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Top foreign policy advisers for the Obama and Romney campaigns laid out contrasting visions during a Tuesday debate at the Brookings Institution, dueling on issues ranging from America's role in Syria to a new era in relations with Russia.

Syria is one of the few countries on the planet to have a large stockpile of some of the deadliest substances known to man. What's it doing with them now?

Kellie Pickler went patriotic for Maxim magazine's latest cover and photos spread in its annual Salute to the Military issue.

This time, China's bid is unlikely to be blocked by the government, as its attempted takeover of Unocal was seven years ago

The Islamic State of Iraq, an Al-Qaeda affiliate, said it is honoring the month of Ramadan with “a new blessed foray” of violence in the country, claiming responsibility for Monday’s attacks that killed at least 116, wounded at least 300.

KRG is seeking to combine the various Kurdish factions in Syria under one unified umbrella.

Britain has contingency plans to send a powerful fleet to Syria; France may even send an aircraft carrier; Russia is sending 11 ships; and then there are the Americans. Are they all there just to bring back any evacuated civilians?

As non-Persians, they have long faced discrimination, particularly with respect to employment, housing, and civil rights.

The Syrian army's response to the rebel siege of Damascus has created military-control vacuums in other parts of the country that have been exploited by rebel forces.

A fancy new aircraft upgrade for the Marines is causing a backlash in Japan and exposing years of tensions over U.S. forces in the country.

Romney can invoke anemic monthly job numbers to contend that Obama's domestic policies have failed. But he faces a more difficult task in critiquing how the Obama administration's policies have unfolded outside of America's borders.

Car bombs in two towns south of Baghdad and in the Shia holy city of Najaf killed a total of 20 people on Sunday and wounded 80.

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Luis Walker was convicted in a military court Friday on charges that included rape, aggravated sexual contact, and aggravated sexual assault, according to the Associated Press. Walker was convicted on a total of 28 counts.

Iraqi troops mobilized to seal border crossings into Syria on Friday after Syrian rebels occupied government posts on their own side of the border.

It seems that we witness a similar massacre about once a year or so in the U.S.

As of July 18, 120,000 Syrian refugees (perhaps many more) have also sought protection in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey.

A senior Iraqi official told the New York Times that all four of the country's crossings into Syria have now been closed, because the rebels have seized the Syrian sides of them.

Rebels seized control of parts of Syria's international borders Thursday and torched the main police headquarters in the heart of old Damascus, advancing relentlessly after the assassination of President Bashar al-Assad's closest lieutenants.

A retired member of the Navy's elite SEAL Team 6 claims Obama had endangered the military's special operations forces and has taken too much credit for the death of Osama bin Laden.

In an echo from the final weeks of Saddam Hussein's reign in Iraq in 2003, Syrian President Bashar al Assad has reportedly retreated to his tribal homeland as rebels advance on Damascus.

Seventeen months into the Syrian crisis, with numerous worsening instances of blood-chilling violence and massacre, everything still stays the same because the big players are waiting for the right moment to intervene.