Syria’s slide towards civil war
The BBC’s Paul Wood has spent harrowing days under fire in the Baba Amr area of Homs and here reports on citizens subjected to a relentless artillery barrage by government troops. Most of the...
Category: Wars and Rumors of Wars
Hutaree militia members face trial
(AP) DETROIT – Seven members of a Midwest militia accused of plotting to overthrow the government are set to stand trial, where jurors will decide whether federal authorities prevented an attack by homegrown extremists...
Israel accuses Iran of bombings in India, Georgia
JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister on Monday accused Iran of being behind a pair of car bombings against Israeli diplomatic targets in India and Georgia. Benjamin Netanyahu told a meeting of lawmakers from his...
Arms and men out of Libya fortify Mali rebellion
(Reuters) – Equipped with heavy weapons from Muammar Gaddafi’s looted arsenals, the Tuareg-led rebels who assaulted the town of Aguelhoc in northern Mali last month overwhelmed the remote garrison. Fighters hardened by combat in...
Syria raises specter of proxy conflict for U.S., Russia
(Reuters) – As the Obama administration weighs worst-case scenarios for Syria, one stands out: a civil war that develops into a proxy battle between Arabs and the West on one side, and Russia and...
Iran envoy: We could hit US forces anywhere in world
DUBAI — Iran is capable of hitting U.S. military forces anywhere in the world if attacked by the United States, its ambassador to Moscow was quoted as saying at a news conference on Wednesday....
“Bold Alligator 2012″ drills 20,000 troops on US East Coast for Persian Gulf action
Some 20,000 marines, seamen and air crews from half a dozen countries, a US nuclear aircraft carrier strike group and three US Marine gunship carriers are practicing an attack on a fictitious mechanized enemy...
US and Israel working together on Iran, says Obama
The US is working closely with Israel to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power, President Barack Obama has said. He told NBC he believed Israel had not yet decided how to deal with...
US closes embassy in Syria, pulls out diplomats
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration closed the U.S. Embassy in Damascus on Monday and pulled all American diplomats out of violence-wracked Syria as the U.S. stepped up pressure on President Bashar Assad to leave...
Why China, Russia won’t condemn Syrian regime
(CNN) — As international leaders express outrage over mass killings in Syria — and lament the inability to pass a U.N. Security Council resolution denouncing the Syrian regime — questions linger about the two...
