Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned today that the European Union monitors in the buffer zone between Georgia and the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia are "playing with fire" in ignoring a reported upsurge in violence in the region. Lavrov...
Pakistan's parliament has approved a 14-point resolution with seemingly sweeping ramifications for the nation's counterterrorism policy. Among other things, it calls for Pakistan to make dialogue with militant groups "the highest priority as a principal instrument of...
After several delays and threatened cancellations, 25 US military personnel arrived in Pakistan some time last week to begin a controversial training program aimed at bolstering Pakistan's Frontier Corps (FC). The program would not directly train the corps itself, but...
The current UN mandate for international troops in Iraq is set to expire on December 31, and as the United States and Iraq still struggle to put a mutually acceptable Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) in place, the focus is increasingly on what will happen January 1...
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....
