The recently announced co-chair of Presidential candidate Mitt Romney's Middle East advisory group is Walid Phares. He is dubbed as an academic and a counter-terrorism expert and is one of the primary advisers of Romney's foreign policy. But as Mother Jones reports,...
Embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a longtime American ally, is still benefiting from US support, despite tenuous calls for him to step down. But tensions are building as calls for his ouster intensify and as Washington's concerns drift farther from his...
US and NATO officials are claiming that Afghan forces could soon start taking charge of security in large portions of northern and western Afghanistan, in preparation the fuller transition ostensibly set for 2014. After the second phase of the transition begins in...
The Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan has decided to not reveal its full findings and materials to the public for another two decades, despite its stated purposes of investigating and exposing government waste. The Commission has been at work...
Authorities in Singapore have arrested four citizens of Singapore in connection with a US request for extradition for allegedly exporting radio equipment to Iran that subsequently ended up in roadside bombs in Iraq, according a Justice Department statement released...
Since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003, the New York Federal Reserve has been shipping tens of billions of dollars to the government and central bank of Iraq, ostensibly for reconstruction and resumption of governmental services after the fall of Saddam Hussein....
The US government's program to train the Iraqi police could become a "bottomless pit" for American taxpayers, according to a report by the US Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR). Due to various bureaucratic and logistical features of the program,...
Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman declared Monday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is an “obstacle” to peace "that needs to be removed.” In a press conference, Lieberman angrily chastised the Palestinian leader, saying Abbas is leading a campaign to...
Fifty-three pro-Gadhafi individuals were executed at a hotel in the Libyan town of Sirte last week, according to Human Rights Watch. At the time of the killings, the hotel was in an area under the control of National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters from Misrata....
The international market for deadly drone technology is heating up as more and more governments, from Israel to China, moving to get a piece of the new weapon of choice in the 21st century. States are eager for the stealthy, deadly, and relatively cheap unmanned...
