Russian newspapers are reporting this evening that President Barack Obama has offered to abandon America's controversial missile defense shield program in Eastern Europe in return for Russian help in stopping Iran's civilian nuclear program. Such a move had been...
Gates: US Military Can Help Mexico in Drug War
In an interview today on NBC, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that the US is in position to provide more help to the Mexican government to continue its fighting against drug cartels along the two nations' border. Gates declared the drug war "a serious problem,"...
Lieberman to Meet With Heads of Religious Parties
On Monday, Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman is scheduled to meet with representatives from some of Israel's religious parties, in an attempt to come to some sort of understanding over the differences that are standing in the way of a narrow far right...
Karzai Condemned for ‘Early’ Elections
On January 29, the Afghan Election Commission decided to delay the nation's presidential elections until at least August 20. This would've effectively kept Afghan President Hamid Karzai in office for several months after his term ends (on May 22), and was publicly...
Barak Presses for Labor to Join Netanyahu’s Coalition
It hasn't even been a week since the Labor Party publicly ruled out joining a right-wing coalition government headed by Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu, but the prospect of moving from a key ministership to head of a secondary opposition party already has party...
Mixed Signals on Iran’s Nuke Capability
The Obama Administration's attempts to characterize Iran's civilian nuclear program as simultaneously a grave threat and something which officials have well in hand has had the nasty side effect of sending enormously mixed signals to the international community over...
At Least 12 Killed in US Drone Strike in South Waziristan
Updated 3/1/09 6:45 PM EST Pakistani intelligence officials confirmed today that the missile attacks on a house in Sararogha, South Waziristan Agency came from a US drone. Joint Chiefs chairman Admiral Michael Mullen declined to comment on the specifics of the...
Afghans Protest Alleged NATO Gunshots in Mosque
Hundreds of angry protesters in Afghanistan's Ghazni Province blocked roads and clashed with police today in protest over a reported incident in which Polish soldiers fired on a village mosque. The Polish Defense Ministry denied any knowledge of any sort of incident...
Likud-Kadima Coalition Talks Fail
It was a familiar story today when Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party met with their centrist rival Kadima (the top vote-getting in this month's elections) on forming a coalition. A lot of talk, no agreements, and both sides blaming the other for the failure. Kadima...
Obama Sells Continuation of Iraq War as the New Pullout Plan
Then-President George W. Bush declared "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq, and then proceeded to keep the war going for the remaining five and a half years of his presidency. In a speech today at Camp Lajeune, North Carolina took a page out of his predecessor's book when...