By Greg Richter Iranian negotiators seem pleased with themselves over the Iran nuclear deal announced Tuesday, but they had little to do with their success, former CIA Director James Woolsey tells Newsmax TV’s “Hard Line.” “It wasn’t really any particular skill on their part. We were negotiating against ourselves and we defeated ourselves,” Woolsey told host Ed […]

Mokhtar Belmokhtar was charged with leading a deadly gas-plant attack in Algeria By PHILIP SHISHKIN in Washington and DREW HINSHAW in Accra, Ghana Updated June 14, 2015 10:36 p.m. ET U.S. aircraft carried out a strike in Libya targeting a senior al Qaeda commander who masterminded terrorist attacks across the Sahara, the Pentagon said on Sunday. While […]

By:Pete Hoekstra Libya has steadily devolved into a lawless failed state since NATO and the U.S. assisted rebels in deposing dictator Muammar Gaddafi less than four years ago. In the past few days alone the Islamic State in Libya claimed to have beheaded two Tunisian journalists; Turkish Airlines became the last foreign carrier to service […]

By: Pete Hoekstra Not long ago, Washington considered arming and training rebels engaged in what would become a fierce civil war. Nations with an invested stake in the outcome discussed whether to support a perceived David against a corrupt Goliath in a strategically located region of the world. The consequences would have broad ramifications that […]