Six weeks into the job, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is starting to roll out the Obama administration's approach to the most prickly foreign policy challenges from Arab-Israeli peace to Russia....

Max Boot on the situation in Afghanistan: Better Than You Think. I have just returned from Afghanistan shocked by the depth of the disconnect between reality and reporting. The coalition officers that I spoke with expressed confidence that with the U.S. reinforcements now flowing into the country, t...

HAT TIP:  Al Jazeera English An investigation into a missile strike carried out by US-led forces in Afghanistan earlier this week has found that 13 civilians were among 16 people killed, the US military has said. The military made the admission on Saturday, after originally saying that 15 oppositio...

Juan Cole with the latest updates on U.S. efforts in Pakistan: In a major blow for the US and NATO military effort in Afghanistan, the parliament of Kyrgyzstan voted Thursday formally to end US use of Manas Air Force base to resupply troops in nearby Afghanistan. With the effective closure of the Kh...

John Hutton today rejected claims that US military commanders were unhappy with the performance of the British armed forces in Afghanistan as "tittle-tattle", as he called on Nato to do more to share the burden among its members. The defence secretary acknowledged that a shortage of troops might hav...

Image by Army.mil via Flickr Asia Times Online It may seem there could be nothing in common between the blowing up of a bridge in the Khyber, the usage of an air base nestling in the foothills of the Pamirs and the launch of a 60-pound (37.2 kilogram) satellite into the night sky that will circle th...

Het water staat Nederland in meer dan één opzicht aan de lippen. Toch maakt de PVV zich boos over zaken als Pino, en eerder al om de indoctrinatie van kinderen over het vermeende smelten van het Noordpool ijs. Ondertussen heeft men bij de NATO wel iets anders aan het hoofd: vandaag en morgen komen...

John Hutton, the defence secretary, yesterday delivered an unprecedented attack on the failure of European allies to deploy more forces to Afghanistan and said British troops were fighting there in a mission "fundamental to national security". In an apparent attempt to prepare the country for furthe...

The defence secretary John Hutton laid into Britain's European allies in pretty graphic terms today – for failing to stump extra forces to match Barack Obama's troop surge for Afghanistan. Hutton told defence journalists that he was revealing "behind the scenes discussions" with Nato partners beca...

In August of this year, Jane Mayer was doing interviews to promote her book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals.   During an interview with National Journal she mentioned, as others had before, that 9/11 was the result of several missed ...