US General David McKiernan, the top NATO commander in Afghanistan, is sick and tired of seeing headlines reporting how badly the war in Afghanistan is going. Sure, civilian deaths may be soaring, troop death may be at their highest level since the 2001 invasion, and the latest classified draft of the National Intelligence Estimate concludes [...]
After failing to convince the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party to join a new coalition government, Kadima Party leader Tzipi Livni has advised Israeli President Shimon Peres to call for a new election. President Peres did not immediately set a date, saying he wanted to consult with various party leaders on the pending vote first.
Livni accused the [...]
As the United States struggles to get Iraqi officials to change their position on the all-but-dead Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) top US commander General Ray Odierno has issued a three-page letter to high ranking Iraqi officials. The letter includes a list of major services which the United States would halt if the Iraqi government [...]
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani publicly condemned the “intolerable” series of unilateral US drone strikes launched in North and South Waziristan in the past two months at a press conference today. He said the strike were an attack on Pakistan’s national sovereignty and were weakening the nation’s anti-terror efforts. He added that he had [...]
An unnamed US military official has confirmed the attack on the Syrian border town of al-Sukkariya earlier this evening, which killed at least eight and wounded 14 others. He said the attack targeted “elements of a robust foreign fighter logistics network” and that the US had decided to take matters “into our own hands.” US [...]
Updated 10/26 6:50 PM EST
A US drone attack on a suspected “militant compound” near South Waziristan Agency’s main city of Wana has destroyed the compound, and killed at least 20 people.
This is the second reported US drone strike in the past few days, and the 12th in the past 10 weeks, with a strike on [...]
Updated 10/26 6:20 PM EST
In a report from local witnesses later confirmed by a Syrian government spokesman, Two US helicopters landed in the Syrian border town of Al-Sukkariya while others remained in the air and eight American soldiers exited. The soldiers killed at least eight people in the attack, and wounded 14 others before reboarding [...]
Updated 10/26 1:45 PM EST
US forces called in an air strike in Ghazni Province to fend off a Taliban attack on guards for a road construction project. Now, provincial officials say they are investigating reports that the air strike killed 24 guards. A spokesman for the US military said they have no information regarding the [...]
The US State Department has summoned Massoud al-Barzani, President of Iraqi Kurdistan, as part of a delegation to Washington DC later this week to discuss ways to rescue the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between the US and Iraq, which top officials are saying is all but dead at this point.
Two weeks ago the SOFA [...]
In a move expected to be announced sometime after November’s US Presidential Election, President Bush will reportedly announce his intentions to establish an “interests section” in Iran. An Interests Section is a diplomatic office operating out of a third nation’s embassy. The United States has such an office through the Swiss Embassy in Cuba, and [...]
