U.S. Air Strikes on Syria Would Face Formidable Obstacles
American forces face formidable challenges as President Barack Obama considers an air assault on Islamist fighters in Syria, including intelligence gaps on potential targets, concerns about Syria’s air...
View ArticleUkraine Leader Accuses Russia as ‘15,000 Russian Soldiers Join Separatists'
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that Russian forces had been deployed in Ukrainian territory amid claims that around 15,000 Russian soldiers have been sent to the Donetsk region. Poroshenko...
View ArticleAirstrikes Might Not Be Enough to Defeat ISIS
As United States airstrikes continue over Iraq and are expected to be launched over Syrian territory, they may prove ineffective against mines, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and roadside bombs...
View ArticleArmoured Column Seen in South Russia Near Border With Ukraine
A Reuters reporter saw on Thursday a column of armoured vehicles and dust-covered troops, one of them with an injured face, driving through the Russian steppe just across the border from a part of...
View ArticleWhy It's Already Legal for Obama to Take On Climate Change Without Congress
News broke Wednesday that the Obama administration may propose a “politically binding” climate agreement at upcoming United Nations talks that would bypass the U.S. Senate, where the climate accord...
View ArticleIslamic State Executes Dozens of Syrian Army Soldiers
Islamic State fighters have executed dozens of members of the Syrian army they captured after seizing an air base in the northeast of the country, a group monitoring the violence said on...
View ArticleAilina Tsarnaeva, Sister of Accused Boston Marathon Bombers, in Custody...
The sister of suspected Boston Marathon bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Ailina Tsarnaeva, is in custody after she allegedly made bomb threats over the phone to her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend....
View ArticleUN: 43 Golan Heights Peacekeepers Detained by Syrian Rebels
Dozens of United Nations peacekeepers have been taken prisoner by an armed group battling Syrian government forces on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights.Forty-three peacekeepers from the U.N.’s...
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How to Beat the Islamic State
The lights are on 24/7 in the CIA’s Iraq Operations Group these days, with real-time spy satellite imagery, electronic intercepts and drone videos pouring in from Iraq and Syria, along with...
View ArticleMartin Is a Punk: Scorsese to Direct Ramones Biopic
Martin Scorsese has been tapped to direct a dramatized biopic about seminal New York punk foursome the Ramones, according to Billboard. The acclaimed filmmaker hopes to release the film in 2016 to...
View Article'Call of Duty' Creators Collaborated with Pentagon Adviser in Upcoming Videogame
In an attempt to create a more authentic in-game experience in an eagerly anticipated instalment of the Call of Duty franchise, developer Sledgehammer Games sought advice from a "scenario planner" from...
View ArticleZapping Your Brain With TDCS Could Help You Lose Weight
Eat protein and ditch the carbohydrates. Eat what you like for five days and fast for two. Live on grapefruit alone. Or cabbage soup. So many of us have tried innumerable diets over the years, and they...
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NATO Satellites Show Russian Troops, Armored Vehicles Inside Ukraine
Backing up Kiev government claims of a Russian invasion on Thursday, NATO has published satellite imagery showing Russian military hardware inside the country ready to fire on Ukrainian army...
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Photo Essay: What Remains of Donetsk
Photographer Brendan Hoffman returned in late July to Donetsk, the industrial city in eastern Ukraine where pro-Russian separatists declared the Donetsk People’s Republic in April after a referendum in...
View ArticleRand Paul Takes Isolationist Stance on ISIS Airstrikes
As potential presidential candidates begin to stake out their positions ahead of the 2016 election, Senator Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, is taking a page out of Obama’s playbook. In the Democratic primaries...
View ArticleHuman Microbes Quickly Colonize People's Surroundings
Humans are awash in microbes; they cover our skin, live in our nose and mouths, and, in any given person’s body, outnumber human cells 10 to 1. But little is known about these microorganisms, how they...
View ArticleHuman Trials to Begin for Fast-Tracked Ebola Vaccine
Beginning next week, U.S. researchers will begin testing an experimental Ebola vaccine on 20 healthy adult humans, the National Institutes of Health announced Thursday. The trial, which was...
View ArticleElectricity on the Brain: Can Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Boost Memory?
For many centuries, people have used electricity to heal the brain. “Electric eels and fish,” PBS points out, “were used by people in ancient times to treat headaches and mental illness.” While...
View ArticleHamas Leader Says Gaza Only 'Milestone to Reaching Our Objective'
DOHA (Reuters) - Hamas will not cease resisting Israel until all its demands are met, the group's overall leader Khaled Meshaal said on Thursday, adding the latest Gaza conflict was only "a milestone...
View ArticleHysteria Makes ISIS Stronger
Sometimes, terrorists are the best teachers.Americans tend to be irrational about terrorism. Someone living in the U.S. is thousands of times more likely to die in a car accident than to ever be killed...
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