World Dec 21 Analysts: South Korean Election May Trigger North Korean Provocation The North Korean military band celebrates the North's rocket launch on Dec. 12 in Pyongyang. Photo by KCNA via Reuters. Following a presidential election in South Korea this week, a number of analysts are saying North Korea is likely to…
World Nov 05 Could New Technology Cut Risk of Giving Syrian Rebels Anti-Aircraft Missiles? A member of the 8th Security Police Squadron is silhouetted against the sky as he holds a Stinger anti-aircraft guided missile. Photo by USAF. With the Syrian civil war seemingly locked in stalemate as the violence enters its 20th month,…
World Oct 15 U.S. Navy, Allies Find Less Than Half the Sea Mines Planted in Key Exercise Below the flight deck of the USS Enterprise, one of the aircraft carriers that participated in the mine hunting exercise in September. Photo by Dan Sagalyn A major international naval exercise last month in and around the Persian Gulf and…
Nation Sep 28 Jellyfish, Sea Snakes and Beetles: The Challenges of Hunting for Sea Mines Navy divers use MH-53 helicopters, like this one on board the USS Ponce, to hunt for mines in the Persian Gulf. Photo by Dan Sagalyn/PBS NewHour PERSIAN GULF -- One of the biggest challenges hunting for mines in the Persian…
Nation Sep 20 As Israel’s Threat to Bomb Iran Looms, U.S. Vows to Keep Aircraft Carrier Strike Group in Persian Gulf USS ENTERPRISE, North Arabian Sea | The U.S. Navy is vowing to keep commercial sea lanes open in the international waters off Iran, despite a view among a small number of critics that Washington's military muscle may inadvertently stoke…
World Sep 16 Iran Watching as U.S. Military Launches Exercise in Strait of Hormuz KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait | The United States, along with more than 27 other countries from four different continents, began Sunday the largest ever military exercise aimed at practicing how to find and destroy sea mines in the waters of the…
Nation Aug 29 Vet Activist Goes on Hunger Strike in Front of White House EmbedVideo(4274, 482, 304); When the Army released data earlier this month showing that suicides had spiked to an all-time high, Tom Mahany decided he had to do something to focus more attention on the issue. He went on a…
World Jul 11 USAID Official Responds to Criticism of Money Spent in Afghanistan Afghan workers carry a montage of photographs through a renovated park in Kabul on May 10, 2012. Photo by Bay Ismoyo/AFP/Getty Images. An international donors' conference in Tokyo over the weekend highlighted the continued demands on Afghanistan to end corruption…
Politics Nov 11 Perry Pokes Fun at Flub on ‘Late Show’ Texas Gov. Rick Perry spent Thursday working feverishly to turn the corner on his much maligned brain freeze in Wednesday night's debate. He did no fewer than seven nationally televised interviews, additional radio interviews and ended the day at the…
Politics Nov 10 Perry Launches Damage Control After Major Debate Flub GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry didn't do himself any favors during Wednesday night's debate. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images. You know you didn't have a good night as a presidential candidate if you need to get up early to do…