Israel Makes Indirect Admission to Air Strike in Syria
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(MUNICH) — Israel finally delivered a public yet coy statement on Sunday about last week’s assault on a truck convoy inside Syria.At a security conference in Munich, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak insisted he could not “add …
Sarai Sierra: Body of Missing American Mom Reportedly Found in Turkey
Courtesy Sarai Sierra’s family(NEW YORK) — The body of an American woman who went missing while on a solo trip to Turkey has been found in Istanbul, and nine people have been held for questioning, according to local media. Sarai Sierra, 33, was last h…
Security Guard Killed from Bombing Outside of the US Embassy in Turkey Identified
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(ANKARA, Turkey) — U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Francis Ricciardone said on Saturday that Mustafa Akarsu died a hero for protecting the U.S. embassy and saved his American and Turkish colleagues from a suicide bomber. Akarsu was the…
Syria and Allies Condemn Israeli Air Strike
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — There was still no word from the Israeli government Thursday confirming an air strike earlier in the week that targeted a truck convoy in Syria that U.S. officials say was carrying missiles to the Hezbollah in Lebano…
Israel and Syria Differ on Target of Israeli Air Strike
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(DAMASCUS, Syria) — In spite of evidence to the contrary, the Syrian government on Wednesday accused Israel of conducting an air strike against one of its military facilities in Damascus the day before.According to a report by Sy…
Egyptian Protestors Kill 30 Due to Death Penalty Sentences Given to Violent Soccer Fans
Stockbyte/Thinkstock(CAIRO) — At least 30 people are reported dead and more than 300 are injured after violent protestors went to the streets after death sentences were given to soccer fans in connection with last February’s soccer stadium violent ram…
Netanyahu Faces New Challenges After Disappointing Election Results
GALI TIBBON/AFP/GettyImages(JERUSALEM) — Voters in Israel have surprised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but not in a way he would have preferred.While Netanyahu will stay his country’s leader — as was expected — his right-wing Likud-Beiteinu bloc…
Israelis Voting Tuesday in General Election
Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images(JERUSALEM) — As President Obama begins his second term, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won’t know until later Tuesday if he’ll continue as his country’s leader.Israelis are going to the polls in a general election …
Algerian Hostage Crisis: Reported Tape of Terrorists Emerges
Hemera/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Algerian TV has broadcast what it says is audiotape of terrorists at the In Amenas gas plant threatening to blow up the facility and “slaughter” U.S. hostages unless 100 imprisoned “comrades” are released, and also claimi…
Algeria Hostage Crisis: Seven Americans Escaped, One Dead, Fate of Two Uncertain
ABC News(NEW YORK) — The four-day hostage crisis at an Algerian natural gas plant has left at least one American dead, and the fate of two more is of growing concern, but seven Americans were among the dozens of Westerners who escaped unharmed. The si…
Report: US Embassy in Kabul ‘Dangerously Vulnerable’ to Attack
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(KABUL, Afghanistan) — The U.S. Embassy compound in Kabul is “dangerously vulnerable to a new attack,” according to a new report issued Friday by an independent watchdog group that monitors government spending and mis…
King Abdullah Appoints Women to Advisory Council in Saudi Arabia
FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/GettyImages(RIYADH, Saudia Arabia) — For the first time in Saudia Arabia, women have been named to the king’s advisory body known as the Shura Council. It has no legislative power, but the move is politically significant in the con…
Navy Sub Goes Bump in the Night and Loses Its Periscope
File photo – US Navy(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Navy’s nuclear submarine USS Jacksonville was damaged early Thursday in the Persian Gulf when one of its two periscopes was struck by an unidentified vessel.No one was hurt in the early-morning inciden…
US Ground Troops Could Help Secure Syrian Chemical Sites Only in Peaceful Situation, Says Defense Chief
Alessio Romenzi/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — At his news conference Thursday, Defense Secretary Panetta said the concern now about Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile is what to do with them should the Assad regime fall. Panetta said U.S….
Karzai in Washington to Discuss US Military Future in Afghanistan
Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan arrived at the Pentagon Thursday for the first in a series of discussions with senior American leaders about the future of the U.S. military role in Afghanistan after American …
Israel Building Fence Along Border with Syria
Antenna Audio, Inc./Getty Images(JERUSALEM) — Israel has plans to build a fence along the 40-mile stretch of the Golan Heights to assure that the violence in Syria doesn’t affect its own country.While there have been virtually no problems up to now, I…
New Pictures of Ex-FBI Agent Robert Levinson Kidnapped in Iran
The family of Robert Levinson has released new images of the former FBI agent, who was kidnapped in Iran in 2007. (The Levinson Family(NEW YORK) — The family of a former FBI agent who was kidnapped in Iran has released a new series of images of the 64…
Obama, Karzai to Meet Friday on Afghan Transition
MANDEL NGAN/AFP/GettyImages(WASHINGTON) — President Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai will meet at the White House Friday to discuss the future of the U.S.-Afghan relationship as the Obama administration readies to draw down its remaining forces…
Smuggled Gaza-Bound Missiles US Made? Maybe Not
MAJDI FATHI/AFP/Getty Images(CAIRO, Egypt) — Egyptian authorities say that the six anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles they seized from alleged smugglers headed for Gaza were of U.S. origin – but weapons proliferation experts cast doubt on the …
NGO Head: CIA Shares Blame for Murdered Health Workers
SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Two days after gunmen killed seven of his employees, the head of a Pakistani aid organization blamed their deaths not only on the militants who pulled the trigger, but also on America’s Central Intelligence Age…