Updated 8/30 8:45 PM EST Less than a week after losing their largest coalition partner the Pakistani Peoples Party's internal stability has been called into question, amid reports that acting party leader and presumptive future President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari...
Relief agencies fear that their workers could be put in jeopardy by what they call the "militarization" of humanitarian operations in Georgia. In making the effort a military operation, they fear the line will be blurred between military and civilian aid, and that...
In a meet unusual for its high level of secrecy, Admiral Mike Mullen and General David Petraeus met with the head of Pakistan's military, General Ashfaq Kayani, aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. The meeting focused primarily on the increased fighting...
The US State Department cautioned against getting "overly excited" about the recent increase in tensions with North Korea. Yesterday, North Korea announced that it had suspended disabling its nuclear program two weeks ago, and threatened to renew its nuclear weapons...
Last Updated 8/28 3:50 PM EST French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said the European Union would consider sanctions against Russia along with other unspecified measures during a meeting to be held on the Georgian crisis Monday, at the behest of as-yet unnamed EU...
Last Updated 8/28 12:35 PM EST Around 150 militants were reported killed in a surge of violence on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border. On the Afghan side of the border, 40 Taliban were reported killed in airstrikes after attacking government-run checkpoints in...
The United States' early proposal would have kept troops within Iraq to 2015, says Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, while the Iraqi government had originally sought a date of 2010. The date is reportedly fixed at 2011, though President Talabani says that the Iraqi...
Last Updated 8/26 8:40 PM EST Earlier this month when presumptive Republican Presidential Nominee John McCain declared "we are all Georgians," it is unclear if he was referring to the people of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Yet today the Bush Administration made it...
Following an investigation by their Assistance Mission for Afghanistan, the United Nations has announced that it is convinced that a minimum of 90 civilians were killed in Friday's US airstrike in Herat Province. This number, they reported, included 60 children, and...
Pakistani Muslim League-N Leader Nawaz Sharif announced today that his party would leave Pakistan's coalition government to join the opposition bench, after new President Asif Ali Zardari's Pakistani Peoples Party reneged on its previous promise to restore some 60...
