Tweet Military officials from the Pentagon warned Iran not to disrupt oil shipments in the Persian Gulf as Iran threatened to interfere with the passageway. Pentagon spokesman George Little said that the Strait of Hormuz is a vital economic lifeline needed for the stability in the region. It is 34 miles wide and 20 percent of the world’s oil shipments... 

Tweet Two Americans who were jailed in Iran for more than two years for spying are now back in New York last Sunday. They maintained that they were innocent and were held hostage because of their nationality. Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were arrested together with their friend Sarah Shourd while hiking near the Iran-Iraq border last July 2009. The two... 

Tweet President Barack Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to a young former Marine who fought his way through an ambush in an Afghan ravine to rescue three dozen fellow marines and recover the body of four dead American soldiers. He did all that despite being ordered to stay put. The awarding ceremony was held at the White House and the president described... 

Tweet A tipster told authorities that the Al Qaeda is plotting to launch an attack to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks. But a senior Federal official said that the tip is more likely to be false. Federal authorities are now questioning the credibility of the tip from a reliable source that the terror group had planned... 

Tweet Police were already keeping a close watch of 17-year old Jared Cano when they got a tip that he was planning to plant a bomb in his old high school when classes resume after the summer break. Authorities found plastic tubing, shrapnel, fuse and timing devices in his apartment. Cano is said to be planning something worse than the Columbine mass shootings.... 

Tweet A little over a month after a Navy SEAL team killed Osama bin Laden, there are reports coming out of northwest Pakistan that a missile strike from the U.S. forces has killed Ilyas Kashmiri. He was the commander-in-chief of the Kashmiri militant group Harakat-ul Jihad-i-Islami. He was said to be a possible replacement for bin Laden. If the reports... 

Tweet The United States Department of Justice charged six Pakistani Americans for helping the Taliban based in Pakistan. Three of the people charged are already in custody, including two imams at mosques in southern Florida. The remaining three are still at large and currently in Pakistan. The six people who were tagged as Taliban supporters are Hafiz... 

Tweet Al Qaeda’s online propaganda arm didn’t call for a major terrorist plot after its leader, Osama bin Laden, was killed in Pakistan. Instead the terrorist group urges its members around the world to plan their own attacks. The message posted online praised Bin Laden for his long term tactics and visions but goes the opposite direction when it... 

Tweet Osama bin Laden pondered on how many more Americans need to die so that the United States would leave Middle East alone. This and other private thoughts were revealed through notes left by the al Qaeda leader. It was bin Laden’s mindset that more bloodshed is needed to make the U.S. change its foreign policies with regards to the Middle East.... 

Tweet Pentagon released several videos of Osama bin Laden as proof that the al Qaeda leader was very much alive and in control before the pre-dawn raid that ended his life. In the videos, bin Laden looked haggard as he watched television news coverage about himself. In the video, bin Laden was alone in a room in front of a TV connected to a satellite...