Iraqi parliament agrees to allow foreign forces to remain in the country until July.
Iraq Parliamentary Dispute Delays Non-US Foreign Troops Vote
How throwing a shoe may lead to British forces being confined to their bases.
Iraq Parliament Vote Would Allow British Troops to Stay Until July
Britain's legal basis for remaining in Iraq for more than another 10 days is tenuous, at best. A previous draft proposal backed by the Iraqi cabinet sought to order the troops to wrap things up by the end of May and leave by the end of July. But in a tumultuous week...
NATO Commander: Allies’ Commitments to Afghanistan Not Enough”
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...
Iraq Wants All Non-US Troops Out by July
Coalition of the Willing Down to One by Summer
Brown Says 75 Percent of Current Terror Plots Have Pakistan Ties
Finishing up his two-day tour of the region, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown demanded "actions and not words" from the Pakistani government in dealing with the problem of terrorists operating out of the country. Taking a more accusatory tone than some Indian...
British Forces to Start Leaving Iraq in March
Britain, the only other nation besides the United States with a significant number of troops on the ground in Iraq, intends to begin pulling its remaining 4,100 forces from the nation in March, with a goal of having no more than 400 remaining by next summer. Britain...
Britain Eyes “Afghan Awakening” With Helmand Bribes
As the war in Afghanistan continues to go poorly, Afghan President Hamid Karzai is hoping to negotiate a political sentiment with the Taliban insurgency. But the international forces seem intent on shoe-horning the strategy they are convinced "succeeded" in Iraq onto...
UK Denies Involvement in Latest US Drone Strike
Yesterday's drone strike in North Waziristan Agency, Pakistan, was perhaps most noteworthy among the dozens of US strikes in Pakistan's border regions in that it killed a dual citizen of Pakistan and Britain, Rashid Rauf, a terror suspect who officials have sought to...
British Military Commanders Criticize Afghan Drug War
The Independent is reporting tonight that British military commanders are privately condemning plans to use Helmand Province, the embattled province in which the bulk of the British military force operates, into a launching pad for a broad NATO war against drug...