Army general Martin Dempsey, a warrior-scholar who commanded troops in the Iraq war, was nominated as the top U.S. military officer by President Barack Obama on Monday.
President Obama laid a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery and gave a speech praising the sacrifices of American soldiers this morning.
President Barrack Obama honored the fallen soldiers in today's Memorial Day speech in Arlington National Cemetery. His speech remembered those who gave their life for America and also recognized the families and veterans of those beloved heroes. The country is at debt to the fallen heroes as President Obama's speech is presented below:
President Obama announced today the new head chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to be US Army Chief General Martin Dempsey who will replace Admiral Mike Mullen.
Close on the heels of Lockheed Martin admitting that it had been hacked, it has emerged that the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) has been hacked and login and password information pertaining to employees as well as outside users of the site have been compromised.
Monday, May 30. Today is Memorial Day, a time to remember the sacrifices made by our brave soldiers serving our country.
Sitting in his reed meeting house in what was once Iraq's marshes, sheikh Rashash al-Imara warns of potential trouble if his poor tribesmen are driven off their land by foreign companies digging for oil.
More than two months ago on March 21, demonstrators in Daraa set fire to the ruling Baath Party’s headquarters and government buildings. Police officials started gunning down the crowd reportedly killing hundreds by March 24. The total may have exceeded 5,000 now, reports say.
U.S. oil prices were well off early highs on Friday after data showed U.S. home sales plunged in April, adding to the latest crop of weak economic signals, and wiping away most of the day's early gains sparked by a weaker dollar.
Facebook announced it has hired a former Bush administration staffer to head its Washington, D.C. office, deepening the company's ties to the political establishment.
The bill dealing with the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya gave rise to a heated debate as lawmakers voiced frustration over the lack of an end in sight after 10 years of war, a Reuters report stated on Wednesday.
US Lawmakers sent a clear warning to President Barack Obama about growing exhaustion over the war in Afghanistan on Thursday as they passed a defense policy bill authorizing $690 billion in military spending for the 2012 fiscal year reported Reuters on Thursday.
The West is bracing for long military operations in Libya to help end conflict there, U.S. President Barack Obama told the British parliament on Wednesday.
This is the full text of U.S. President Barack Obama's speech to both UK houses of parliament.
In the run-up to Turkey’s national elections next month, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is seeking the support of a rather unusual group – the country’s Kurdish minority population.
Aren't you at all curious about who's behind this lynching by media scam? This is an all-out, no-holds-barred, steel-cage, take-down. The big boys save that kind of action for the worst offenders, that is, for the insiders who have broken Omerta or wandered off the reservation. Even Bernie Madoff was allowed to stay in his $7 million Park Avenue penthouse.
At least 27 people were killed and around a hundred wounded when a bomb hidden in a car exploded in a parking lot outside the main police offices in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq on Thursday.
Here is the White House text of President Barack Obama‘s speech on the Middle East, as prepared for delivery.
Battling all objections from Iraq, the first film adaptation of controversial author Salman Rushdie's “Booker of Bookers novel Midnight's Children has finished shooting in Sri Lanka.
At least 24 people were killed and 80 injured in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk in three different bombing incidents on Thursday.
There are two carved-in-granite long-term economic trends; one of them being the decline of the dollar and the other one being war. I think those are locked in, and so I recommend people buy investments that do well during wartime or during periods of currency debasement, which we have.
Hillary, in an unprecedented act of hypocrisy, denounced China for human rights violations. This from a country that has violated the human rights of millions of victims in our own time in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, secret CIA prisons dotted all over the planet, in US courts of law, and in the arrests and seizure of documents of American war protestors.
