'I Learned In Afghanistan That Everything I Thought I Knew About Humanity Was...
When I met Karim Delgado, we were both already out of the Marine Corps, though I felt I already knew him well from seeing his byline. A fellow combat correspondent, essentially a writer/photographer in...
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Hillary Clinton Is Absolutely Dominating The Middle East Right Now
As her tenure as Secretary of State draws to a close, Hillary Clinton is going on an absolute tear across the Middle East.She made a number of controversial comments during a foreign policy forum in...
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The 'Nastiest Town In Iraq' Is Working On A Very Cheap Helicopter
As Iraq buys up foreign arms and aircraft one man in a province northeast of Baghdad has taken an alternative approach to the billion dollar deals.The Associated Press reports Hatim Kadim Salman is...
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The Cover Of This Week's Marine Corps Times Could Offend A lot Of People
The Marine Times is not known for shying away from the occasionally risque cover — one can't help but remember their cover for the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell— and they didn't fail to impress with...
View ArticleEurope's New Stealth Drone Will Evade Radar While Carrying A Load Of...
Looking much like the U.S. X-47B currently on the USS Truman awaiting carrier trials, France's Dassault Aviation launched the nEUROn Saturday.The prototype stealth drone flew for 25 minutes and...
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'The Gates Of Hell' Are Opening Around Damascus As Rebels Close In On Assad
For days Syrian warplanes and artillery have been relentlessly bombing rebel-held positions on the outskirts of Damascus as they try to secure that area around the capital, Patrick J. McDonnell of The...
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Colombia Bombs FARC Rebels Despite Ongoing Peace Talks
Just days after closing the current round of peace talks, the Colombian government launched attacks against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.According to the Wall Street Journal, the...
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Polymer Lens Technology Could Give Troops 'Eagle Eyes' On The Battlefield
Anyone who's ever strapped on a set of military Night Vision Goggles knows that an aching neck is imminent.Michael Keller of the GE-sponsored blog Txchnologist reports that engineers have made a string...
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A Swiss Spy May Have Stolen Millions Of Classified CIA Documents
Secret information shared by U.S. and UK spy agencies may have been compromised when a senior IT technician for Switzerland's intelligence service (NBD) stole a massive amount of internal data, Mark...
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LAWYER: Bradley Manning's Treatment Is A Stain On US History
David Coombs, the civilian lawyer representing Bradley Manning at his court martial for supplying WikiLeaks with a trove of US state secrets, has described the soldier's treatment in solitary...
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Obama's Cadillac Is Basically A Tank
At a cost of over $300,000 and enough armor to stop an RPG, the President's ground vehicle is a very resilient ride.It looks like a Caddy STS on the outside, but on the inside it has everything the...
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Iranian TV Shows Captured US Drone
Despite U.S. Navy claims to the contrary, Iran claims to have brought down another American drone much like it did this time last year with the RQ-170 debacle.This time, Tehran claims they've capture a...
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Russian Diplomats: Bashar Al-Assad Has Lost All Hope Of Victory Or Escape
Russian diplomats who recently met with Bashar al-Assad about two weeks ago say the Syrian president has lost all hope of victory or escape, a Russian political analyst tells Anne Barnard and Ellen...
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Two Reasons Israel's New Settlement Plans Could Make A Two-State Solution...
Two Middle East analysts told the PBS Newshour that a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine will be all but impossible if Tel Aviv follows through with plans to build 3,000 new settlements in...
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Huge Egyptian Protests Force Morsi To Flee Presidential Palace
Thousands of Egyptian protesters marched on the presidential palace on Tuesday to protest President Mohamed Morsi's recent decree that gives him near-absolute power as well as a controversial draft of...
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The Incredibly Effective Surveillance Drone Iran Claims To Have Captured...
Iran today claimed to have captured another U.S. drone. Whether or not that's accurate remains to be seen, but what is true is that the ScanEagle drone was originally designed to help fisherman look...
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Iran Tells America To Recount Its Drones
Iran's Revolutionary Guards are telling the United States to "recount" the drones in its fleet as they insist that -- despite US denials -- they captured a small US unmanned spy plane over Gulf waters,...
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Syria's Al-Assad May Be Looking To Warm Sandy Beaches To Make His Final Escape
Russia and Patriot missilesRussia has urged Turkey not exaggerate the threat from Syria after Nato approved the deployment of Patriot missiles to Turkish-Syrian border.Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov...
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Four Afghan Youth Were 'Shot By The British While Drinking Tea'
British forces have been accused of killing four boys at close range in an operation in Afghanistan.A 12-year-old boy and three teenagers are alleged to have been shot dead as they were drinking tea...
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Bashar Al-Assad Bombs Own Capital As Rebels Close In On His Position
Warplanes on Wednesday pounded suburbs of Damascus as regime forces fought to reclaim rebel-held areas of the capital, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.The Britain-based watchdog, which...
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