US military officials are reporting that the Kurdish Regional Government in Iraq took delivery of three planeloads of weapons from Bulgaria sometimes in September. The quantity of the arms caught US officials off guard, and has apparently irked the Iraqi central...
Yesterday's drone strike in North Waziristan Agency, Pakistan, was perhaps most noteworthy among the dozens of US strikes in Pakistan's border regions in that it killed a dual citizen of Pakistan and Britain, Rashid Rauf, a terror suspect who officials have sought to...
Experts disagree on whether Iran even has the raw material to construct a single nuclear weapon if it chose to do so. They seem to agree, hawkish political sloganeering notwithstanding, that Iran has not diverted any of that material to military ends. Either way, the...
Echoing comments last week from State Department adviser David Satterfield, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has said his government will not seek an extended UN Mandate if the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the US fails to pass parliament. Though both...
In an interview, former Israeli military chief and potential future Defense Minister General Moshe Ya'alon says that the Iranian revolution must be confronted "immediately," and suggests some rather extreme measures which this confrontation might involve. Firstly an...
With boisterous debate and a looming vote in Iraq's parliament over the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the United States, few things could have made the situation any more tense. The United States has issued repeated threats of extreme consequences if the...
Updated 11/22 7:05 PM EST In a sign of just how seriously the United States took this week's formal protest from the Pakistani government over its recent spate of air strikes, US drones have struck again, this time hitting a house in North Waziristan, killing five and...
The IAEA issued its Wednesday report on Syria, finding no conclusive proof of a nuclear reactor at the site of a 2007 Israeli air strike but calling for more investigations. Syria has dismissed the report's conclusions and said it considers the matter closed, with...
Though the United States has not set any firm dates for adding troops to Afghanistan beyond January, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says he would like to see "significant" additional forces added to the troubled nation before its next national election, scheduled...
After its second formal protest in the past month alone over the ever growing number of US drone strikes being launched in and around Pakistan's tribal areas, Pakistan's military appears to be taking the growing public disquiet over the attacks more seriously, and is...
