In January and February of 2009, 32 coalition troops were killed in IED attacks, more than a threefold increase over the same period in 2008. The number wounded also rose to 96 from 39, reflecting the enormous increase in violence over the last year (which was itself...
Though Polish President Lech Kaczynski conceded that the planned US missile defense base was not vital "from the point of view of our security from so-called rogue states," he demanded that President Obama go through with the deal signed by President Bush. Citing the...
In a statement released today by the Defense Department describes an incident in the South China Sea in which several ships in the Chinese Navy hassled the unarmed USNS Impeccable, an Ocean Surveillance Ship operating in international waters. The Chinese are...
Late last month the Pakistani Supreme Court declared opposition leader and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz (chief minister of the Punjab Province) ineligible to hold public offices for opposing the 1999 military coup of Pervez Musharraf,...
When Yisrael Beiteinu chief Avigdor Lieberman issued his demands for joining a Netanyahu-led government, the enormity of what he was asking shocked a lot of experts: three major ministerships, including foreign affairs - an unprecedented amount for a 15 seat party....
At a speech for International Women's Day, Afghan President Hamid Karzai declared an interview in which President Barack Obama spoke of "opportunities" to reach out to moderate Taliban "good news," saying this had been the position of the Afghan government for quite...
Some time on Friday night, Afghan National Policemen opened fire on a joint Afghan-US patrol in the Kapisa Province of Afghanistan. The troops returned fire, killing two of the police in what has been described as a case of mistaken identity. The coalition says the...
Speaking at an Israeli cabinet meeting today, Military Intelligence chief Major-General Amos Yadlin declared that Iran "has crossed the technological threshold, so that reaching a military nuclear ability is only a matter of matching the strategy to the goal of...
The Pakistani military showed off its previously declaring victory in the tiny Bajaur Agency today, showing off a captured (and largely destroyed) marketplace and declaring "the resistance has been broken down," providing a rare upnote to the military's ongoing, and...
The US military announced today that 12,000 troops, less than 10 percent of the overall US presence on the ground, will be leaving Iraq in the next 6 months. The announcement that the long-promised pullout will continue at a snail's pace was further marred, however,...
