US envoy Richard Holbrooke says that the Obama Administration is "troubled and confused" by the deal earlier this week to end the fighting in Pakistan's Swat Valley in return for the implementation of aspects of Islamic law in Malakand. "I am concerned, and I know...
Fresh off the charge that Iran had understated the amount of uranium it had enriched, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said today that Iran 'continues to renege' on its international obligations and called the nation an "urgent problem that has to be...
Israeli President Shimon Peres has tapped Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu to make the first attempt to form a coalition government in the wake of last week's elections. The announcement was widely expected after Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman endorsed...
The already simmering tensions in Pakistan's tribal areas took another hit today, when a suicide bomber attacked the funeral procession of an assassinated Shi'ite leader in Dera Ismail Khan, killing at least 30 and injuring an additional 65. The Pakistani army has...
Muntadar al-Zeidi, the Iraqi journalist who made headlines worldwide for throwing his shoes at then-President George W. Bush, has had an interesting two months: he went from obscure journalist to international folk-hero, spent time in the hospital for injuries...
En route to an official visit to South Korea, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters that the Obama Administration was preparing for various scenarios surrounding possible succession in North Korea. Clinton said that even a peaceful succession "may...
While the endorsement of Yisrael Beiteinu chief Avigdor Lieberman has likely secured the Likud Party the first opportunity to form a coalition government, but getting the controversial right-winger to actually join that coalition is going to cost would-be Prime...
In what one senior UN official described as a "significant" discovery, the word now is that the test samples taken from the Syrian site attacked by Israel in 2007 contained traces of graphite and 80 uranium particles, a trivial amount. The United States had claimed...
While earlier today Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni seemed resigned to putting her Kadima party in the opposition, she is now backing off of those claims. Now the Kadima head says she would be open to joining a Likud-led coalition, but under certain conditions....
While the cost of the American war in Afghanistan is bound to surge as the number of troops do, an often overlooked expense is the monthly stipend provided to the Pakistani government for its own military aid. That expense has been deferred, however, in that the US...
