presstv.com | Iran’s Ambassador to France Ali Ahani has warned against any military attack.

zeenews.india.com | Washington did not believe North Korea had the capability to deploy a nuclear-armed missile.

Mike Adams | A classified Defense Intelligence Agency report described in testimony on Capitol Hill yesterday reveals that “North Korea now has nuclear weapons capable of delivery by ballistic missiles.”

TheStar.com | Tensions rise in the Korean Peninsula after S. Korea’s foreign minister warns that N. Korea is expected to conduct a missile launch as early as Thursday.

cnn.com | A government agency is quoted by the state-run media as saying that “war can break out any moment.”

Washington’s Blog | Kyle Bass, Martin Armstrong, Larry Edelson, Charles Nenner, James Dines, Nouriel Roubini, Jim Rogers, Marc Faber and Jim Rickards Warn of War.

rt.com | France has withdrawn its first batch of 100 troops out of the 4,000 deployed in Mali.

Washington’s Blog | “Mad Dog” Bluff Based on Fear of U.S.-South Korean War Games Turning Into Real Invasion.

RT | North Korea has warned all foreign nationals to prepare to evacuate the South in the event of conflict.

RT | Pyongyang has issued a warning urging foreign nationals to evacuate South Korea, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.

All Africa | Nobel Peace Prize Obama received in 2009 most appalling Orwellian award of this century. No, war is not peace.

BBC | A further six women are believed to have been injured in the incident.

Fars News Agency | Designing and construction of Iran’s new indigenous submarine is in its final phases.

PanARMENIAN.Net | Final decision will be made by Putin after consultations with Russian lawmakers and experts.

Bill Gertz | Tu-22M Backfire bomber on Feb. 26 simulated firing air-launched cruise missiles at an Aegis ship.

AFP | It also adds to the 1.2 million refugees who have fled to neighboring countries…

Scott Creighton | North Korea has not declared war on the South or the U.S.

The Telegraph | China has intervened in the deepening Korea crisis by summoning the ambassadors of North and South Korea.

Brandon Smith | Whenever discussion over North Korea arises in Western circles, it always seems to be accompanied by a strange mixture of sensationalism and indifference.

xinhuanet.com | Drill was conducted by the Chinese Navy’s Nanhai Fleet.

Max Fisher | North Korea does not appear to have mastered the technology to miniaturize nukes enough to put on top of a missile.

Tony Cartalucci | US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel have conspired to destroy Syria by way of arming sectarian extremists since 2007.

YouTube | Footage shows 8-year-old boy carrying AK-47, smoking cigarettes.

oregonlive.com | Bill moving in the Senate that makes war with Iran more likely.

Washington Post | Taking into account medical care of wounded veterans and expensive repairs to a force depleted by more than a decade of fighting.

The Telegraph | N. Korea claimed its people were “burning with hatred” for the US after Washington confirmed it flew B-2 stealth bomber “deterrence” missions over S. Korea.

AFP | Apparently in a bid to intimidate Kurdish rebels with whom Ankara is in peace talks…

The Telegraph | N. Korea has elevated its artillery and strategic missile forces to “combat-ready posture” and said it is prepared to strike targets in South Korea, Japan, Guam, Hawaii and the continental US.

Robert Parry | The true purpose of the Iraq invasion remains opaque. Here’s a theory why.

Tony Cartalucci | New York Times article admits CIA has been shipping weapons to Syria, while simultaneously trying to spin our role in arming militants.

Ron Paul | It is time for the American people to shout “enough!”

Tony Cartalucci | A strange silence has fallen across the Western media regarding the chemical attack which Israel had even claimed to have “confirmed.”

Weekly Standard | What did they agree to do to deal with the Syria issue?

Reuters | Israeli military says they “responded with accurate fire toward the Syrian post from which they were fired on.”

foxnews.com | Assad vowed to “wipe out” Muslim extremists in Syria.

Infowars.com | The justification for the invasion was a packet of lies.

dailymail.co.uk | Final letter accuses Bush and Cheney of “egregious war crimes of plunder and finally of murder.”

The Telegraph | In response to Washington using B-52 bombers in a joint military drill with the South.

Kurt Nimmo | Obama administration official characterizes unsubstantiated attack as “game changer.”

landdestroyer.blogspot.com | US resident Ghassan Hitto was chosen as the new “interim prime minister” of NATO’s proxy forces fighting in Syria.

Daniel McAdams | Does the “red line” count if it is the US allies using the weapons?

JPOST.com | ‘LA Times’ reports the US is collecting intelligence that would be used for possible drone strikes on extremists rebels.

nbcnews.com | Defense Secretary Hagel will announce U.S. deploying 14 new ground-based missile interceptors, probably in Alaska.

AFP | At least 116,000 Iraqi civilians and more than 4,800 coalition troops died in Iraq between 2003 and 2011.

Business Insider | Comes at a time when U.S. and South Korea are conducting an annual joint-military exercise.

Reuters | Assad’s ally Russia criticizes U.S., European and Gulf Arab governments for their aid to Syrian rebels seeking to topple Assad.

Wall Street Journal | As al Qaeda fighters cross over from Syria, agency fills void left by U.S. military.

IB Times | Pledge “merciless retaliation” on the South Korean and American “warmongers” who are holding a joint military exercise.

AFP | Afghanistan’s Karzai says Taliban in talks with U.S.

Air Force Times | The Air Force reversed a policy of sharing the number of airstrikes launched from RPAs in Afghanistan.