Friendly Fire: An American two-star general is reported to have been killed today by a gunman in an Afghan army uniform at a military training academy outside Kabul. Two other soldiers also were reported killed and as many as 15 …

Return Fire: Israel has warned up to 100,000 residents of Gaza to leave their homes in advance of airstrikes. And Israel reports its first death in more than a week of fighting with Hamas militants in Gaza. The victim was …

Israel Arrests: Israeli police have arrested up to six people in the killing of an Arab boy who was burned to death in a forest. Authorities believe Muhammad Abu Khdeir was burned alive in revenge for the killing of three …

Friendly Fire: Five American Special Operations soldiers and one Afghan were killed by a “friendly” airstrike on their position. The team was conducting security operations prior to Saturday’s scheduled presidential runoff election when they came under attack by the Taliban. …

Ukraine: At least 31 pro-Russians died in a fire in a trade union building in Odessa on the Black Sea yesterday, making it the single most violent day in the Ukraine/Russia standoff so far. Ten other people were reported killed …

World: An Afghan security guard at a hospital in Kabul opened fire, killing three American doctors and wounding an American nurse. Two of the doctors were a father and son. The gunman was wounded in the incident and underwent surgery …

Ukraine: Russian troops flown in by helicopter seized a natural gas terminal and a village just over the Crimean border inside Ukraine yesterday. There were no reports of shots fired.  Russian-occupied Crimea is voting today on whether to secede from …

Ukraine: Russian President Vladimir Putin is engaging in old time saber rattling, ordering air and ground military exercises in Western Russia to last through March 3rd. Russia’s defense minister cited the need to test readiness for a “crisis situation,” but …

Nation: A federal judge in New York ruled that the NSA’s surveillance of phone calls is legal and vital to defense against terrorism. Federal Judge William Pauley threw out a petition by the American Civil Liberties Union. He wrote that, …

Unconstitutional: The NSA’s indiscriminate collection of domestic telephone data violates the Constitutional protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, according to a ruling by a federal judge. DC District Judge Richard Leon also noted that the NSA was unable to cite …