The Pathetic Afghan Army & Will Obama Fumble Iraq? Today Iraq is succeeding, but as Generals Petraeus or Odierno might say, the situation remains fragile and reversible. Whereas the Bush-war ended in a new if messy democracy, this year we could see an Obama-war begin; the new President has sent ...

Once again, we’re being subjected to the near-impossible task of trying to figure out what to believe about Iran’s nuclear weapons programs: Iran has not produced the highly enriched uranium necessary for a nuclear weapon and has not decided to do so, U.S. intelligence officials told Con...

Gareth Porter | Hong Kong | March 11 Asia Times - After Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad in October 2005 called for an end to the state of Israel (as a geographical entity), Israeli leaders began stepping up talk of an "existential threat" to the country. Likud Party leader Binyamin Netanyahu, w...

Instapundit » Blog Archive » MICHAEL YON: Victory in Iraq: Next Stop, Afghanistan…. MICHAEL YON: Victory in Iraq: Next Stop, Afghanistan. I guess it all boils down to what you mean by victory. If you mean an Iraq under the control of a Shia majority, and controlled by a military whose core, the ...

Die iranische Fußballnationalmannschaft der Frauen kommt nach Deutschland. Sie möchte ein Freundschaftsspiel gegen die deutsche Mannschaft austragen. Angeblich ist der DFB an diesem Spiel interessiert. Die Trainerin der iranischen Mannschaft schränkt allerdings ein, dass ihre Mannschaft gegen ein...

Which is a bummer because I was this close to buying the whole Hope and Change thing: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged world Muslims on Wednesday to join the Palestinian "resistance" against Israel, but his call was dismissed by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas. "The only way to ...

As the U.S. economy sank ever lower, a huge brouhaha erupted this week over claims that Iran might have nuclear weapons. The new CIA director, Leon Panetta, said "there is no question, they (Iran) are seeking that capability." The Pentagon chief, Admiral Mike Mullen, claimed Iran had "enough fissile...

Israeli media is marking today by taking a hard look at the challenges that Israel women still face on the path to full equality: Statistical reports published to coincide with International Women's Day Sunday reveal that in some aspects, the situation of women in the country has worsened. Weeks aft...

Iran: Wants to wipe Israel off the map. Hamas: Genocide of the Jews is in its charter. Sudan: Actually committing genocide, right now! Solidarity mission of Iran and Hamas to Sudan: Utterly unsurprising....

Remember that I seemingly caught out the State Department for not knowing Polish? (here) Well, they don't know Russian either:- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, in greeting Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, presented him with a red plastic button emblazoned with the English w...