The Afghan government announced today that it has arrested 48 members of the Afghan police force over suspicion of aiding the Taliban insurgency and that 12 others eluded capture and joined the Taliban. The announcement comes just a day after a Taliban statement...
In addition to announcing a massive military offensive in the Khyber Agency, the Pakistani government today proclaimed the Khyber Pass, the source of nearly three quarters of the supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan, closed until further notice. The military imposed...
With the death toll in the Gaza Strip still rapidly rising, incoming President-elect Barack Obama's initial reaction of "no immediate comment" has seamlessly segued into an official policy of no comment, period. As Obama and family continue to enjoy a luxurious...
Updated 12/31 6:55 PM EST As the aerial bombardment of the Gaza Strip moves into its fifth day, the death toll has now crossed the 400 mark. The number is doubtless to rise further as an unknown number remain buried under the rubble in the densely populated strip....
Israeli Arabs may constitute more than 20 percent of the nation's population, but as the majority loudly cheers on the military's attacks on the Gaza Strip the largely antiwar Arabs are finding themselves a disenfranchised and increasingly distrusted minority. Its...
Speaking again on the situation in the Gaza Strip Sallay Meridor, Israel's Ambassador to the United States, declared that "what you see in Gaza is made by Iran - its funded by Iran, the terrorists are trained by Iran, it's supplied by Iran, the know-how to create...
Israeli ministers say they will consider a proposed 48-hour ceasefire offered by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner. The ceasefire is designed to allow time for humanitarian aid to be delivered to the struggling civilians in the Gaza Strip. Israeli Defense...
Across the world, mainstream journalists are expressing increasing disquiet at the way the Israeli government is trying to manage international coverage of its war on the Gaza Strip. Journalists have been barred not just from the strip itself, but the government is...
The SS Dignity, the chartered ship the Free Gaza Movement has repeatedly used to deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip is no stranger to Israeli threats. Still, despite being condemned as "provocateurs" by an Israeli government that has threatened the use of...
An Israeli soldier was killed in a mortar strike on a military base in western Negev today, and a civilian was killed in a strike on the city of Ashdod. A handful of others were also wounded in the attacks from the Gaza Strip. The toll in three days of fire from the...
