The unprovoked U.S. attack on a Pakistani military border post last week occurred due to “errors” by U.S. officers, who allegedly gave the wrong coordinates to Pakistani counterparts when seeking clearance to strike. A senior Pakistani military officer has claimed that a border co-ordination unit – established to avoid friendly fire between the U.S. and Pakistan [...]
After conceding this week that Israel was not on the way to a unilateral attack on Iran, Defense Minister Ehud Barak played down speculation that Israel and the U.S. were waging a covert war against Iran. Barak denied accusations of involvement in two explosions that took place in Iran last month, one of which killed at [...]
Afghanistan’s finance minister warned the U.S. on Saturday against cutting funding for the Kabul government, security, and development. The World Bank last month released a study that said Afghanistan would need about $7 billion a year from the international community to help pay its security and other bills long after 2014, the Obama administration’s stated date [...]
Rival militias about 10 miles west of Libya’s capital clashed violently over the weekend, ending with the death of one local official and the destruction of a militia base to rubble. Libya’s new government has still not been able to assert control over the country, as armed gangs and militias – formerly America’s freedom fighters [...]
In the first free and fair elections in Egypt’s history, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) won approximately 40 percent of the vote and the radical Islamic Salafi movement’s Al-Nour Party won 20 percent. After decades of being outlawed and suppressed under the U.S.-supported dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak, these conservative-religious parties are seeing [...]
In over a decade of war in Afghanistan, about half of all Americans killed in action and two thirds of those wounded have done so in 2010 and 2011, according to a Congressional Research Service report. At the time the report was published on November 16, 1,723 Americans had died for the war in Afghanistan and [...]
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