Wakil Ahmad Mutawakil, the former Foreign Minister of Afghanistan before the 2001 invasion ousted the Taliban regime, has warned against a planned 2009 military surge aimed at defeating the Taliban. Mutawakil predicts that an increase in foreign troops would derail...
In the fourth such accusation in the past month, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell today accused the Iranian government of meddling "in its most destructive, devious and deadly ways," and trying to "undermine" and "derail" the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between...
Updated 10/23 6:30 PM EST A missile attack by what is assumed to be a US drone has targeted a village near Miramshah in North Waziristan. The village is the same one targeted last month in a strike which killed at least 23. It is the site of a religious school founded...
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen was in Lithuania today hoping to reassure former-Soviet Republics and current NATO members Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia in the wake of August's brief war between Russia and Georgia. During the visit, Admiral...
Beset by a rising civilian death toll and widespread corruption charges Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who once boasted an enormous approval rating, is seen as an increasingly ineffective and unacceptable leader by the Afghan population. With the country earlier this...
Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) forces used a roadside bomb to ambush a Pakistani military convoy in northwestern Swat Valley. The ensuing multi-hour firefight left 5 militants and 15 Pakistani soldiers confirmed dead, according to local police officer Noor Rehman....
Coalition and Afghan soldiers briefly traded fire near an Afghan army checkpoint in Khost Province early this morning, before the coalition called in an air strike against the checkpoint, killing nine Afghan soldiers and wounding at least three others. A coalition...
Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabagh issued a statement today harshly criticizing Admiral Michael Mullen's recent warnings regarding Iraqi officials' criticisms of the terms of the latest draft Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). Al-Dabagh warned that the...
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen issued an unusually harsh warning to Iraq regarding the growing resistance to the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). Though he acknowledged that Iraq should engage in "a healthy debate" on the pact, he said he was...
Japan's lower house of parliament approved a bill today to extend its naval refueling mission to landlocked Afghanistan. The bill will allow Japanese ships to continue refueling warships in the Indian Ocean past January 15. The bill is expected to be reject by Japan's...
