In a speech today in Washington, CIA Director Michael Hayden warned that over seven years after the beginning of America's war on terror al-Qaeda remains the single gravest threat to the United States. While touting the deaths of al-Qaeda leaders in Pakistan's tribal...
In a follow-up on reports earlier this week that President-elect Barack Obama was considering approaching current Secretary of Defense Robert Gates about staying in his position after the handover of power in January, McClatchy is reporting that this has gone beyond...
A suicide bomber in a Toyota Corolla attacked a US military convoy near a crowded market just outside of Jalalabad, Afghanistan today, killing at least 21 people, including one US soldier. The explosion wounded another 74 people near the heavily trafficked livestock...
The Independent is reporting tonight that Afghan President Hamid Karzai, in Britain on a brief visit for Prince Charles' 60th birthday party, will hold a secret meeting with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. During the meeting, Karzai is expected to brief Brown on...
In early 2007 the United States began a military surge into Iraq, adding some 38,000 troops to the force and increasing their focus on major Iraqi cities. Nearly two years later, with the troop level still not back to pre-surge levels they are preparing a reverse in...
Iraqi Finance Minister Baqer Jabr Solagh says that the Iraqi Cabinet will vote on the controversial Status of Forces Agreement with the United States sometime this weekend. The current draft appears to be the final one, with only a month left to ratify the SOFA and...
Iranian Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammed Najjar announced today that his government had successfully test-fired the next generation of their long range surface-to-surface missiles, dubbed the Sajjil. Minister Najjar touted the missile as having "extraordinary high...
This afternoon, a US military patrol stopped to inspect an Iraqi military checkpoint in a Sunni neighborhood in western Mosul. According to Iraqi personnel and witnesses, an argument broke out during which one of the American soldiers cursed Iraqi soldier Barzan...
The media has been abuzz with reports from diplomats that the IAEA discovered minute traces of processed uranium in samples taken from the suspected Syrian nuclear installation destroyed by Israel last September. IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei seems irked by attempts to...
Last week's Israeli raid on a house in the Gaza Strip led to a barrage of missiles and retaliatory strikes from both sides. The situation seems to have calmed down since then, though a rocket yesterday fired from the strip did hit Israel: causing no damage and no...
