For the second time in the past few days, the Pakistani Senate has strongly condemned the recent US drone strikes in North and South Waziristan. The resolution labeled the strikes "unfortunate" and a gross violation of Pakistani sovereignty. Senate leader Raza Rabbani...
While the White House has declined comment and other US officials defended the strike on a Syrian border town yesterday which killed eight, international condemnation rained down on the strike from a number of sources. The Syrian government, which already summoned the...
US General David McKiernan, the top NATO commander in Afghanistan, is sick and tired of seeing headlines reporting how badly the war in Afghanistan is going. Sure, civilian deaths may be soaring, troop death may be at their highest level since the 2001 invasion, and...
After failing to convince the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party to join a new coalition government, Kadima Party leader Tzipi Livni has advised Israeli President Shimon Peres to call for a new election. President Peres did not immediately set a date, saying he wanted to...
As the United States struggles to get Iraqi officials to change their position on the all-but-dead Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) top US commander General Ray Odierno has issued a three-page letter to high ranking Iraqi officials. The letter includes a list of...
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani publicly condemned the "intolerable" series of unilateral US drone strikes launched in North and South Waziristan in the past two months at a press conference today. He said the strike were an attack on Pakistan's national...
An unnamed US military official has confirmed the attack on the Syrian border town of al-Sukkariya earlier this evening, which killed at least eight and wounded 14 others. He said the attack targeted "elements of a robust foreign fighter logistics network" and that...
Updated 10/26 6:50 PM EST A US drone attack on a suspected "militant compound" near South Waziristan Agency's main city of Wana has destroyed the compound, and killed at least 20 people. This is the second reported US drone strike in the past few days, and the 12th in...
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...
