A US drone fired missiles at what was described by local officials as "the houses of a suspected Taliban militant" near Mir Ali, in North Waziristan Agency, killing six people and injuring an unknown number of others. A local intelligence official said Taliban...
President Bush once again lashed out at Iran today, declaring their civilian uranium enrichment program a "major threat to peace" and vowing that "for the safety of our people and the peace of the world, America will not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon." It...
The United States has reportedly submitted a list of four former high-ranking officials in Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Agency to the United Nations to be added to the UN Security Council's list of international terrorists. The move comes after claims...
As the final month of the UN Mandate for Iraq begins, more and more nations are pulling their forces from the nation. The latest is Tonga, whose 55 soldiers are preparing to depart this week. When the month is over, the once 35-nation strong war effort will be down to...
After failing to get the Pakistani government to hand over 20 people in connection with last week's Mumbai attacks, the Indian government has tried a more targeted request of only three major suspects they believe to be involved in the attacks. The three are Tiger...
It seems unlikely that President-elect Barack Obama as a long-time advocate of strikes into Pakistan's tribal areas would consider reversing the Bush Administration's relatively recent policy of unilateral air strikes. Yet the Pakistani government is hoping to...
Last week the United States was reported to have warned Israel against launching any attacks against Iran until after President-elect Barack Obama takes office in January. The report came hot on the heels of the Israeli military's annual security assessment, which...
The Pakistani military has engaged in a long, bitter conflict with the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), but has made it clear since last week's Mumbai attacks that in the event of war with India those troops would be shifted from the tribal areas to the eastern...
NATO foreign ministers today praised America's planned missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic as making a "substantial contribution" to protecting Europe from long-range ballistic missiles. The United States insists that the shield is primarily...
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has ruled out handing over the 20 people the Indian government has demanded in the wake of last week's Mumbai attacks. Rather, Zardari says that if his government is given proof of the men's involvement in the plot, they would be...
