While President Barack Obama has already pledged that the United States will "responsibly leave Iraq to its people," and is planning to ask the military to draft a plan to get troops out in 16 months, but comments from General Ray Odierno, the top US commander in...
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has demanded a full explanation from Israel regarding its attacks on UN schools and other facilities during the 22-day war in the Gaza Strip, which he called "outrageous." After the statement by Secretary General Ban, the...
President Obama will reportedly sign a new executive order calling for the detention center at Guantanamo Bay to be closed within a year, and will also halt the war crimes trials in the meantime. It remains unclear when he will sign the draft, however. The draft says...
The Israeli High Court of Justice today overturned the Knesset(Israeli Parliament)'s attempt to ban the two Arab political parties with Knesset representation from contesting next month's elections. The decision was unanimous in favor of lifting the ban on the United...
Bodies continued to be pulled from the rubble that used to be the cities of the Gaza Strip today, and the death toll in Israel's 22-day way has now passed 1,400. 5,500 others were also wounded. In addition, two children in Gaza City were killed when they found an...
The Khyber Pass closed briefly again yesterday after a grenade attack on a Pakistani army camp, just the latest in a long string of closings which have threatened NATO's ability to use the route, through which roughly three quarters of all supplies for the war in...
Addressing an enormous crowd at his inauguration, President Barack Obama spoke on a number of issues and told Muslims that "we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect," a nod to international hopes that the United States will embark on a...
According to the Pakistani government, a military offensive against what they described as "hardcore militants" left at least 60 militants dead, and an unknown number of others wounded in the last 24 hours. The forces, backed by artillery, helicopter gunships and war...
As soon as Israel started its war on the Gaza Strip, it became all too clear that the nation's Arab minority, long shunned and distrusted, was to be seen as traitors for their opposition to the attacks. They were arrested for protesting, their political parties were...
Just one day into their three day fact-finding mission to Israel, some high profile US military analysts have taken Israel to task for its behavior in its war on the Gaza Strip. Not for all those people they killed, but rather for all those people they left alive. "I...
