Diplomats have focused on Syria's unwillingness to grant additional visits as stalling an International Atomic Energy Agency investigation into a bombed site which the US claims was a nearly-finished nuclear reactor, but IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei finds the more...
US Ambassador: ‘Plausible’ that Iran Might Try to Make Nuclear Weapons
There is no shortage of US officials making broad statements accusing the Iranian government of attempting to develop a nuclear weapon, but after last week's International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iran yielded no interesting allegations to latch onto, US...
Sources: Much of India’s Afghan Aid Funneled to Anti-Pakistan Activities
Lest we think that all the allegations flying across the India-Pakistan border in the past few days are headed in one direction, Pakistan's Daily Times is reporting tonight on evidence which according to unnamed sources was gathered by Pakistani intelligence agencies,...
Plenty of Suspects, Little Evidence in Mumbai Attacks
A myriad of coordinated attacks across India's financial capital of Mumbai continues this evening, and though a group calling itself the Deccan Mujahedeen (Deccan is a plateau that makes up most of southern India) has claimed credit for the attack, there is no...
UN Security Council Denies Afghanistan in Crisis
A delegation from the United Nations Security Council wrapped up a three day tour of Afghanistan today with a veiled swipe at recent complaints by Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Touting a cabinet reshuffle as grounds for "cautious optimism," delegation head Giulio...
Iraq Referendum Deal Won’t Effect Pact Any Time Soon
A deal yesterday to schedule a referendum for July 30, 2009 on the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) may have been instrumental in scoring the vote a narrow victory today in Iraq's Parliament, but the terms of the deal are unlikely to give the referendum the meaning...
Attacks Continue to Rock Mumbai
Updated 11/27 2:09 PM EST Mumbai's night of terror has stretched on well into the afternoon of the following day, and India's economic center remains under siege. Gunmen remain at large, battles are still ongoing at the city's two major five star hotels (the Oberoi...
Iraq’s Status of Forces Agreement Narrowly Passed
Numerous vote delays to allow time for extra politicking, a deal for a referendum next year to placate the major Sunni bloc (the Iraqi Accord Front), and last minute endorsements from the IAF, the National Dialogue bloc, and the Iraqi Communist Party seem like a...
IAEA Overrides US Concerns, Approves Syria Aid
US complaints earlier this week about the "wholly inappropriate" IAEA aid scheduled to be provided to Syria have been rejected, and the agency has approved the $350,000 aid project to help the Syrian government select a site for a potential nuclear power plant. The...
Pakistani Spy Agency’s Political Wing Disbanded
In a sign that the days of military interference in political affairs may indeed be over, Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) has had its domestic political wing disbanded. The enormously independent ISI has been accused of using the wing to...