Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced today that his nation would begin a "large-scale" rearmament campaign for both its army and navy starting in 2011 in response to persisting threats to the nation's security. Pointing to NATO's continued expansion and the...
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell tried to play up the seriousness of the alleged Iranian drone shot down by US forces inside Iraqi airspace, declaring it to be one of "multiple methods of destabilizing the government in Iraq, of providing extremist groups with the...
Talks between Israel's outgoing Kadima government and Hamas appear to have fallen through, and there will be no prisoner swap to free jailed Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in return for hundreds of Hamas detainees. Official rhetoric which emphasized the enormous value...
The reinstatement of Chief Justice Iftkhar Muhammad Chaudhry yesterday brought an end to the government's imposition of emergency rule over much of the nation and turned massive protests into celebrations in short order. But what Pakistani officials have been...
Despite the growing harm being done to US-Russian relations by the proposed US missile defense system in Poland, Obama Administration officials maintain that it is vital to defend against the Iranian "threat." But in addition to having cost over $144 billion since...
US forces attacked and shot down an Iranian drone last month just inside the Iraqi border. The drone was in Iraqi air space for over an hour before the attack, but was still less than 8 miles into Iraqi territory. Military spokesman Lt. Col. Mark Ballesteros declared...
A 12 year old Iraqi girl was killed today when US forces fired "warning shots" at a vehicle in Nineveh Province. The press release said the girl was standing about 100 meters behind the vehicle which was being warned: it was not clear if the drivers of the vehicle...
As has been the case virtually every day recently, Pakistanis were out on the streets in force today. Yet the tenor of today's gatherings were considerably different - where the previous rallies protested the Zardari government's crackdowns and were met with fierce...
In an interview today on the Charlie Rose show, Admiral Michael Mullen cautioned that a unilateral Israeli attack on Iran could endanger the stability entire region, leading to an escalation that could imperil American forces in the Gulf region. Then Mullen spoke...
Last week Afghanistan's Ambassador to the United States Said T. Jawad lashed out at the "defeatist and reductionist" western governments. Today, those governments continued a series of statements suggesting that, as the situation in Afghanistan continues to worsen,...
