In what one senior UN official described as a "significant" discovery, the word now is that the test samples taken from the Syrian site attacked by Israel in 2007 contained traces of graphite and 80 uranium particles, a trivial amount. The United States had claimed...
While earlier today Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni seemed resigned to putting her Kadima party in the opposition, she is now backing off of those claims. Now the Kadima head says she would be open to joining a Likud-led coalition, but under certain conditions....
While the cost of the American war in Afghanistan is bound to surge as the number of troops do, an often overlooked expense is the monthly stipend provided to the Pakistani government for its own military aid. That expense has been deferred, however, in that the US...
A key endorsement from Avigdor Lieberman this morning is likely to secure Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party the first opportunity to form the next Israeli government. The 15 seats of Yisrael Beiteinu will bring the total of supporters of Netanyahu's position up to 65...
Afghan authorities confirmed today that at least 13 civilians, including six women and two children, were killed in a US missile strike near Herat. The US said the strike targeted a "key insurgent commander." Military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Rick Helmer said in a...
It has been over two months since Iraqi parliamentary speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani angrily resigned his post, and it looks like after considerable infighting and several failed attempts the parliament is finally poised to select his replacement... a replacement that...
Israeli President Shimon Peres today began a series of talks with the leaders of the nations various political parties, and will in the next few days determine which party gets the first opportunity to attempt to form a coalition government. Though the post-election...
Hot on the heals of the announcement that President Barack Obama had approved adding 17,000 more US troops to the war in Afghanistan, top US commander in Afghanistan General David McKiernan conceded that the level of violence in the nation was increasing and expressed...
There has been plenty of talk over the past several months that the Pakistani government had come to some sort of secret understanding with the United States about its continued use of Predator drones to launch attacks on Pakistani soil. But with the Pakistani...
Israeli President Shimon Peres will begin talks with political parties tomorrow as the first stage of making his decision which party to charge with attempting to form a coalition government. The most interesting meeting however will be on Thursday morning, when Peres...
