Good news: the U.S. military has found a new way to get supplies to Afghanistan, after being kicked out of a crucial base in Central Asia. Bad news: that new route means shipping goods, by rail, through Russia. Earlier this week, the U.S. military opened a new supply route to Afghanistan, sending a ...

During the campaign, Barack Obama made it clear that he wasn't particularly gung-ho about putting ballistic missile interceptors in Eastern Europe. So it's not exactly surprising that he proposed a deal with Russia, to rethink missile defense in Eastern Europe in exchange for Russian support in keep...

Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, raised the alarm yesterday over Iran's nuclear activities. In an interview with CNN, he said Iran "might now have enough fissile material to make a bomb." And a nuclear-armed Iran, he added, "is a very, very bad outcome for t...

Ongoing Israeli air attacks on Hamas security forces in the Gaza Strip, begun Saturday in response to rocket attacks on southern Israel, reflect "a deep reluctance to mount large-scale ground operations in the narrow coastal strip, home to 1.5 million Palestinians," according to The Guardi...

The Somali pirate showdown gets more bonkers by the day. Now Iran is talking about sending ships to hunt down the hijackers. And Germany is mulling a major troop escalation -- putting its soldiers on the threatened vessels, trying to navigate around the Horn of Africa. "The Islamic Republic of ...

The last three months have seen a huge spike in pirate attacks off the Somali coast. This week alone, pirates wielding AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades seized four ships, including a tanker carrying $100 million in crude oil, bringing to around 90 the number of ships attacked this year. It gets ...

OK, so he's mixing up his long- and medium-range Iranian arsenals. Whatever. Jon Stewart is spinning comedy gold with this take on the photoshopped missile flap. (Good aim: SLS) ALSO: Attack of the Photoshopped Missiles Iran Missile Photo Faked Video: Iran's Mega Missile Test How US Tech Makes its W...

"Why is so much sensitive US military technology winding up in Iran?" Laura Rozen asks. And why does the number of illicit exports seem to be going up? A number of reasons, really -- many of them systemic, and hard to solve. The US is the biggest arms-dealer in the world; soaring oil price...

The Christian Science Monitor surveys the usual experts, and declares that a U.S. attack on Iran is "not coming soon." So does that mean the Israelis might bomb Iran's nuclear facilities on their own? They might be able to pull off a preventive strike. But Robert Kaplan, writing for the At...

In the fall, International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei said the world had a "few years" of breathing room, before it had to deal with a nuclear-armed Iran. Now, he's whittled that timeline down to as little as six months. But the clock, he says in a recent interview with A...