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...
In a move many see as retaliation for the February recognition of independence for Kosovo, both houses of Russia's parliament voted unanimously to recognize the independence of the separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Though not legally binding, the vote...
As the fallout from the Herat bombing continues, Afghan President Hamid Karzai issued a Presidential decree today ordering the immediate firing of two Army officials, including the top ranking officer in western Afghanistan, General Jalandar Shah Behnam, for...
