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A bit of nose-thumbing at Washington is a long Israeli tradition. But what began weeks ago as a seeming breach of protocol — House Speaker John A. Boehner inviting Netanyahu to address lawmakers without first clearing it with the White House, and the prime minister pressing ahead despite Obama's evident displeasure — has grown into what some veteran diplomatic observers are describing as a full-blown threat to the staunch support that Washington has long offered Israel in the international arena.
A retired Pakistani general who previously led the country’s top intelligence agency is suggesting publicly that his country knew about Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts before the U.S. raid that killed him in May 2011.
ran marked the anniversary of its 1979 Islamic Revolution on Wednesday with massive rallies, with many chanting against the U.S. and Israel as the country tries to reach a permanent deal with world powers over its contested nuclear program.
With threats on its northern Iraqi border and, now, on its southern Yemeni border, Saudi Arabia sees its relationships in Yemen as an increasingly important protective measure. In response to the unrest in Yemen that dates back to the 2011 Arab uprisings, Saudi Arabia has increased military checkpoints and patrols on its border with Yemen and accelerated work on their high-tech, 1,770 kilometer (1,100 mile) border fence, which will stretch from the Red Sea in the west to Oman in the east. The kingdom’s attempt to physically insulate itself from the chaos engulfing its northern and southern neighbors has made it the largest border fence market in the world.
Jordan plays a vital role in U.S. policy in the Middle East. The kingdom is the third-largest recipient of U.S. military and economic assistance in the world, and Washington has deployed an F-16 fighter squadron and a battery of Patriot missiles to prevent a spillover of the war raging in neighboring Syria. Jordanian officials say about 1,600 U.S. servicemembers are based in the country.
Under the still-evolving plans, Army Gen. John F. Campbell, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, could be given greater latitude to determine the pace of the drawdown in 2015 as foreign forces scramble to ensure Afghan troops are capable of battling Taliban insurgents on their own, the officials said.
Nick Rasmussen, chief of the National Counterterrorism Center, said the rate of foreign fighter travel to Syria is without precedent, far exceeding the rate of foreigners who went to wage jihad in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen or Somalia at any other point in the past 20 years.
In its annual five-year oil market outlook, the IEA, which is the energy agency of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), said that the rise of the United States as a heavyweight crude producer, OPEC’s abdication of its historical role as the arbiter of world oil supply, and sluggish oil demand growth worldwide will have big implications for oil producing and consuming countries alike.
The center represents the latest step in a broader push by the White House to better protect national security and corporate interests from malicious hackers, a concern that metastasized following the Sony Pictures hack last Thanksgiving. It was formally announced by Lisa Monaco, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, at an event at the Wilson Center in Washington on Tuesday afternoon.
Rauf, who was killed along with seven others in a U.S. drone strike on Monday, and detainees like him who have returned to the battlefield are complicating President Barack Obama's hopes of closing the detention center for terrorism suspects on the U.S. Navy base in Cuba. The administration says the prison is costly, damages America's relationship with key allies and provides extremists a propaganda tool to woo recruits.
