With political and popular support drying up and the Iraqi Council of Ministers unanimously demanding several amendments, the last draft of the Status of Forces...
Oct 24, 2008 | Jason Ditz
Numerous lawmakers from Pakistan’s Upper House of Parliament from several political parties condemned yesterday’s US drone strike in a village near Miramshah, North Waziristan, which...
Oct 24, 2008 | Jason Ditz
Turkish military spokesman Brigadier General Metin Gurak said today that last week’s air strikes into northern Iraq killed 25 Kurdish rebels and wounded an unknown...
Oct 24, 2008 | Jason Ditz
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned today that the European Union monitors in the buffer zone between Georgia and the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and...
Oct 23, 2008 | Jason Ditz
Pakistan's parliament has approved a 14-point resolution with seemingly sweeping ramifications for the nation's counterterrorism policy. Among other things, it calls for Pakistan to make...
Oct 23, 2008 | Jason Ditz
After several delays and threatened cancellations, 25 US military personnel arrived in Pakistan some time last week to begin a controversial training program aimed at...
Oct 23, 2008 | Jason Ditz
The current UN mandate for international troops in Iraq is set to expire on December 31, and as the United States and Iraq still struggle...
Oct 23, 2008 | Jason Ditz
Wakil Ahmad Mutawakil, the former Foreign Minister of Afghanistan before the 2001 invasion ousted the Taliban regime, has warned against a planned 2009 military surge...
Oct 22, 2008 | Jason Ditz
In the fourth such accusation in the past month, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell today accused the Iranian government of meddling "in its most destructive, devious...
Oct 22, 2008 | Jason Ditz
Updated 10/23 6:30 PM EST A missile attack by what is assumed to be a US drone has targeted a village near Miramshah in North...
Oct 22, 2008 | Jason Ditz
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen was in Lithuania today hoping to reassure former-Soviet Republics and current NATO members Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia...
Oct 22, 2008 | Jason Ditz
Beset by a rising civilian death toll and widespread corruption charges Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who once boasted an enormous approval rating, is seen as...
Oct 22, 2008 | Jason Ditz