Having apparently failed in his attempts to court the Kadima and Labor parties into a grand coalition, Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempts at forming a far-right government seem to be faltering as well. While everyone seems to be on board for the Likud leader’s hawkish foreign policy, there seems to be considerable split over his domestic agenda.
Before [...]
It is being reported that Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai will, on Friday, declare a snap election for April 21. The move is coming amid pressure from the opposition regarding the constitutionality of delays to the election.
The Afghan Election Commission had previously announced a delay which would put the election back to at least August 20. [...]
Moving forward after an announcement earlier this week that they would agree to a permanent ceasefire, the Swat Valley chapter of the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has reportedly dismantled a number of its checkpoints in the area, and witnesses say they have seen no armed TTP patrols.
The move seems to stem from the 10-point peace [...]
Just one day after reports came out regarding the Obama Administration’s 19 month withdrawal plan from Iraq, the Pentagon was detailing the enormous number of troops that would remain on the ground after Obama ostensibly fulfills his promise to remove all combat troops, and all the combat they’ll be engaging in.
After the “pullout,” as many [...]
Just one day after the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) declared a unilateral ceasefire in the Bajaur Agency, the Pakistani security forces have now said that at the request of tribal elders they will observe a four day ceasefire in the area as well as “a goodwill gesture.”
The last time the two sides ostensibly both had [...]
Over a month since hostilities halted, much of the Gaza Strip remains in ruins, untouched since it was obliterated by the Israeli invasion. The issue isn’t money: Saudi Arabia’s pledge of $1 billion soon after the war ended has been followed up by major pledges from across the world. But even flush with promises of [...]
For the first time in history, a British minister has vetoed the decision made by Britain’s Information Tribunal regarding the release of documents relating to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
In this case, Justice Secretary Jack Straw blocked the impending release of the minutes of top-level government meetings regarding the legality of the 2003 invasion [...]
Citing the likely far-right nature of the next Israeli government, a senior Palestinian Authority official has declared the peace process between the two parties dead. The unnamed official declared that the next Israeli government would be “an extremist government that, in the best case, won’t go crazy building settlements and won’t escalate the security situation [...]
Officials say that the Obama Administration intends to have most troops out of Iraq by August 2010, replacing the president’s 16 month timetable from the campaign with a 19 month one that would end with a considerable “residual force” beyond that date.
President Obama will reportedly make an announcement sometime this week with regards to the [...]
The details of a 2 PM incident at a police station in the Iraqi city of Mosul remained elusive for several hours, with quotes from media outlets putting the number of soldiers killed at four (citing an unnamed official from the Iraqi Interior Ministry), while the US military initially claimed to have no information beyond [...]
