Updated 10/26 6:20 PM EST In a report from local witnesses later confirmed by a Syrian government spokesman, Two US helicopters landed in the Syrian border town of Al-Sukkariya while others remained in the air and eight American soldiers exited. The soldiers killed at...
Updated 10/26 1:45 PM EST US forces called in an air strike in Ghazni Province to fend off a Taliban attack on guards for a road construction project. Now, provincial officials say they are investigating reports that the air strike killed 24 guards. A spokesman for...
The US State Department has summoned Massoud al-Barzani, President of Iraqi Kurdistan, as part of a delegation to Washington DC later this week to discuss ways to rescue the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between the US and Iraq, which top officials are saying is...
In a move expected to be announced sometime after November's US Presidential Election, President Bush will reportedly announce his intentions to establish an "interests section" in Iran. An Interests Section is a diplomatic office operating out of a third nation's...
Hundreds of local residents took to the streets chanting slogans against US forces while Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi's Iraqi Islamic Party announced that it was suspending all official contact with US civilian and military personnel after a Friday morning raid by...
A French unit was surrounded last weekend in Kapisa Province Afghanistan and had to withdraw from the field, leaving behind two anti-tank Milan missiles and a launcher. Journalists say no French soldiers were hurt in the clash, but “all 14 Taliban insurgents were...
Updated 10/26 12:00 PM EST Source close to Tzipi Livni, the new head of Israel’s ruling Kadima Party, accused the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party of having “deceived the entire country” in the wake of today’s announcement that they would not be joining a new coalition...
With political and popular support drying up and the Iraqi Council of Ministers unanimously demanding several amendments, the last draft of the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between Iraq and the US seems all but dead as top Dawa party members say Prime Minister...
Numerous lawmakers from Pakistan’s Upper House of Parliament from several political parties condemned yesterday’s US drone strike in a village near Miramshah, North Waziristan, which killed at least 10 people and wounded an unknown number of others. Leader Raza...
Turkish military spokesman Brigadier General Metin Gurak said today that last week’s air strikes into northern Iraq killed 25 Kurdish rebels and wounded an unknown number of others. Brig. Gen. Gurak cited intelligence reports as the source of his casualty figures. The...
