Last Updated 8/26 8:40 PM EST Earlier this month when presumptive Republican Presidential Nominee John McCain declared "we are all Georgians," it is unclear if he was referring to the people of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Yet today the Bush Administration made it...
Following an investigation by their Assistance Mission for Afghanistan, the United Nations has announced that it is convinced that a minimum of 90 civilians were killed in Friday's US airstrike in Herat Province. This number, they reported, included 60 children, and...
Pakistani Muslim League-N Leader Nawaz Sharif announced today that his party would leave Pakistan's coalition government to join the opposition bench, after new President Asif Ali Zardari's Pakistani Peoples Party reneged on its previous promise to restore some 60...
In a move many see as retaliation for the February recognition of independence for Kosovo, both houses of Russia's parliament voted unanimously to recognize the independence of the separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Though not legally binding, the vote...
As the fallout from the Herat bombing continues, Afghan President Hamid Karzai issued a Presidential decree today ordering the immediate firing of two Army officials, including the top ranking officer in western Afghanistan, General Jalandar Shah Behnam, for...
Angry tribesmen took to the streets of the city of Khar after Pakistani forces shelled the town, killing between five and nine civilians and wounding several others when one of the shells destroyed their home. This is the latest in a series of attacks during...
Last Updated 8/24 6:00 PM EST Following up on a previous story, hundreds of angry residents took to the streets of Azizabad, the small village in Herat province that was the site of what appears to be the largest incident of US-inflicted civilian casualties since the...
Thousands of angry Georgians took the streets of the small but strategically important port city of Poti to protest the continued presence of a Russian checkpoint and patrols on the city's outskirts. Just south of Abkhazia along the coast, the city of Poti had been a...
The international press is atwitter with talk of the now nearly-finalized Iraq-US draft agreement. While it appears unlikely that the United States Senate will have any say in the deal once finalized, it would be hasty to declare such a deal inevitable. As recently as...
Last Updated 8/23 11:50 AM EST Just one day after US airstrikes in Laghman province were reported to have killed at least 20 civilians, a much larger incident has occurred on the opposite side of the country in Herat Province. As with yesterday's story, the initial US...
