WASHINGTON, July 23 (UPI) — All is quiet on the Middle Eastern front — for the time being.
A little over a year after the war between Israel and the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah ended almost as abruptly as it had started, there are rumblings of renewed violence possibly breaking out in the Middle East.
The [...]

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WASHINGTON: Top Pentagon officials are considering whether they should halt the drawdown of U.S. troops stationed in Europe, a plan that may be outdated because of the war in Iraq and other world developments.
A Defense Department official said Monday some defense leaders are studying whether the 2002 plan to cut troops on the continent by [...]

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(IsraelNN.com) Syria sees the next war with Israel as involving missile attacks on civilian infrastructure and front-line guerilla warfare, an anonymous senior official in the Syrian Ministry of Defense told Defense News Weekly, in an interview appearing Monday. Syria prefers to avoid a direct, “classic” confrontation with Israel, he said. Instead, the next war will [...]

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China and Russia are seeking to cement their strategic partnership and create a multi-polar world in which the United States will find it much more difficult to dominate international affairs.
It is tempting to see the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation as an expanding bulwark against Western influence in Eurasia.
Founded in Shanghai in 2001, the regional group has [...]

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In Denmark, once-liberal immigration policies have forced huge governmental change and zero tolerance for Muslim immigrants intent on turning Denmark into an Islamic welfare haven. FSM Contributing Editor Susan MacAllen reveals a shocking reaction there and lessons America must learn.
In 2006, the Danish minister for employment, Claus Hjort Frederiksen, spoke publicly of the burden [...]

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New York, July 23: Russia has warned that a return to cold war theories, such as its `containment`, will only lead to confrontation with the west and flayed those who are intent on starting a debate on the issue.
“The cold war represented a step away from the Westphalian standard of state sovereignty, which placed [...]

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WASHINGTON, July 23 (UPI) — At the time of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s February visit to Riyadh, some Russian commentators expressed the view that improved Saudi-Russian ties were occurring at the expense of Saudi relations with America and the West.
“Saudi Arabia is turning away from the West towards Russia,” Moscow’s NTV Mir declared on [...]

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“The Chinese are putting on a full-court press in this area. … They are trying to flatten out the world as fast as possible,” says Joel Brenner, national counterintelligence executive. “One of the ways they accelerate that process is economic espionage. If you can steal something rather than figure it out yourself, you save years. [...]

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Escalating moves from both sides amid war warnings from Damascus’ officials.
GOLAN HEIGHTS – Israel has visibly beefed up its military presence here in the Golan Heights while neighboring Syria reportedly has placed its army on high alert and – for the first time in 30 years – has opened a strategic border road to civilian [...]

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The number of Russian spies in Australia has risen to near-Cold war levels, forcing the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) to train a new generation of counter-espionage officers.
The threat from Russian intelligence experts comes alongside a huge jump in the numbers of Chinese agents believed to be operating in Australia.
The Australian newspaper reports [...]

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Chennai, July. 23: King Wu queried his preceptor, advisor, strategist, and confidant, the T’ai Kung: “I want to overthrow the Shang but have three doubts. I am afraid our strength will be inadequate to attack the strong, estrange the close supporters within the court, and disperse their people. What should I do?”
The reply, as [...]

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The report of Iranian opposition figure Dr. Ali Reza Nourizadeh in the London-based daily Asharq Al-Awsat regarding the arms deal between Iran and Syria should be read with great caution.
First, the figures: in order to procure the weapons and equipment mentioned in the report, especially the MiG-31E fighters and the 400 T-72 tanks, Syria needs [...]

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In the past two months, Lebanon has witnessed unprecedented levels of violence that threaten to mortally weaken what is left of the country’s institutions and governance apparatus. The war that the Lebanese Army has been waging against Fatah al-Islam in the northern camp of Nahr al-Bared is part and parcel of a carefully orchestrated campaign [...]

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