The question of whether or not to enter a center-right coalition government with the Likud Party remains a controversial one in the Kadima Party, and while party leader Tzipi Livni continues to publicly rule it out, Netanyahu isn't giving up. Today, the would-be prime...
Even as he seems to have consolidated his support on the Israeli right, Benjamin Netanyahu's long-standing ambition to form a grand coalition including "all of the Zionist parties" seems to be very close to dead in the water. Ehud Barak's Labor Party today ruled out...
US military officials confirmed today that more than 70 military advisers have been secretly working with Pakistan's military as part of a "secret task force" training the Pakistani army and paramilitaries, as well as providing them with intelligence. The program...
Military spokesman Major General David Perkins told reporters today that there was "no doubt" that the US would have all troops out of Iraq's cities by June, as required by the Status of Forces Agreement signed last year. The announcement came as something of a...
Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu seems like he's got a good chance of forming a right-wing government at some point in the next month and a half, but he hasn't given up on his pre-election goal of a unity government. Talks today with the Kadima party didn't end with...
Despite the attention being paid to claims that Iran has enough uranium to hypothetically build a nuclear weapon, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says that Iran is "not there yet" as far as the capability of making weapons is concerned. Iran has enriched...
Much hay was made late last week over the allegation that the Iranian government had underreported the amount of urnaium it had enriched through November. The White House accused Iran of reneging on its international obligations, and called the nation an "urgent...
Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) seems to have solved most of its major militancy problems when the local Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chapter affirmed that it would agree to a permanent ceasefire based on last week's promise to implement aspects of...
After considerable negotiation the Swat Valley chapter of the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) agreed to a permanent ceasefire in the war-torn region. The move seemed to solidify the agreement last week between the government and the powerful cleric Sufi Muhammad,...
President Barack Obama made clear his desire to launch attacks onto Pakistani soil early in the campaign, and in his first month since taking office it has become evident that is escalating the number and severity of the attacks using drone aircraft well beyond what...
