While the fighting in Iraq continues to kill scores of civilians every week, the relative decline in violence over last year's levels has been the cause of much optimism among war weary Americans and touted by President Bush as a vindication of his "surge" strategy....
Early this morning US forces surrounded a home in a small village near the Iraqi town of Tikrit and destroyed it with an air strike, killing eight people. According to Iraqi police and neighbors, all those killed were civilians. One of the neighbors reported his home...
The United States is reportedly mulling further steps against Russia beyond the move announced earlier this month suspending a US-Russia civilian nuclear pact. It is unclear what these further measures might include, but State Department official William Burns told...
Tensions between the United States and Pakistan continued to deteriorate today after Defense Secretary Robert Gates insisted that the United States has the right to launch attacks into Pakistani territory. Pakistani Prime Minister Raza Gilani released a statement...
Updated 9/18 8:10 PM EST If last night's attack in South Waziristan threw into doubt Admiral Michael Mullen's earlier promise that the United States would respect Pakistan's sovereignty over its tribal areas amid reports of further planned US escalation in the region,...
Just days after General David McKiernan announced his "revised tactical order" designed to reduce the number of civilians killed in NATO raids, Australian special forces surrounded a house in the Afghan province of Oruzgan and opened fire, killing district governor...
The Crimean Parliament voted today 79-8 to press the Ukrainian government to recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. It seems highly unlikely that the Ukrainian government will act on the call given the collapse of its coalition government and the...
Much has been said in the past week about Admiral Michael Mullen's talk of a "new, more comprehensive" strategy in Afghanistan before the House Armed Services Committee, and while the focus of this strategy has been the US escalation in Pakistan, The Independent has...
Updated 9/18 10:35 AM EST US ties with Pakistan took another hit today after US drones launched yet another attack in the South Waziristan Agency, killing seven and injuring three others. Pakistani Prime Minister Raza Gilani condemned the strike, which is just the...
Admiral Michael Mullen made a surprise visit to Pakistan yesterday. and according to the US Embassy he "reiterated the US commitment to respect Pakistan's sovereignty". Just hours later, US drones fired four missiles into South Waziristan, killing at least seven and...
