Just months after the killings of Osama bin Laden and radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, U.S. intelligence officials are trying to assess just how dangerous al-Qaida still is. They seem to agree that core al-Qaida — the group that launched the [...]
A leaked plan from the German government proposes a eurozone “budget commissioner” to take control of Greece’s tax and spending, reports say. The Financial Times, which has a copy of the plan, calls it an “extraordinary extension” of EU control. [...]
The illegal gambling game in Brazil known as jogo do bicho, or the animal game, occupies an important, if shady, place in popular culture. In the run-up to Carnival in February, Rio de Janeiro police have been targeting alleged gambling [...]
Spain’s unemployment figure passed the five million mark in the last quarter of 2011, official figures show. The National Statistics Institute said 5.3 million people were out of work at the end of December, up from 4.9 million in the [...]
Despite areas of difference and rivalries between Moscow and Tehran, ties between the two countries based on common interests have developed significantly. Both Russia and Iran are both major energy exporters, they have deeply seated interests in the South Caucasus. They [...]
By JOHN WENDLE / TIME Magazine A large crystal chandelier cast a weak glow over U.S. special envoy Marc Grossman and Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Jawed Ludin as they talked up the results of the envoys’ two days of meetings [...]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. is paying six times as much to send war supplies to troops in Afghanistan through alternate routes after Pakistan’s punitive decision in November to close border crossings to NATO convoys, the Associated Press has learned. Islamabad [...]
Co-ordinated attacks by Islamist militants in the northern Nigerian city of Kano on Friday killed about 150 people, witnesses and reports say. Hospitals and mortuaries are struggling to deal with the numbers of killed and injured still arriving. A series [...]
WASHINGTON: US military trainers will be invited back into Pakistan “as early as April or May,” but Pakistan has ruled out allowing CIA drones back into the country, US media reported. Relations between the two nations have been at an [...]
An Isaf spokesman said the crash occurred late on Thursday local time. — File photo WASHINGTON: Six US service personnel were killed in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, officials said, indicating the incident was not believed to [...]
Pakistan shut two border crossings for Nato containers after a US air strike killed at least 23 soldiers in November. PHOTO: AFP Sending war supplies to Afghanistan is six times more expensive than before for the United States due of [...]
Norwegian domestic intelligence chief Janne Kristiansen speaks during an interview at the Police Security Service headquarters in Oslo on July 27, 2011.—AFP OSLO: Norway’s internal security chief resigned late on Wednesday after revealing confidential information that the country had intelligence [...]
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia speaks during the opening session at the London Cyberspace Conference in London. Wikipedia will black out the English language version of its website on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. – Photo by AP WASHINGTON: Wikipedia went [...]
Aviation Week’s Defense Technology International has compiled a summary of all the current and probable conflicts of 2012, so I made this map*. The only conflict that is not in this map is the incoming Obama-Romney nuclear war. The world doesn’t seem like [...]
US government “leadership” violates all Americans by constantly violating war law won by our families through two world wars. The US was the primary author of current war law, bound by treaty and Constitutional Law under Article 6 as the US’ supreme law. War law states [...]
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan showed it openly to the world that it is a well-organized political power besides being a military power. It has ruled the country successfully and preserves the right and might of each and every decision [...]
US President Barack Obama is busy aligning Middle East allies with the next US steps on Iran. Contributing to the mounting sense in Washington of an approaching US-Iranian confrontation, the Pentagon is substantially building up its combat power around Iran, stationing nearly 15,000 troops in Kuwait – [...]
A series of CIA memos describes how Israeli Mossad agents posed as American spies to recruit members of the terrorist organization Jundallah to fight their covert war against Iran. Buried deep in the archives of America’s intelligence services are a [...]
They say the subconscious is more powerful than the conscious. Usually, people are more influenced by their innate subconscious desires or intent than a rational and planned decision. This aspect of human nature is heavily influenced by your daily activity. [...]
In footage posted on YouTube and seen by the website TMZ four men in combat fatigues are seen laughing and joking as they apparently relieve themselves over three corpses that lie at their feet. After seemingly checking to be sure no one [...]
