Tasnim Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif made a reference to data released by an academic center on the financial and human costs of the wars that the US has waged since the 9/11 attacks purportedly to fight terrorism, saying they have wreaked havoc on the Middle East. In a post on his Twitter account on Friday, Zarif pointed to a document ...

Former congressman Ron Paul has called the new US military spending plan a recipe for disaster that would destroy the countrys economy. Next years military spending plan keeps the US on track toward destruction of its economy at home while provoking new resentment over US interventionism overseas. It is a recipe for disaster, Paul wrote in an article ...

Washington (AFP) - President Barack Obama plans to ask for an increase in military spending in a proposed budget for 2016, with a request for $585 billion that would exceed funding caps mandated by Congress, officials said. The budget proposal for the Pentagon would provide for a hike in spending on weapons, research and maintenance, which had been ...