US Troops To Shift Out of Iraqi Cities by June
In early 2007 the United States began a military surge into Iraq, adding some 38,000 troops to the force and increasing their focus on major...
Barzani Warns of Civil War as Cabinet Vote on Pact Looms
Iraqi Finance Minister Baqer Jabr Solagh says that the Iraqi Cabinet will vote on the controversial Status of Forces Agreement with the United States sometime...
Military Experts Say ‘New’ Iranian Missile Is Just an Old One With a Different Name
Iranian Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammed Najjar announced today that his government had successfully test-fired the next generation of their long range surface-to-surface missiles, dubbed the...
Iraqi-US Soldiers’ Argument Leads to Deadly Shoot-Out
This afternoon, a US military patrol stopped to inspect an Iraqi military checkpoint in a Sunni neighborhood in western Mosul. According to Iraqi personnel and...
Minute Uranium Traces Complicate Syria Investigation
The media has been abuzz with reports from diplomats that the IAEA discovered minute traces of processed uranium in samples taken from the suspected Syrian...
Israeli Vice Premier Eyes Destruction of Gaza Villages
Last week's Israeli raid on a house in the Gaza Strip led to a barrage of missiles and retaliatory strikes from both sides. The situation...
Taliban’s Khyber Pass Hijacking Threatens NATO Supply Route
Without firing a shot, dozens of militants along the Khyber Pass border between Pakistan and Afghanistan managed to hijack a convoy of trucks bound for...
Obama Mulls Keeping Gates on Board
As Obama's aides continue to try to stifle hopes for the radical policy changes that were a cornerstone of his sweeping electoral victory, the surest...
Israel to Resume Limited Fuel Supplies Amid Gaza Blackouts
With more than half of the Gaza Strip's 1,500,000 residents without power, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has decided to allow "limited" amounts of industrial...
Not So Fast: Aides Warn Obama’s Quick Closure of Gitmo Will Be Anything But
Though newspapers have been reporting all day that President-elect Barack Obama intends to move swiftly to close the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay as...
Pakistan to Force Bajaur Tribesmen to Fight Militants
With Pakistan's several month long offensive in Bajaur still causing a humanitarian nightmare in the tiny agency and no real end in sight as the...
Security Guards or Suspected Militants: US Kills 14 in Afghanistan
The US military stopped vehicles carrying "suspected militants," sparking a clash which left 14 of them dead. The US used helicopters in the fight and...
