In his first State of the Nation speech, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced his nation's plan to counter America's missile defense system being built in Poland and the Czech Republic. Iskander missiles will be deployed to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad,...
Touting the decline in violence in Iraq, the United States has announced it will be cutting the level of troops in the nation this month by one combat brigade, or roughly 3,500 soldiers. They had initially planned to rotate one brigade out this month, but now they...
Sources in the Israeli military say the next 24 hours will be crucial to determining the future of the ceasefire between the Israeli government and the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, after an exchange of strikes between the two sides left the five-month long ceasefire in...
President-elect Barack Obama will be the first United States President inaugurated during wartime since Richard Nixon won the 1968 presidential election in the midst of the Vietnam War. And while the Pentagon says that they are prepared to make the transition as...
Updated 11/5 10:00 PM EST US Ambassador Ryan Crocker said today that the United States' general policy towards Iraq will not change after the election of Democratic Party nominee Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States. This seems to also be the...
Afghan officials and local residents say that a US air strike struck an Afghan wedding party on Monday, killing at least 40 civilians and wounding 28 others (including the bride). The strike occurred in the Shah Wali Kot district of Kandahar Province. Reporters on the...
President-elect Barack Obama's 300 member foreign policy team already moved from campaign to transition mode weeks ago, and now the challenge begins in earnest to prepare his administration for the various wars and other foreign policy challenges it will face after...
Though Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said she believes that President-elect Barack Obama will maintain America's "close strategic cooperation" with Israel and continue the "unshakable special relationship," many Israelis are reportedly uncertain of what the...
After what wound up being a relatively early-call for the major networks and a landslide electoral victory, Senator Barack Obama is set to become the 44th President of the United States. But as much of America celebrates and the new President-elect eyes his new role...
As of 11 PM EST tonight, Democratic Party Presidential nominee Barack Hussein Obama has been declared by all major networks to be the victor of the 2008 campaign, and the junior Senator from Illinois will be inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of...
