Behind schedule and over-budget, the Bush Administration's missile defense shield in Eastern Europe was a source of tension with Russia and a multi-billion dollar black hole. It is unsurprising, then, that President Obama was so non-committal about following through...
Australian forces launched a pre-dawn raid on a village in Oruzgan Province, sparking a gunbattle that left five children dead and several others wounded. The Australian military defended the killings, saying they were "in accordance with the rules of engagement," but...
A female suicide bomber attacked a tent in Iskandiriyah, just south of Baghdad today, killing at least 40 and wounding scores of others. The tent was set up to offer food and drink to women and children who were making a pilgrimage to Karbala. Iraqi officials say that...
Pakistan acknowledged today that the November Mumbai attacks were partly plotted on their soil, and said that they had begun criminal proceedings against eight suspected of involvement. Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the move would assure the international...
US envoy Richard Holbrooke arrived in Kabul today to help President Obama decide how to proceed with his promised escalation of the war in Afghanistan. His visit was not exactly a cheerful time, coming as Kabul recovered from multiple Taliban attacks which killed at...
The Hamas government has announced that the agreement for an 18-month truce agreement in the Gaza Strip has been agreed to, and will be announced by the Egyptian government within the next two or three days. Taher al-Nono, a member of their Cairo delegation, says the...
The next Israeli government could take awhile. The final results of the election will be certified on February 18, and Israeli President Shimon Peres will then have 10 additional days to charge either Tzipi Livni or Benjamin Netanyahu with attempting to form a...
With the growing animosity between Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu party and the religious right making their coexistence in a right-far right coalition increasingly unlikely, the Likud Party is trying once again to court Kadima for a potential center-right...
The 15 seats of Yisrael Beiteinu would be extremely valuable to either Kadima or Likud in forming a coalition government. The Shas Party is hoping an alliance with United Torah Judaism, which would offer a combined 16 seats, will be even more valuable. Both Shas and...
It has been 15 months since the release of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran which determined that the Iranian government had halted all efforts to create a nuclear weapon, and the outgoing chairman of the National Intelligence Council reaffirmed those...
