In a significant effort to repair the strained relationship between them and the United States, the Russian government has announced that it will abandon its threatened deployment of Iskander missiles to the exclave of Kaliningrad. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir...
The German magazine Der Spiegel has obtained classified documents in which NATO top commander and US General John Craddock, a long time advocate of steering the international forces in Afghanistan toward fighting the drug export industry, issues a "guidance" advising...
The Pakistani military continued to shell the Swat Valley today, and reported that only seven militants were among the at least 18 people killed. 11 militants and an unknown number of civilians were also wounded the attacks. The military has been escalating its...
NATO spokesman James Appathurai told reporters today that the international forces were responsible for killing 97 Afghan civilians in 2008 based on what he referred to as their "new tracking system." The number is just the latest in an ongoing trend of dramatic...
The French Foreign Ministry summoned Israeli ambassador Daniel Shek today over an incident in which a convoy of French diplomats, including the nation's consul general were blocked from crossing the Gaza border for over six hours and shot at by Israeli troops. The...
US drones loomed large in the skies over North Waziristan today, flying over villages and sewing panic in a region which has seen scores of residents killed in attacks by those drones over the past few months. On Friday similar drones killed 22 people, including...
"If we set ourselves the objective of creating some sort of central Asian Valhalla over there, we will lose, because nobody in the world has that kind of time, patience and money, to be honest." While speaking to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Secretary of...
Credit for the roadside bombing which killed an Israeli soldier along the Gaza border earlier today has been claimed by the Jihad and Tawhid Brigades, an al-Qaeda linked group which has repeatedly clashed with Hamas. Still, the Israeli military says that even though...
Former Justice Department employee James Lindsay released a report today titled "Fixing UNRWA: Repairing the UN's Troubled System of Aid to Palestinian Refugees" which took the United Nations Relief and Works Agency to task for, among other things, treating the...
With an eye toward finding yet more nations in which to intervene, President Barack Obama is reportedly seeking a "fresh approach" to the goal of driving Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe from office. The fresh approach seems anything but: aides say the strategy will...
