With the latest poll from Israel's Channel 2 showing a 12 seat gap between the Likud and Kadima Parties, the perception is that Netanyahu's pro-war rhetoric and the taint of Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's perceived involvement in the peace process with the Palestinian...
Yesterday it was reported that the Obama Administration was looking at sending a reply letter to the Iranian government which would signal a willingness to improve ties and perhaps hold direct talks between the two. The move would have been the most significant move...
Yesterday we reported on the "guidance" of NATO's Supreme Allied Commander for Europe General John Craddock, which ordered NATO soldiers in Afghanistan to kill anyone involved in the drug industry, even if there was no evidence they were insurgents. The story has...
The Afghan Election Commission has decided to delay the upcoming presidential elections until at least August 20, effectively giving President Hamid Karzai another several months in office and threatening to throw the war-torn country into a constitutional crisis....
The Iraqi government has informed the US embassy today that it will decline to renew Blackwater Worldwide's license to operate in the nation. This will require the security contractors, still being used by the State Department, to leave the nation once the joint...
ts been nearly three months now since Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad offered a congratulatory letter to then-President-elect Barack Obama. The move was seen as one of the most significant overtures toward better relations between the two countries in years,...
The Israeli military attacked what it described as a "weapons manufacturing facility" in Rafah today, and continued to strike tunnels along the Gaza-Egypt border, in what it said was retaliation for an apparent Qassam launch by militants in the Gaza Strip. The Qassam...
In a significant effort to repair the strained relationship between them and the United States, the Russian government has announced that it will abandon its threatened deployment of Iskander missiles to the exclave of Kaliningrad. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir...
The German magazine Der Spiegel has obtained classified documents in which NATO top commander and US General John Craddock, a long time advocate of steering the international forces in Afghanistan toward fighting the drug export industry, issues a "guidance" advising...
The Pakistani military continued to shell the Swat Valley today, and reported that only seven militants were among the at least 18 people killed. 11 militants and an unknown number of civilians were also wounded the attacks. The military has been escalating its...
