Saadi Gaddafi, one of the sons of the Libyan fugitive ruler Muammar Gaddafi. One of the sons of Libyan fugitive ruler Muammar Gaddafi has escaped to the neighboring country of Niger, which has reportedly turned into a safe haven for members of the dictator’s crumbling regime. Niger’s Justice Minister Marou Amadou said on Sunday that Saadi Gaddafi has arrived in Niger and was heading to... 

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned that it will only be a matter of time before America endures another terrorist attack if Congress ends up blaming the defense budget for this country’s red ink woes. “The Department of Defense is not what’s causing the debt and the deficit. It’s the entitlement programs,” he told HUMAN EVENTS in an exclusive interview. “If we make that mistake,... 

China’s military is developing electromagnetic pulse weapons that Beijing plans to use against U.S. aircraft carriers in any future conflict over Taiwan, according to an intelligence report made public on Thursday. Portions of a National Ground Intelligence Centerstudy on the lethal effects of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and high-powered microwave (HPM) weapons revealed that the arms are part... 

Fugitive Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi Fugitive Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi has vowed that he will continue resisting and will defeat revolutionaries that control most of the country as well as NATO forces. Gaddafi, whose whereabouts remain unknown, made the remarks in a phone call to Syria’s Arrari Television station on Thursday, Reuters reported. The defiant dictator slammed reports of his... 

American Predator drone firing two Hellfire missiles. Local fighters say they have shot down a suspected United States operated aerial vehicle in the south of Somalia near the capital, Mogadishu. Press TV reported. Al-Shabaab fighters say the drone crashed into the sea after it was hit near the lower Shabelle region in Merka town, located south of the capital. The fighters say six other drones have... 

A Libyan rebel points his rifle at a man accused of being a mercenary fighting for Muammar Gaddafi. Many have been arrested and accused of fighting for dictator, but claim they were press-ganged. Earlier this year, as revolution and siege ground Tripoli to a halt, Mehdi Hassan knew where to look for work. He would drive his taxi to a roundabout in the south-west of the capital and wait for foreigners... 

It seems that French President Nicolas Sarkozy has warmed to the role of Napoleon. The events in Libya have infatuated him. Gaddafi has not been toppled yet, but Sarkozy already threatens Iran. “Its military nuclear and ballistic ambitions constitute a growing threat that may lead to a preventive attack against Iranian sites that would provoke a major crisis that France wants to avoid at all... 

A recent Haaretz report says that Turkish officials told Hurriyet Daily News that Turkish navy will strengthen presence in eastern Mediterranean Sea to stop Israeli ‘bullying’. Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said in an interview with public television that “There is no risk of a naval confrontation, I don’t think for a moment that Turkish war-ships will escort... 

Muammar Gaddafi has issued a statement condemning rebels as collaborators. A defiant Gaddafi denounced rebels as ‘traitors’, and said tribes loyal to him would never surrender to ‘collaborators’. A defiant Muammar Gaddafi has issued his latest apocalyptic statement, urging his surrounded followers to “keep fighting” and promising to turn Libya “into a hell”. In... 

Accused: Powell brushed off Cheney's claims that he tried to undercut President Bush's policies in Iraq. An aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell has hit out at Dick Cheney, saying the former Vice President fears being ‘tried as a war criminal’ Powell’s long-time aide and chief of staff, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson told ABC news Cheney, ‘Was president for all... 

Sets up collision course over issue of Palestinian statehood. In a further jolt to U.S. influence in the Middle East, China is expected to vote in favor of Palestinian statehood when the 66th United Nations General Assembly takes up the issue next month, according to Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. Chinese President Hu Jintao told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in an exchange of notes last... 

Russian Flag on Lomonosov Ridge Arctic Seabed Late last week, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper spent four days in the Arctic. Flying around military bases in the northern provinces of Canada Nunavut, Yukon and Northwest Territories has become a tradition over the years of his stay in power. The current Prime Minister has been in power for six years, and for the sixth time he appeared in the Arctic.... 

US soldiers in Afghanistan August 2011 has become the deadliest month for US troops in the decade-long war in Afghanistan with 66 American soldiers killed in the month. The figure, released by the Associated Press on Tuesday, eclipsed the earlier figure of 65 belonging to July 2010. Most fatalities were those of an August 6 helicopter crash in which 30 US troops lost their lives. The victims were aboard... 

Libya’s rebels have tasted the victory and reject their opponents’ proposal to negotiate a peace treaty, making final arrangements to finish the war by storming Gaddafi’s native city of Sirte, while the capital’s residents lay low anticipating chaos. ­The rebels in Libya have rejected the possibility of staging talks with Muammar Gaddafi. The National Transitional Council (NTC) says they... 

Smoke rises following fighting at Bab Alzaziya in Tripoli August 23, 2011. Libyan opposition forces say they took control of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s compound in the capital city of Tripoli. Opposition sources said the fighters entered Bab al-Aziziyah compound through its western entrance on Tuesday. “Our forces are surrounding Bab al-Azizyah. There is a fierce battle going on...