Mar 20, 2012 (AP) BAGHDAD – Bombings and shootings across Iraq killed 46 people on Tuesday, striking at police and Shiite pilgrims in a torrent of violence that officials had dreaded in the run-up to a Baghdad meeting of the Arab world’s top leaders, which the government hoped would showcase the nation’s stability.  There was [...]

By KIRIT RADIA (@KiritRadia_ABC) and RYM MOMTAZ MOSCOW, Russia, March 19, 2012 A Russian military unit has arrived in Syria, according to Russian news reports, a development that a United Nations Security Council source told ABC News was “a bomb” certain to have serious repercussions. Russia, one of President Bashar al-Assad’s strongest allies despite international [...]

By MARK MAZZETTI and THOM SHANKER Published: March 19, 2012 WASHINGTON — A classified war simulation held this month to assess the repercussions of an Israeli attack on Iran forecasts that the strike would lead to a wider regional war, which could draw in the United States and leave hundreds of Americans dead, according to [...]

Published March 19, 2012 FoxNews.com TOULOUSE, France –  A gunman opened fire outside of a Jewish school in the southwestern French city of Toulouse Monday, killing three children and one teacher. Prosecutor Michel Valet said a 30-year-old man and his 3-year-old and 6-year-old sons were killed in the attack just before classes started at the [...]

Mar 19, 2012 (CBS/AP) BEIRUT – Syrian security forces clashed Monday with gunmen in an upscale neighborhood of the capital Damascus that is home to embassies and senior officials in one of the worst confrontations in the tightly-controlled city center in the country’s yearlong uprising. At least three people were killed.  The clash deep in [...]

By Arnold Ahlert (Archive) · Sunday, March 18, 2012 The EU puts a lockdown on the Mullahs’ economic transactions — but it will only buy time. On Thursday, the European Union (EU) ordered the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) to block Iranian banks currently subjected to EU sanctions from using their service. SWIFT is a financial transaction [...]

March 18, 2012 Rick Moran Despite pressure from China and the west, North Korea plans to launch a ballistic missile that will carry a satellite into space. Reuters:   Political analysts say the launch, which would violate U.N. resolutions on the heavily sanctioned state, is aimed at boosting the legitimacy of its young new ruler [...]

Published March 18, 2012 Associated Press SANAA, Yemen –  Two gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead early Sunday an American teacher working at a language institute in a central Yemeni city, the region’s provincial governor said. Hamoud al-Sufi said the teacher was shot in his car in Taez city. He did not have details on [...]

Mar 17, 2012 Saudi Arabia is delivering military equipment to Syrian rebels in an effort to stop bloodshed by President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, a top Arab diplomat said on Saturday. “Saudi military equipment is on its way to Jordan to arm the Free Syrian Army,” the diplomat told AFP on condition of anonymity. “This is [...]

Mar 17, 2012 By ALI AKBAR DAREINI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s parliament speaker on Saturday compared Israel to a barking dog that won’t dare attack the Islamic republic over its controversial nuclear program. “They make a lot of fuss about it but don’t dare to attack Iran,” Ali Larijani said of Israel. [...]