It's the second day of the new year and the United States has launched its second attack in South Waziristan. Tribal sources had been reporting two US drones hovering over the area of Ladha Tehsil, in South Waziristan Agency, before the attack. The two Hellfire...
With an almost impossible level of control over the media's access to information regarding its attacks on the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military is reportedly quite pleased with the "fair" coverage of the international media. But as it expands its own direct coverage...
As an Israeli High Court hearing got underway on the decision of police to ban an antiwar rally scheduled for late Saturday, police announced that they had reversed their decision, and would allow the rally to proceed as planned. Police initially has said they would...
Israel's long-standing ban on foreign journalists entering the Gaza Strip has made accurate and up-to-date reporting on the now week-long war among the most difficult propositions in the modern era. Most stories rely on official reports from Hamas, the United Nations,...
As was widely expected, the United States rejected an attempt by the Arab League to push a legally-binding resolution through the United Nations Security Council calling for Israel to immediately halt its attacks on the Gaza Strip. As a permanent member of the...
2008 was the most violent year yet of the seven year war in Afghanistan, and nowhere was this more apparent then in the nation's south. Attacks were not only on the rise, but in many places the Taliban is setting up "shadow governments" to compete with the US-backed...
"There is no humanitarian crisis in the (Gaza) Strip." Those were the words of Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni today during her visit to Paris, as she defended Israel's rejection of a proposed 48-hour humanitarian ceasefire to allow food and medicine into the...
As the international community continues to pressure Israel for a humanitarian ceasefire, they are racing not just against a growing humanitarian disaster, but against the clock, for once the troops are in the strip a 48-hour halt will become a much tougher sell. And...
An Israeli air strike today killed Nizar Ghayan, an influential Hamas figure, as well as nine women and 11 children. Though the overall toll in the strip is difficult to ascertain amid the chaotic situation on the ground, reports are that the toll is now at least 425...
With the Gaza toll rising, nowhere is popular outrage at the Israeli attacks more apparent than in the Arab world. As it rallies its public relations team to placate concerns about the carnage, it is only natural that attention should be given to the Arabic language...
