Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will continue negotiating with the US on a deal to keep a contingent of troops in Iraq, despite President Barack Obama's announcement on Friday that all troops would be withdrawn in December. Obama made the announcement after a...
Turkish troops have killed at least 49 Kurdish rebels in a valley near the Iraqi border, as hundreds of troops hunted down Kurdish fighters inside northern Iraq. Earlier in the week, the Turkish government dispatched around 10,000 troops to their border with Iraq to...
Afghanistan would side with Pakistan in case of military conflict between Pakistan and the United States, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said in an interview on Saturday. "God forbid, If ever there is a war between Pakistan and America, Afghanistan will side with...
President Barack Obama announced Friday that all United States forces will withdraw from Iraq by the end of this year and, as he put it, "America's war in Iraq will be over." But the complete withdrawal may not actually be what it seems and the way this announcement...
Remarking on Muammar Gadhafi's death on Thursday, President Barack Obama hailed it as a warning to Middle Eastern dictatorships "the rule of an iron fist inevitably comes to an end." But he obscured his administration's own commitment to authoritarianism in the...
Anonymous US officials are disseminating statements in the media about Iran's Quds Force being "increasingly aggressive" on a "worldwide" scale, after allegations last week that they orchestrated an attempted assassination of a Saudi ambassador in DC. Attempts both...
Afghan and American troops forced civilians to march ahead of them on roads believed to have been filled with bombs and landmines planted by insurgents, according to allegations from villagers in southern Afghanistan. No civilians or soldiers were harmed in the...
Almost 40 people were killed in gun battles in Pakistan's tribal district of Khyber, which lies between Peshawar and Afghanistan and is the main route for US-NATO military supplies in Afghanistan. "At least 34 militants and three [Pakistani] soldiers were killed...
Five Colombian soldiers were accused Tuesday of murdering two farmers, in the latest case of "false positive" killings, in which the US-supported Colombian army kill civilians and report them as combatants. One officer, two sub-officers, and two soldiers of the Army's...
Drone technology is advancing faster than the public or the legal system has time to catch up to their now ubiquitous use in America's many war zones. US troops in Afghanistan will soon be able to deploy what's called the Switchblade, a miniature drone that can be...
