"The deaths of three American soldiers in a Taliban suicide attack on Wednesday lifted the veil on United States military assistance to Pakistan." S...
What do you do if a young man who was a student in your class is thrown in prison on a terrorism charge?
Why was media coverage of the trial of Aafia Siddiqui -- who a New York jury found guilty of attempting to murder US officers in Afghanistan -- not nearly as intense as the 9/11 trial?
"Jumping the shark" is a popular phrase around Hollywood. It refers to the old tv series Happy Days, when the previously cool character Arthur Fonzer...
Watching the film, I felt strangely nostalgic about what was then referred to as the "Age of Terrorism" -- the period between the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and the late 1980s.
This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Peace Prevails in Ireland A last minute peace deal is reached in Northern Ireland to peacefully devolve L...
On Tuesday, several the nation's top military officials, including Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Defense Secretary Ro...
Passing the International Violence Against Women Act could truly be a life-changing force for millions of women and girls around the world who face abuse.
Obama stressed three points of departure from the Bush Administration: wind down military involvement in Iraq, change the tone of US foreign relations, and focus on Afghanistan and Pakistan. His first year saw success in all three areas.
Where, with this addiction to war, this perverse use of resources that could house and feed our neighbors to instead destroy homes and villages abroad -- where can we find decency?
The Taliban's propaganda tactics exploit particular incidents or issues by elevating them with seemingly related information to provoke the local people to stand up for violence.
Thirty years from now, when art and technology continue to enable eastern and western youth to come together over music, sports, and pop culture in greater ways, cross-cultural harmony will be more likely.
There's a certain nuttiness to our foreign policy that is largely ignored in polite conversation. For example, why do we give billions of dollars to a man who sacrifices a black goat daily "to ward off the evil eye"?
No nation has ever dominated headlines for so many years without Americans gaining a clue about it. Pakistan's a "frenemy." It's complicated, and when it's complicated, ordinary Americans pay no attention.
Bhutto: The Film presents the story of a woman whose personality dominated the constrains of a fundamentalist society. Never has a description of the confines of the burqa been so eloquent.
While all the attention was on Obama's State of the Union address, an event of far greater relevance to the fate of his presidency played out not in Washington, but in London.
Behind the bells and whistles of President Obama's State of the Union, North Korea, the international pariah state, continued to make concrete belligerent moves in its foreign policy this week.
I looked under my bed last night, just in case. With Al Qaeda popping up in new countries daily, it seemed prudent to make sure a spanking new Salafi jihadist cell wasn't being formed under my mattress.
The top United Nations official for Afghanistan has called for direct talks with senior Taliban leaders. Is anyone in Washington listening?
The United Nations, the United States, the Afghan government, and many other countries and entities have been very busy right now paving way for a rec...
"Is anyone in Kabul hearing booms and pop-pop of gunfire? Or is it just me?" This was one of first tweets about the January 18th terrorist attacks in the heart of the capital of Afghanistan.
