Tony Blair had at least six private meetings with former Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi in the three years after being Prime Minister. Blair is facing public pressure to make known the details of those private meetings, which were presumably not matters of state,...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Saturday he expected the Security Council to finish debating Palestine's application for full United Nations membership within weeks, instead of months. Abbas told reporters after his official submission request that members...
Scores of French citizens with military experience have traveled to Israel to " lend a hand to our brothers facing aggression from the Palestinian occupiers, and to enhance the security of Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria," the foreign fighters' website says. The...
Pakistan's foreign minister on Saturday warned the United States against putting boots on the ground in Pakistan to fight the Haqqani network, which allegedly launches attacks in Afghanistan from North Waziristan and is tied to the Pakistani government. The warning...
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh abruptly returned to his volatile country on Friday in an apparent attempt to secure his grip on the country and resist calls to step down. Saleh has spent months in Saudi Arabia recovering from injuries sustained in an...
Rebel fighters are abandoning one of the ongoing battles against Muammar Gadhafi loyalists, claiming they are tired of the poorly organized leadership and lack of equipment necessary to fight. For weeks the rebels, with assisting air power from NATO war planes, have...
The international response to humanitarian crises is increasingly seen as “intrusive and disempowering” by communities caught up in disasters, according to the World Disasters Report by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. In some of...
US and Israeli-led efforts to stave off the Palestinian Authority's bid for statehood at the United Nations has failed. PA President Mahmoud Abbas will give a speech on Friday before the UN, and then submit his application for full Palestinian membership. This could...
The military's widespread use of unmanned aerial vehicles to attack and surveil various war zones from Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Libya and others has been some what controversial as a weapon of war. But the ubiquitous drone is now being utilized in...
From 2005-2010, the United States and other donor nations paid for 90 percent of the expenditures of the Afghan government, according to a new study by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). It found that the U.S. paid for 62 percent, while other donor nations...
