The US military announced today that 12,000 troops, less than 10 percent of the overall US presence on the ground, will be leaving Iraq in the next 6 months. The announcement that the long-promised pullout will continue at a snail's pace was further marred, however,...
Though they left open the question of presidential orders to detain legal residents by refusing to take up the case of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, the Supreme Court made a significant statement against such detentions by vacating a split 2008 decision by the Court of...
Considering 2008 was the most violent year in Afghanistan since the 2001 American invasion and predictions that 2009 would be even worse, it hardly seems a shock that the winter of 2008-09 has been quite a bit more violent than normal. Yet Colonel Pete Johnson gave...
Details of a 17-point plan for Swat Valley agreed to earlier this week between Pakistani forces and Sufi Muhammad, head of the Tehreek-e Nafaz-e Shariat-e Mohammad (TNSM) weren't made immediately available at the time of its signing, but it seems now that it is just...
Most of the previous criticism of President Barack Obama's "pullout" plan from Iraq has centered around it being less a pullout plan than a plan to continue the war indefinitely. But after a week of getting used to the idea that 50,000 troops will remain on the ground...
Ahead of her meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton raised a rather unique possible solution for the controversial missile defense system in Eastern Europe. Russia, she insisted, might have the opportunity for "joint...
The Supreme Court today vacated a ruling by the US Court of Appeals in the case of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, a legal resident of the United States who was declared by then-President Bush to be an enemy combatant and held without charges for several years. They did...
Just one day after Afghanistan's Election Commission overturned President Hamid Karzai's decision to hold the presidential election, as the constitution requires, before his term ends on May 22, rival candidates said they felt Karzai should resign at the end of his...
Avigdor Lieberman, the controversial leader of the Yisrael Beiteinu party which scored a major gain in last month's elections, seems set to join Benjamin Netanyahu's would-be coalition government, putting the role of foreign minister in the hands of one of these least...
Today, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proposed a high-level international conference on Afghanistan, which would be sponsored by the United Nations and would seek to arrive at a "common set of principles, perhaps embodied in a chairman's statement, on a common way...
