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Officials said the intelligence community has determined that Al Qaida was expanding its presence in northeastern Syria. They said an increasing number of Al Qaida agents and recruits were operating near the Iraqi border.
In a preview of his speech next week announcing his plan to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan.
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | To borrow a computer term, if Ayatollah Khomeini, Osama bin Laden, and Nidal Hasan represent Islamism 1.0, Recep Tayyip Erdogan (the prime minister of Turkey), Tariq Ramadan (a Swiss intellectual), and Keith Ellison (a U.S. congressman) represent Islamism 2.0. The former kill more people but the latter pose a greater threat to Western ...
Japan midfielder Yasuhito Endo was crowned Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Player of the Year at the annual awards on Tuesday.
BAGHDAD, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Iraq's beleaguered government appears to be seeking to whip up sectarian tensions ahead of planned parliamentary elections with televised confessions by alleged Saddam Hussein loyalists that they were behind Baghdad bombings that killed 153 people in October.
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Wednesday a 10-month moratorium of Israeli construction in the occupied West Bank, urging Palestinians to accept the offer and revive long-stalled peace negotiations. Israel would not st...
Ramallah - The Palestinian Authority quickly rejected Wednesday an Israeli decision to partially freeze settlement construction, insisting that the freeze should be comprehensive. Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu announced a freeze on new construct...
A grand jury in Philadelphia has indicted four men for an alleged plot to support the Lebanon-based terror group Hezbollah.
The government appears to be launching an ambitious effort to discredit its opponents and re-educate the country’s young and restive population.
Human Rights Watch founder Robert L. Bernstein has been roundly criticized for arguing that his own organization, which by its repeated reports suggests that Israel’s human rights record is so reprehensible as to warrant heightened condemnation, has unfairly demonized Israel.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- The pending non-permanent appointment of Lebanon to the U.N. Security Council could wreak havoc on U.S. efforts to sanction its enemies, a scholar said.
Briefing by Special Envoy for Middle East Peace George Mitchell George Mitchell Special Envoy for Middle East Peace Washington, DC November 25, 2009 MR. WOOD: Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the briefing. As promised, Senator Mitchell is here, and he is going to give you an update on the recent announcement by the Israeli Government with regard to settlements. So without further ado ...
Gamba Osaka midfielder Yasuhito Endo has been named AFC Player of the Year, but it was South Korea's night at the Asian football awards in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday.
I am a student at UC Berkeley. Last week there were widespread protests regarding pending student fee increases. Last Friday I was forced to abandon my biology lab and wait in the rain while authorities responded to multiple false fire alarms set off by protesters.
Federal authorities in Philadelphia announced charges yesterday against four men for their alleged participation in a two-year plot to funnel money and weapons to the terrorist group Hezbollah , the second local weapons indictment unsealed this week.
An Iraqi vice president has indicated he will veto an election law for a second time, deepening political uncertainty in a country struggling to recover from years of war.
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