Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has ordered the Pentagon to draw up plans for closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, anticipating that President-elect Barack Obama may wish to address the closure, one of his campaign promises, soon after taking office....
International mediators report that Russia and Georgia have agreed to work out their differences on the status of the region along the border between Georgia and the newly independent enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Still, the sides failed to finalize a text...
As President-elect Barack Obama prepares to chart a much more escalatory tone to America's war in Afghanistan, NATO Supreme Commander General John Craddock warned that unless European allies like Britain send much larger forces of their own to the war-torn nation, the...
Maliki’s office claims Zeidi is sorry, insists Maliki isn’t plotting revenge.
As high profile incidents of US and NATO forces killing Afghan civilians continue to rise, a furious Afghan President Hamid Karzai has submitted a list of demands to the United States meant to reduce unilateral actions by the international forces against Afghan...
Iraq's Trade Ministry issued a statement condemned a pre-dawn raid by US forces on a flour mill belong to the Iraqi Grain Board, and demanding an apology. During the raid, the ministry says US forces killed at least three of the mill's security guards in their sleep,...
analysis of the end of the Gaza ceasefire
Updated 12/18 11:30 AM EST 35 high ranking members of Iraq's Interior Ministry have been arrested over the past three days, including Director of Internal Affairs General Ahmed Abu Raqeef and three others generals. The arrests were coordinated through Prime Minister...
Ehud Barak guesses Iran might somehow, if they got a nuke, stick it on a ship and sneak it into some east coast port city.
US Presses for UN invasion of Somalia, but gets cold response.
