Promising that "a new era of American leadership is at hand," President Barack Obama has promised that the United States "will not torture" detainees. A series of presidential orders will outlaw rendition flights, order the closings of the CIA's "black sites," and...
As recently as yesterday, Obama aides were treating the president's campaign promise for a 16-month timetable to withdraw from Iraq as a working plan. It didn't take long for what many voters assumed was a firm commitment to become, in the parlance of the previous...
UN human rights expert and retired Princeton law professor Richard Falk said today that there is compelling evidence that Israel violated the laws of war by "conducting a large-scale military operation against an essentially defenseless population." "There needs to be...
The United Nations is pressuring Israel for a more plausible explanation for why so many of their facilities were attacked during the 22-day war on the Gaza Strip. Those attacks caused scores of civilian casualties, just some of the thousands of civilians killed and...
Updated 1/22/09 12:00 PM EST A newly drafted executive order signed by President Barack Obama will fulfill a campaign promise to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. The order will require the facility to close within a year. The facility where detainees were...
Kosovo officially launched its new military, the Kosovo Security Force (KSF) to replace the civilian Kosovar Protection Service, which was made up chiefly of separatists from the 1998-99 war against the Serbian government. NATO will support the recruitment drive for...
Yesterday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai told lawmakers that his government had sent a draft agreement to NATO headquarters, designed to give him more control over future NATO deployments. Among other things, the agreement would bar NATO forces from searching Afghan...
President Barack Obama met with top military commanders today to get a full update on the situation in Iraq and to ask them to begin drawing up an Iraq exit strategy. "I asked the military leadership to engage in additional planning necessary to execute a responsible...
While President Barack Obama has already pledged that the United States will "responsibly leave Iraq to its people," and is planning to ask the military to draft a plan to get troops out in 16 months, but comments from General Ray Odierno, the top US commander in...
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has demanded a full explanation from Israel regarding its attacks on UN schools and other facilities during the 22-day war in the Gaza Strip, which he called "outrageous." After the statement by Secretary General Ban, the...
