Top Pentagon officials are floating an idea to put elite special operations forces under CIA control in Afghanistan after 2014, sources told The Associated Press. The plan is one of several possible scenarios being considered and has not yet been presented to...
The one issue President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are preoccupied with in their diplomatic meetings this weekend is Iran, whereas the Israeli-Palestinian issue is receiving almost no attention. In diplomatic overtures only a year ago,...
U.S. and Afghan authorities disagree about whether to not the U.S. military's burning of Muslim holy books was intentional after a joint investigation that was ordered by Marine Gen. John Allen. U.S. officials involved in the investigation found it was a mistake...
In an extensive interview, President Obama said he will try to "persuade the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to postpone whatever plans he may have to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities in the coming months." Israeli leaders have repeatedly complained that...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is not backing down from his two demands for a strategic deal in negotiations with the U.S., steadfastly calling for Afghan control of jails and an end to night raids on Afghan homes. The Obama administration has been working on a...
Israeli officials are again complaining that public statements from top U.S. officials have not been sufficiently supportive of waging war on Iran and have played into the hands of the Ayatollahs. This is not a first. Last month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,...
The head of the United Nations mission in Afghanistan said Thursday that the U.S. should take disciplinary action against those in the military who participated in burning Muslim holy books. "We were very concerned, as the UN, that the international military by...
The Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby said on Thursday he was opposed to violence or direct military intervention as a way to resolve the Syrian crisis, even after leading Gulf states pushed for arming the Syrian opposition. Saudi Arabia and Qatar have argued explicitly...
Two U.S. soldiers were shot dead in southern Afghanistan on Thursday by an Afghan soldier and apparently an Afghan civilian, in the latest incidence of supposed NATO allies turning on occupation forces. The Afghan soldier involved in the attack was a platoon leader...
Top secret information on the Saudi Arabia’s activities around the time of the September 11, 2001 suggest the Saudi government might have played a direct role in the terrorist attacks, according to two former U.S. senators privy to such information. In a...
