(multimedia) State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said Tuesday that reports of ballistic missiles being test firing in Iran is not a ‘positive development.’ Nuland says that Iran continues to violate United Nations security council...
(multimedia) The United States has reportedly bolstered its air and naval presence in the Persian Gulf as Iran is in the middle of a three day series of missile tests aimed at mock foreign...
(Reuters) – Iran said on Tuesday it had successfully tested medium-range missiles capable of hitting Israel in response to threats of military action against the country, Iranian media reported. Israel says it could attack Iran if...
Islamist militants in Mali have attacked one of the most famous mosques in the historic city of Timbuktu, residents say. Armed men broke down the door of the 15th-Century Sidi Yahia mosque, a resident...
The claim by Gen Mustafa al-Sheikh, head of the FSA’s military council, could not be independently confirmed, but it suggested that the Syrian army was responding to a Turkish military build-up on the border....
(Reuters) – Iran expects to equip its ships in the Strait of Hormuz soon with shorter-range missiles, a Revolutionary Guards commander was quoted as saying, in the latest apparent warning to the West not to attack...
(Reuters) – Rebel forces attacked Syria’s main court in central Damascus on Thursday, state television said, while Turkey deployed troops and anti-aircraft rocket launchers to the Syrian border, building pressure on President Bashar al-Assad....
(multimedia) The Turkish military mobilized large numbers of reinforcements from its eastern provinces to the Syrian border on Tuesday, amid rising tension with Damascus, after the downing by Syria of a Turkish Air Force...
Three of Africa’s largest militant Islamist groups are trying to co-ordinate their efforts, the head of the US Africa Command has warned. Gen Carter Ham said in particular North African al-Qaeda in the Islamic...
(multimedia) The UK’s top spy has warned that a new terror threat is brewing. The head of MI5 said the uprisings in the Middle East have created new militant training camps. Up to 200 extremists...
