims capture of another US droneBy ALI AKBAR DAREINIAssociated PressTEHRAN, IranIran’s state TV said Tuesday that the country’s Revolutionary Guard has captured a U.S. drone after it entered Iranian airspace over the Persian Gulf. The report quoted the

A suicide bomber on Tuesday rammed his explosive-laden car into a checkpoint outside a police station in northwestern Pakistan, wounding six people, police said. The attack took place at a police station outside the restive town of Bannu bordering the