Policy & Strategy

Kerry said an ad criticizing Obama over bin Laden and leaks bore a striking resemblance to 2004's "Swift Boat" attacks.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski said the controversial Law of the Sea pact will have better prospects after the campaign ends.

"Mr. President, you did not kill Osama bin Laden. America did," one Navy SEAL says in the video.

A Lebanese clan said Wednesday it had kidnapped more than 20 Syrians in Lebanon in retaliation for a kidnapping by the Syrian Free Army, according to media reports, as the Syrian conflict began to spill over the countries' border.

The Associated Press reported that the clan, which backs the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, smashed storefronts and captured the 20 Syrians as well as a Turkish man, after a relative of the clan was kidnapped, in Syria, by the Syrian opposition. Reuters reported a Saudi man was also among those abducted in Lebanon.

The U.S. ambassador to Turkey said Wednesday there were "serious legal and practical obstacles."

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Israel’s outgoing defense minister declared in an interview with the Maariv newspaper today that his country was prepared “as never before” for a war with Iran, reports Agence France-Presse. 

Matan Vilnai, who is set to become the country’s ambassador to China, predicted that any Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities would result in a 30-day war on multiple fronts. Civilian casualties could rise as high as 500 as the small nation would endure missile strikes targeting its population centers.

A new outside political group of former intelligence and military officials is launching an ad blitz targeting Obama's foreign-policy credentials.

Leon Panetta said Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps are assisting local militias to fight alongside government troops waging civil war.

Iran is consulting with domestic and foreign legal experts about filing a lawsuit against parties that have launched cyberattacks targeted at its critical infrastructure, an Iranian official told FARS News Agency on Tuesday.

They want Tuvalu and Tanzania to be punished for helping the National Iranian Tanker Company skirt international rules.