NATO continues to supply occupation forces in Afghanistan through Pakistani airspace, despite Islamabad's closure of supply routes, U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter said on Thursday. In November, U.S. airstrikes destroyed a Pakistani outpost killing 24...
A U.S. drone fired two missiles at a house in Pakistan's northwest tribal region on Thursday, killing three people and wounding three others, according to Pakistani intelligence officials. The attack was the second strike in two days, with another on Wednesday that...
A follow-up report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Iran's nuclear program will be published next month and is expected to be harsher than the last one, which the IAEA released in November. The last IAEA report cobbled together old and...
Israel has financed, trained, and armed Iranian dissident groups in order to carry out terrorist attacks on Iranian soil, according to top U.S. officials. The group, Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK), is designated as a terrorist group by the United States and is accused of...
Only 1 percent of Afghan police and soldiers are capable of operating independently, a top U.S. commander said on Wednesday, proving further that the nation building effort in Afghanistan has failed. U.S. Lieutenant General Curtis Scaparrotti said aboutust 29 Afghan...
Less than two months into 2012, the Iraqi government has executed at least 65 prisoners, as the country continues to slip into dictatorship with continued support from the U.S. Many aspects of the government in Baghdad have spiraled out of control since the end of the...
Violence and government repression of reform-minded protesters in Bahrain has escalated ahead of the February anniversary of the uprisings, as the Obama administration moves ahead with arms shipments to the despotic dictatorship. Defiant Bahraini protesters have...
Congress this week has passed a bill that will give commercial, private, and military drone aircraft greater access to U.S. airspace that’s currently reserved only for manned planes. By September 30, 2015, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) like the kind used by the CIA...
At least 10 people have been killed and more than 20 people injured after a car bomb exploded near a cafe in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. Somali authorities have called it a suicide attack, and although no group has officially taken credit for it the vehicle was...
A U.S. drone attack fired missiles at a house in Pakistan's northwest tribal region near the Afghan border Wednesday, killing eight people, according to Pakistani intelligence officials. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity, barred from speaking about foreign...
