The relative quiet which Iraq has enjoyed in the past few months came to a screeching halt today when a pair of back-to-back car bombings at a bus station in southern Baghdad caused scores of casualties. The attacks came as two parked cars loaded with explosives were...
While both the Likud Party and the Kadima Party have been holding rather premature victory celebrations, the battle lines are being drawn for what could be a protracted battle to secure the endorsement of the third largest party, Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu,...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared at today's Tehran rally marking the 30th anniversary of the Iranian revolution that the Iranian government is "ready" to talk to the United States "in a fair atmosphere with mutual respect." The United States and Iran...
With 100% of the ballots counted, the ruling Kadima Party has retained the largest number of seats in Israel's Knesset, with 28. Likud came in a close second with 27 (despite leading in virtually every poll in the past few weeks), and Yisrael Beiteinu finished third...
Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu party didn't do nearly as well in the election as previous polls suggested he would, but with a narrow margin between the top parties they may yet hold the key to forming a coalition government. He's got a condition for any...
Since his election in November, President Obama's promised escalation of the war in Afghanistan has been presumed to be one of the first things his administration would do. Yet the president has ordered reviews of the strategy to be completed before moving ahead with...
The South Ossetian capital city of Tskhinvali, still recovering from the heavy shelling in last year's Georgian invasion, was hit again yesterday by two shells fired from the Georgian village of Nikozi, according to the South Ossetian government. Though there were no...
With the election in the books and the ballots being counted, it is no clearer now than 24 hours ago who will be forming the next Israeli government. Exit polls suggest Kadima will complete an amazing comeback by passing Likud in number of seats, but they also suggest...
Israel's elections are over, and the counting of ballots has begun. The early exit polls show a very narrow gap between the Likud Party and the Kadima Party, with Kadima surprisingly taking a narrow lead in each of the results. Channel 1 and Channel 10 both give...
Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu says he "will approach all the Zionist parties to join a coalition headed by Likud," but has indicated that Avigdor Lieberman, head of the surging Yisrael Beiteinu party, will not be the defense minister in his prospective coalition...
