A pair of missile strikes from American drones into Pakistan's North and South Waziristan Agencies have killed at least 20 people, and injured an unknown number of others. This marks the first cross-border attack by US forces since President Obama took office on...
Promising that "a new era of American leadership is at hand," President Barack Obama has promised that the United States "will not torture" detainees. A series of presidential orders will outlaw rendition flights, order the closings of the CIA's "black sites," and...
As recently as yesterday, Obama aides were treating the president's campaign promise for a 16-month timetable to withdraw from Iraq as a working plan. It didn't take long for what many voters assumed was a firm commitment to become, in the parlance of the previous...
Updated 1/22/09 12:00 PM EST A newly drafted executive order signed by President Barack Obama will fulfill a campaign promise to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. The order will require the facility to close within a year. The facility where detainees were...
President Barack Obama met with top military commanders today to get a full update on the situation in Iraq and to ask them to begin drawing up an Iraq exit strategy. "I asked the military leadership to engage in additional planning necessary to execute a responsible...
President Obama will reportedly sign a new executive order calling for the detention center at Guantanamo Bay to be closed within a year, and will also halt the war crimes trials in the meantime. It remains unclear when he will sign the draft, however. The draft says...
Addressing an enormous crowd at his inauguration, President Barack Obama spoke on a number of issues and told Muslims that "we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect," a nod to international hopes that the United States will embark on a...
As the situation in Afghanistan continues to deteriorate, many are holding out hope that President-elect Barack Obama's long promised surge will somehow magically turn the floundering seven year long war around. But both at home and abroad the Obama plan is meeting...
Attempting to capitalize on the international outrage, particularly in the Muslim world, over the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, Osama bin Laden's newest audio tape calls for all Muslims to launch a jihad against Israel. His speech also targeted the leaders of most of...
Responding to last night's report from The Guardian, Barack Obama's chief national security spokeswoman Brooke Anderson has denied that the Obama Administration would ever participate in secret low level talks with the Hamas government. "The President-elect has...
