Jennifer MattsonApril 20, 2013 16:04

Guantanamo Bay's Lieutenant Colonel Samuel House said in a statement that of the detainees refusing food, over a dozen are on "enteral feedings," or being force-fed via tubes.

Afghan security forces face first fighting season alone

Ben BrodyApril 22, 2013 06:01

QALAT, Afghanistan — US troops reduced to advisory role as Taliban begins its annual onslaught. Under very limited circumstances Afghan units may request assistance from American attack or medevac helicopters, otherwise, the Afghan forces are on their own this summer.

Prince Harry to race to South Pole

Ellen ConnollyApril 19, 2013 13:38

Prince Harry takes on the South Pole.

Geoffrey CainApril 18, 2013 11:31

Should we trust the Pentagon on North Korea?

Obama doesn’t think North Korea can place a nuclear weapon on a missile — as the Pentagon claimed last month.

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Missiles are displayed during a military parade to mark 100 years since the birth of the country's founder Kim Il-Sung in Pyongyang on Apr. 15, 2012. (PEDRO UGARTE/AFP/Getty Images)

SEOUL — The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) — the Pentagon’s intelligence arm — reported “with moderate confidence” in an intelligence assessment that North Korea had mastered a startling technology: the ability to shrink a nuclear warhead and place it on a crude missile. But President Barack Obama came out in apparent loggerheads with the Defense Department. And he wasn’t the first to question the Pentagon’s calculation.

North Korea sets tough new terms for talks with US

Faine Greenwood and Geoffrey CainApril 18, 2013 08:39

SEOUL — North Korea said it would agree to regional talks with South Korea and the US — but only if certain tough preconditions were met first, which the South deems "absurd."

Mac Deford April 17, 2013 12:41

Boston Marathon bombing reveals the worst and best among us

Commentary: Can we prevent global destruction on a scale yet to be seen?

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A piece of debris rests against a police barricade near the scene of Monday's deadly bombing at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. FBI investigators will try to rebuild the bombs used in the attack to determine their origin. (Spencer Platt/AFP/Getty Images)

OWLS HEAD, Maine — The Boston Marathon attack was not 9/11. But the awful shock, that kick-in-the-gut feeling it created, brought back memories of that first, terrifying run-in with international terrorism. The death rate in Boston was minuscule, 1/1,000th of those lost on 9/11, but that it happened at one of the nation's happiest, carefree athletic events made it particularly painful, and not just for the memories it evoked. Sure, we'll continue to have marathons, parades, mass celebrations of one sort or another, but like our trips through airports these days, they'll be less carefree, more burdensome, less the innocent experience of our youth.

Bill GlucroftApril 18, 2013 06:25

German TV mini-series paints false picture of Nazi madness

Commentary: A reminder of how sensitive Germany struggles to confront its past.

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A protest against a neo-Nazis in Dresden, Germany, Feb. 13, 2013. (Robert Michael/AFP/Getty Images)

Next month in Munich, those associated with a long-unknown neo-Nazi terror cell go on trial for 10 murders allegedly committed over the last several years. The public and media outrage at the state for failing to uncover the group’s existence is another reminder of how sensitive Germany remains to its heinous past, and how serious it still is in confronting it.

Chad pulls troops out of Mali's 'guerrilla' war

Kaitlin FunaroApril 15, 2013 10:25

GlobalPost senior correspondent in Africa, Tristan McConnell, says it wasn't so long ago that "Chad's soldiers were being talked of as being exactly the kind of battle-hardened desert warriors that were needed to deal Mali's jihadists a death blow. Now it turns out they're nothing of the sort."

Guantanamo Bay detainees fight back against guards in clash

Samantha StainburnApril 14, 2013 12:59

According to Joint Task Force Guantanamo, the guards isolated detainees in individual cells because the prisoners had covered up surveillance cameras, windows and glass partitions in communal living areas.

Geoffrey CainApril 12, 2013 11:43

With North Korean threats, is South Korea safe for investment?

South Korean President Park Geun-hye reassured foreign investors despite talk from the North.

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A foreign businessman walks in the Myungdong shopping district on April 11, 2013 in Seoul, South Korea. According to reports a North Korean missile launcher has been moved into firing position as the continuing threats of attack emit from Pyongyang. G8 leaders convened in London to discuss the situation. (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)

SEOUL, South Korea — We've heard a lot of talk in recent weeks about the military side of the North Korea threat. Today, the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency is reporting that North Korea could have the capabilities to build a nuclear warhead small enough to fit on a missile — even though there's a lot of disagreement over that part.

But how does the threat of military action play for foreign investors in South Korea?

Today, President Park Geun-hye met with foreign investors from Google, Citibank and Siemens — to name a few corporations — in her administration's Blue House, reported the JoongAng Ilbo newspaper. She tried to assure them that her administration would create a stable investment environment despite North Korea's bluster.