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THE ROVING EYE Obama's weapons-for-peace program By Pepe Escobar They looked like two dejected schoolboys in front of the headmaster by the end of the two-hour Putin-Obama summit at the sidelines of the Group of Eight meeting in Northern Ireland.

When Sarah Schulman's November 2011 op-ed on "pinkwashing" appeared in the New York Times , I had a conflicted reaction.

NOT only is President Obama leading from behind, now he's leading from behind Bill Clinton.

A picture of Patriot missile systems, like those that will be deployed in the north of Jordan.

Marines of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit's amphibious assault vehicle platoon had its first bilateral training event of Exercise Eager Lion 2013 here June 12, conducting a live-fire shoot in their AAVs with members of the Jordanian armed forces in their own light armored mechanized vehicles.

The hearing will begin at 11 a.m. in the county Legislature chambers, on the fourth floor of the Onondaga County Courthouse.

President Barack Obama authorized his administration to provide arms to rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, officials briefed on the decision said Thursday, after the White House said it had confirmed that Damascus used chemical weapons in the country's civil war.

Ad-hominem excuses for argument are rife on the internet, where some writers seem stupid enough to deserve the insults, and others are victims of underserved personal attacks.

Mesa Grande Taqueria should have its Township 5 restaurant open sometime in the next year.

Jordan announced on Sunday the start of the "Eager Lion" military exercises with the participation of 8,000 soldiers from 19 Arab and Western countries, Al Arabiya reports.

Lebanese troops blocked streets in Beirut with tanks and barbed wire for several hours on Sunday after the killing of a protester outside the Iranian embassy raised factional tensions already inflamed by the war in Syria.

"I didn't know what war meant," she recalled. More than four decades later, the Palestinian reporter is still grappling with the meaning of what is known as the Six-Day War.

An independent panel of scientists that spent two years reviewing the U.S. government's controversial management of wild horses is poised to release a series of recommendations to combat skyrocketing costs and... A scathing independent scientific review of wild horse roundups in the West concludes the U.S. government should likely instead let ... (more)

A Bulgarian national was among the total of 280 militants fighting on the side of the opposition that have been killed in Syria over the last 11 months.

Firefighters from Texas and across the nation are joining their colleagues in Houston at a memorial service for four Houston firefighters killed last week in a five-alarm motel fire.

New reports that the French confirmed the use of sarin gas in Syria triggered discussions here at the meeting of NATO defense ministers, but the alliance is still refusing to make any contingency plans for operations... New reports that the French confirmed the use of sarin gas in Syria triggered discussions here on the sidelines of the meeting of ... (more)

Firefighters from Texas and across the nation are joining their colleagues in Houston at a memorial service for four Houston firefighters killed last week in a five-alarm motel fire.

Visitors to some news websites in Jordan are greeted with the message "The requested URL is banned at the request of the telecommunication regulatory commission."

Forty-five years ago, on June 6, 1968, New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy died of gunshot wounds.

Onondaga Community College interim president Margaret "Meg" O'Connell today asked county lawmakers for a 3 percent increase in funding for next year's operating budget.