With just over two months left in office, President Bush is hoping to add his voice to the calls for a military surge in Afghanistan, and will reportedly endorse General David McKiernan's call for an increase in the number of troops in Afghanistan. Of course, only two...
President-elect Barack Obama has spoken with Polish President Lech Kaczynski about the Bush Administration's commitment to spend several billion dollars putting 10 interceptor missiles in Poland. The controversial plan is certainly a big deal in Poland, but...
The official US response to Iraq's proposed amendments to the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) was received on Thursday, condemned by top Iraqi clerics during Friday sermons, and will be discussed by the Iraqi cabinet on Sunday. In all that time, we've had only a...
The Independent is reporting tonight that British military commanders are privately condemning plans to use Helmand Province, the embattled province in which the bulk of the British military force operates, into a launching pad for a broad NATO war against drug...
Yesterday, the United States officially responded to the proposed amendments to the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) submitted by the Iraqi government. The exact terms of the response were never made public, but officials have said the US accepted some amendments...
The Afghan government has issued an official report on the US air strike earlier this week that hit a wedding party in Kandahar Province. Initial indications from the scene said 40 civilians were killed, and the final report says that 37 civilians were killed, in...
At his first press conference in his new status, US President-elect Barack Obama hit out at the Iranian government today, accusing them of "development of a nuclear weapon" and vowing "to mount an international effort to prevent that from happening." The Bush...
From its earliest stages the Obama campaign made a timetable for Iraq's pullout a top priority promise. With another 74 days until he even takes office and the current administration's rational for keeping the troops in place faltering fast, what he assured the voters...
Growing doubts about the government's actions in the August war with Russia, which destroyed much of Georgia's military, as well as residual anger over last year's anti-opposition crackdown seem palpable today as over 10,000 members of the opposition rallied in the...
US drones launched yet another unilateral air strike into Pakistan's North Waziristan Agency today, hitting what was described as a "suspected al-Qaeda compound" with multiple missiles and killing at least 13 inside. Information travels slowly in this remote part of...
