Afghan President Hamid Karzai, while very supportive of a change in US strategy which would involve increased strikes on militants in Pakistan, a strategy he says he has pushed for years, said today that he opposes a long-term presence of foreign troops within...
Yesterday, Admiral Mullen announce his new "comprehensive strategy" for the war in Afghanistan, the centerpiece of which is ratcheting up attacks in neighboring Pakistan. The American intelligence community has warned the administration against such attacks, saying...
The European Union has issued an official statement, and in it they have declared that they recognize Ukraine as "a European country". While this comes as hardly a surprise to anyone with access to a globe, the relevant message of this statement was clear: that...
Russian troops will leave Georgian territory and return to Abkhazia and South Ossetia by October 11, in a deal that came after hours of negotiations with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Under the terms of the agreement, the European Union would deploy 200 monitors...
With a NATO delegation scheduled to arrive in Georgia tomorrow to examine the damage done to the Caucasus nation's military infrastructure, President Mikheil Saakashvili reiterated his vow to reclaim the breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which were...
Updated 9/6/08 at 9:00 PM EST In a move seen by some as the latest fallout from Wednesday morning's US attack on South Waziristan, the Pakistani government has ordered that supply lines to NATO troops in Afghanistan be immediately severed for an indefinite period of...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai visited the scene of last month's deadly US air strike in Herat Province today. During the visit President Karzai vowed "swift punishment" for those responsible for the incident, and warned that relations with NATO had been strained by...
Georgia's military lies in ruins, and a little over a week after Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili vowed to rebuild the military and reclaim control of the breakaway enclaves of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, NATO has announced that it is going ahead with...
Last Updated 9/3 7:35 PM EST Early this morning NATO helicopters landed in a tiny village in South Waziristan, just a mile from the Afghan border. The forces killed 20 people including three women and four children, according to local residents, and wounded an...
Not long after NATO announced a joint probe into a US air strike in Herat which a UN report said killed 90 civilians, including 60 children, already tense relations with the Afghan government and populace stand to take another hit amid news that NATO forces have...
