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...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for NATO to make "a fresh start" with Russia, saying the alliance "must find ways to work constructively with Russia where we share areas of common interest, including helping the people of Afghanistan." Secretary Clinton says...
Bloomberg is reporting today that the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has been raising its flags and deploying its military in areas outside of their official borders. One Kurdish military officer explained that “Saddam kicked out Kurds, Arabs came in. Kurds are...
In an event today at the White House, President Barack Obama called for a crackdown on wasteful defense spending and said there must be more competition in the contracting process. Obama declared the "days of giving defense contractors a blank check are over." The...
Just one day after the Obama Administration declared an end to America's four-year long diplomatic embargo of the Syrian government, US Ambassador to the IAEA Gregory Schulte claimed there was "growing evidence of clandestine nuclear activities in Syria." The...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lashed out at the Iranian government today, declaring them a threat to the Middle East, Europe and Russia. Clinton also claimed that "it is clear that Iran intends to interfere with the internal affairs of all of these people."...
A report issued today by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) warned that the Israeli government believes that it still retains the ability to destroy Iran's nuclear program with a unilateral attack, and as the international community's diplomatic...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai's decision earlier this month to overturn the ruling of the Election Commission to delay the election to August 20 has itself been overturned, and the commission has once again set the date for August 20. Holding the election in August...
