With drone attacks already up over threefold from 2007 the US desire to ramp up attacks inside Pakistan even further has run into another wall today as Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff General Parvez Kayani announced that foreign forces would no longer be allowed to...
Russian General Nikolai Solovtsov suggested today that US missile shield sites in Poland and the Czech Republic could become targets for Russian ICBMs in the future. The general said Russia "is obliged to take corresponding measures" to ensure the credibility of its...
In an interview with the Washington Times, Israeli Ambassador Sallai Meridor warned Russia that selling armaments to Syria and Iran is "destabilizing and dangerous for Israel and for peace in the region". After Syrian President Bashar Assad expressed support for...
Georgia's brief war with Russia is over, and though President Mikheil Saakashvili is eying future wars with Russia, his attention must turn now to a more immediate problem. While most Georgians rallied behind the government during the fighting, the sobering effect of...
Just a day after agreeing to a pullout from Georgian territory, Russia has presented a draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council calling for an arms embargo against the Caucasus nation. Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin conceded that the move would...
Following up on Friday's story, President Bush has accepted the Pentagon's recommendation to hold off on any further troop cuts in Iraq until after the new year. The move, announced in a speech this morning at the National Defense University, was reportedly condemned...
Besides provoking a series of anti-US protests, last month's Herat airstrike brought harsh condemnation from Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Not long after, Karzai blamed the British government for the upsurge in Taliban activity in Helmand Province. These were just...
Russian troops will leave Georgian territory and return to Abkhazia and South Ossetia by October 11, in a deal that came after hours of negotiations with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Under the terms of the agreement, the European Union would deploy 200 monitors...
Last Updated 9/8 3:05 PM EST This morning two US Predator Drones attacked a small village two miles north of Miramshah in Pakistan's North Waziristan Agency, killing at least 23 and wounding 20 others. Ten of those killed were said by officials to be militants,...
With a NATO delegation scheduled to arrive in Georgia tomorrow to examine the damage done to the Caucasus nation's military infrastructure, President Mikheil Saakashvili reiterated his vow to reclaim the breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which were...
