Last Updated 8/28 12:35 PM EST Around 150 militants were reported killed in a surge of violence on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border. On the Afghan side of the border, 40 Taliban were reported killed in airstrikes after attacking government-run checkpoints in...
The United States' early proposal would have kept troops within Iraq to 2015, says Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, while the Iraqi government had originally sought a date of 2010. The date is reportedly fixed at 2011, though President Talabani says that the Iraqi...
Last Updated 8/26 8:40 PM EST Earlier this month when presumptive Republican Presidential Nominee John McCain declared "we are all Georgians," it is unclear if he was referring to the people of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Yet today the Bush Administration made it...
Following an investigation by their Assistance Mission for Afghanistan, the United Nations has announced that it is convinced that a minimum of 90 civilians were killed in Friday's US airstrike in Herat Province. This number, they reported, included 60 children, and...
Pakistani Muslim League-N Leader Nawaz Sharif announced today that his party would leave Pakistan's coalition government to join the opposition bench, after new President Asif Ali Zardari's Pakistani Peoples Party reneged on its previous promise to restore some 60...
In a move many see as retaliation for the February recognition of independence for Kosovo, both houses of Russia's parliament voted unanimously to recognize the independence of the separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Though not legally binding, the vote...
As the fallout from the Herat bombing continues, Afghan President Hamid Karzai issued a Presidential decree today ordering the immediate firing of two Army officials, including the top ranking officer in western Afghanistan, General Jalandar Shah Behnam, for...
Angry tribesmen took to the streets of the city of Khar after Pakistani forces shelled the town, killing between five and nine civilians and wounding several others when one of the shells destroyed their home. This is the latest in a series of attacks during...
Last Updated 8/24 6:00 PM EST Following up on a previous story, hundreds of angry residents took to the streets of Azizabad, the small village in Herat province that was the site of what appears to be the largest incident of US-inflicted civilian casualties since the...
Thousands of angry Georgians took the streets of the small but strategically important port city of Poti to protest the continued presence of a Russian checkpoint and patrols on the city's outskirts. Just south of Abkhazia along the coast, the city of Poti had been a...
