Syria Has Shut Down Its Airspace To All Turkish Aircraft
Syria banned Turkish passenger flights from its airspace from Sunday in a retaliatory move after Turkey confiscated a cargo of what Russia said was radar equipment en route from Moscow to Damascus...
View ArticleIran Demands Mad Props For Getting That Drone Into Israel Last Week
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's defense minister says Hezbollah's launch of a drone into Israeli airspace earlier this week proves Iranian military capabilities. The Sunday statement by Gen. Ahmad Vahidi...
View ArticleLIVE: Felix Baumgartner Attempts To Break The Sound Barrier
Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner tries again today to become the first skydiver to break the speed of sound, despite earlier delays due to strong winds. You can watch the live feed at the Red Bull...
View ArticleChuck Yeager Broke The Speed Of Sound In A Rocket Plane 65 Years Ago Today
Chuck Yeager became the first man to break the speed of the sound in a rocket plane on Oct. 14, 1947. Exactly 65 years later, Felix Baumgartner will try to become the first skydiver to break the speed...
View ArticleHere's Why Clusterbombs Are A Devastating Weapon For Syria
The Syrian regime stands accused once again of using controversial clusterbombs in its fight against rebel forces. Cluster bombs are not only effective at devastating troops across a patch of...
View ArticleUS And Japan May Hold A Drill To Simulate Attacking An Island Seized By...
Japan and the United States are mulling a joint military drill to simulate retaking a remote island from foreign forces, reports said, amid a festering row between Tokyo and Beijing over disputed...
View ArticleWhy Churchill Thought Attacking Italy Could Win Him World War II
David Reynolds, professor of international history at Cambridge and fêted documentary-maker, is making a habit of asking BBC Four viewers to think anew about the Second World War. His last film, World...
View ArticleAwesome Pictures Of Jets Breaking The Sound Barrier
Most people know the intrepid, and let's just say it totally ballsy, Chuck Yeager strapped himself into a plane with more engine than wings and successfully exceeded the speed of sound on October 14,...
View ArticleConditions In Iran Are Becoming Increasingly Desperate
More worrisome signs are emerging of deteriorating economic conditions in Iran. Here are some of the latest news quotes: 1. Crude output is slowing. NYT: - Daily oil production in Iran, the most...
View ArticleAwesome GIF Of Felix Baumgartner Jumping From Space
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View ArticleAustrian Skydiver Felix Baumgartner Breaks The Speed Of Sound
Felix Baumgartner successfully jumped from 24 miles above Earth today. By doing this, the 43-year-old from Austria became the first person to break the speed of sound wearing only a high-pressure...
View ArticleWhen This Woman Was Killed In Combat It Exposed How The Government Really...
When the first of October rolled in a couple of weeks ago it reminded many of us that summer was really over. Forget Labor Day and September 21, the first day of fall; October is changing leaves,...
View ArticleREPORT: Iran Drew Up Plans To Cause A Vast Oil Spill In The Strait Of Hormuz
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards has floated the idea of creating a vast oil spill in the Strait of Hormuz to block the vital shipping lane, Erich Follath of Der Spiegel reports. The "top secret"...
View ArticleThe US Is Stuck Arming Hard-Line Jihadists In An Attempt To Topple The Syrian...
Most of the weapons being sent from Saudi Arabia and Qatar to Syrian rebels are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists as opposed to secular opposition groups that the West wants to strengthen, American...
View ArticleMIT: The US Really Should Be Freaking Out About Possible Cyber Attacks
Many called the world wide web a 'democratizing force' when it hit mainstream use in the late 80s and 90s, but it could be just the force to bring the US to its knees in the coming years. Many...
View ArticleVideo Shows Crowd Going Nuts As Veteran Tackles Westboro Baptist Protester
The Westboro Baptists were up to no good Saturday at a funeral for Army Sgt. Donna Johnson in North Carolina when they attempted to stomp the American flag in front of a group of vets. In the amateur...
View ArticleTaliban Who Took Hit Out On 14 Year-Old Girl Now Targeting Media Over Coverage
The Pakistani Taliban have reacted to the torrent of negative media coverage after their attempt to assassinate a 14-year-old schoolgirl by threatening journalists. Several Pakistani and international...
View ArticleThis New 'Mini-Flame' Virus Is Sweeping Through The Middle East
A new cyberespionage tool linked to the Flame virus has been infecting computers in Lebanon, Iran and elsewhere, security researchers said Monday. Kaspersky Lab, which was credited with revealing the...
View ArticleDanish Man Claims He Was A CIA Double Agent Inside Al-Qaeda
A Danish man claims that he helped the CIA track radical American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki until the al-Qaeda figure was killed in a U.S. drone strike in September 2011, Brian Ross of ABC News reports....
View ArticleOne Of The Most Effective Weapons Against Iran Has Nothing To Do With Military
Would-be foreign policy experts haunting airport bars in odd corners of the U.S. used to ask me, as I sat uncomfortably in my green and red Marine Corps monkey suit, what it was the Coalition Forces...
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