In comments today Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani has said Western allies have been informed the nation will commit the approximately 100,000 troops deployed in the border region near Afghanistan to the Indian border. As tension rise the Prime Minister...
Iraq's most influential religious leader Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has expressed serious concerns about the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the United States which narrowly passed in Iraq's Parliament on Thursday. Sistani says he believes the United States has...
More than 300 militants attacked an Afghan military convoy in Badghis Province late Thursday, sparking a battle which killed 13 Afghan security forces and injuring 11 others. The militants eventually withdrew, but took with them 16 captured soldiers and most of the 47...
Thursday's narrow victory for the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) in Iraq's Parliament has put Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in a position of increased power. The Prime Minister has used the US military presence to enhance his own power, and has used President...
With the expiration of the United Nations mandate at the end of December, 13 of the 19 nations that still have military commitments to Iraq are set to bring them to an end by the end of the year. A farewell ceremony for Bosnia's 86 soldiers is scheduled for Saturday,...
Most of the city of Mumbai is now in a state of relative quiet, though reeling from attacks which started Wednesday evening. The Oberoi hotel has been retaken, some hostages were freed but at least 24 died. An attempt to retake a Jewish center earlier today likewise...
Updated 11/28 1:15 PM EST Terrorist attacks across the Indian city of Mumbai continue into their third day, with 160 people now confirmed dead, at least several hundred wounded, and Indian commandos still struggling to free hostages in multiple locations across the...
Diplomats have focused on Syria's unwillingness to grant additional visits as stalling an International Atomic Energy Agency investigation into a bombed site which the US claims was a nearly-finished nuclear reactor, but IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei finds the more...
There is no shortage of US officials making broad statements accusing the Iranian government of attempting to develop a nuclear weapon, but after last week's International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iran yielded no interesting allegations to latch onto, US...
Lest we think that all the allegations flying across the India-Pakistan border in the past few days are headed in one direction, Pakistan's Daily Times is reporting tonight on evidence which according to unnamed sources was gathered by Pakistani intelligence agencies,...
