In an interview today on NBC, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that the US is in position to provide more help to the Mexican government to continue its fighting against drug cartels along the two nations’ border. Gates declared the drug war “a serious problem,” and said that he envisions the US providing training, surveillance [...]
On Monday, Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman is scheduled to meet with representatives from some of Israel’s religious parties, in an attempt to come to some sort of understanding over the differences that are standing in the way of a narrow far right coalition government led by Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu received the endorsements of all [...]
On January 29, the Afghan Election Commission decided to delay the nation’s presidential elections until at least August 20. This would’ve effectively kept Afghan President Hamid Karzai in office for several months after his term ends (on May 22), and was publicly condemned by Karzai opponents as unconstitutional. Fast forward a little over a month, [...]
It hasn’t even been a week since the Labor Party publicly ruled out joining a right-wing coalition government headed by Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu, but the prospect of moving from a key ministership to head of a secondary opposition party already has party leader Ehud Barak thinking twice. Reportedly, the defense minister has been [...]
The Obama Administration’s attempts to characterize Iran’s civilian nuclear program as simultaneously a grave threat and something which officials have well in hand has had the nasty side effect of sending enormously mixed signals to the international community over whether they are still interested in a diplomatic channel or are simply following the Bush model [...]
Updated 3/1/09 6:45 PM EST Pakistani intelligence officials confirmed today that the missile attacks on a house in Sararogha, South Waziristan Agency came from a US drone. Joint Chiefs chairman Admiral Michael Mullen declined to comment on the specifics of the operation but said that the military has been “carrying out guidance from President Obama” [...]
