NATO spokesman James Appathurai told reporters today that the international forces were responsible for killing 97 Afghan civilians in 2008 based on what he referred to as their "new tracking system." The number is just the latest in an ongoing trend of dramatic...
The French Foreign Ministry summoned Israeli ambassador Daniel Shek today over an incident in which a convoy of French diplomats, including the nation's consul general were blocked from crossing the Gaza border for over six hours and shot at by Israeli troops. The...
US drones loomed large in the skies over North Waziristan today, flying over villages and sewing panic in a region which has seen scores of residents killed in attacks by those drones over the past few months. On Friday similar drones killed 22 people, including...
"If we set ourselves the objective of creating some sort of central Asian Valhalla over there, we will lose, because nobody in the world has that kind of time, patience and money, to be honest." While speaking to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Secretary of...
Credit for the roadside bombing which killed an Israeli soldier along the Gaza border earlier today has been claimed by the Jihad and Tawhid Brigades, an al-Qaeda linked group which has repeatedly clashed with Hamas. Still, the Israeli military says that even though...
Former Justice Department employee James Lindsay released a report today titled "Fixing UNRWA: Repairing the UN's Troubled System of Aid to Palestinian Refugees" which took the United Nations Relief and Works Agency to task for, among other things, treating the...
With an eye toward finding yet more nations in which to intervene, President Barack Obama is reportedly seeking a "fresh approach" to the goal of driving Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe from office. The fresh approach seems anything but: aides say the strategy will...
The Israeli military had its first post-ceasefire casualty today, when a roadside bomb near the Kissufim border crossing killed one soldier and wounded three others. So far none of the assorted groups that fought Israel during the invasion of the Gaza Strip has...
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani declares the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP)'s sharia-based court system in the Swat Valley "not acceptable," but indications are that there is little the Pakistani government is able to do about the TTP's growing influence...
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni lauded the war in the Gaza Strip today during a meeting with US ambassador James Cunningham, saying it "created a strategic change in the status of Hamas" and "can serve as a stimulus for the new [Obama] Administration and the...
