Foreign Affairs

Jundallah, Sunni Rebel Group, Claims Responsibility For Revolutionary Guard Attack In Iran

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI and BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 10.19.2009 | World


TEHRAN, Iran — Iran vowed retaliation Monday after accusing Pakistan, the U.S. and Britain of aiding Sunni militants who stunned the Islamic reg...

Pakistan Steps Up Offensive In South Waziristan As Petraeus, Kerry Meet Leaders

AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD and NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 10.20.2009 | World


DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistan's army, in the midst of a major new offensive against Taliban militants, has struck deals to keep two powe...

Charles Wesley Mumbere, Nurse's Aide In U.S., To Be Crowned African King

AP | Posted 10.16.2009 | World


HARRISBURG, Pa. — An African man who worked for years as a nurse's aide in the United States, caring for the elderly and sick, is back in his ho...

Goldstone Attacks UN Resolution On His Gaza War Report

Posted 10.16.2009 | World


Richard Goldstone, the South African who headed a United Nations investigation into the Gaza war, slammed the UN Human Rights Council's endorsement of...

China, Iran Forge Ties Over Oil (VIDEO)

Al Jazeera | Posted 10.16.2009 | World


Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, has made it clear he does not agree with Western demands for sanctions over Tehran's disputed nuclear programme, in...

Peshawar Police Station Hit By Double Blasts, 11 Killed

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 10.16.2009 | Home


At least 11 people have died in two explosions near a police office in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, police said. The bombs were detonated at an in...

UN Row Over Goldstone Report Threatens To Sink Middle East Peace Plan

Times Online | Catherine Philp, Philip Webster and James Hider | Posted 10.16.2009 | World


The Middle East peace process was on the brink of collapse last night as Britain and other European countries failed to back Israel in a key vote at t...

Champs-Elysees: French Farmers Torch Hay In Protest (PHOTOS)

AP | RACHEL KUROWSKI | Posted 10.17.2009 | World


PARIS "AP"; French farmers struggling with slumping grain prices blanketed the Champs-Elysees with bales of hay and set them ablaze Friday, and blocke...

Afghanistan: 4 US Troops Killed As UN Completes Election Probe

AP | ROBERT H. REID and HEIDI VOGT | Posted 10.17.2009 | World


KABUL — A roadside bomb killed four American troops in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. said Friday, as a U.N.-backed panel finished most of its i...

UN Endorses Goldstone Gaza Report Accusing Israel Of War Crimes

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.16.2009 | Home


The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday endorsed a report that accused both Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas of committing wa...

The Nobel Prize With an Asterisk

Michael Winship | Posted 10.15.2009 | World


Michael Winship

Better to call this prize, as many have, including the Nobel committee, an aspirational award -- the committee expressing its own audacity of hope.

Libya Releases 88 Militants After Rehab Program

AP | KHALED AL-DEEB | Posted 10.15.2009 | World


TRIPOLI, Libya — The Libyan government released 88 repentant Islamic militants, some of them belonging to a group with suspected links to al-Qai...

Kim Jong Il, The Man With The Golden Nukes

Foreign Policy Roundtable | Posted 10.14.2009 | World


Foreign Policy Roundtable

This is no evil genius from a James Bond movie. Kim just may be an evil genius, period. The Kim family's rule has lasted so long because son, like father, is calculating and pragmatic.

Roy Bennett, Zimbabwe Opposition Figure, Sent To Prison And Indicted On Terrorism Charges

Posted 10.14.2009 | World


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U.S. Pakistan Aid Bill Threatens To Undermine President Zardari

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In India, More Women Demand Toilets Before Marriage

washingtonpost.com | Emily Wax | Posted 10.13.2009 | World


NILOKHERI, India -- An ideal groom in this dusty farming village is a vegetarian, does not drink, has good prospects for a stable job and promises his...

Russia Resists Hillary Clinton's Pressure, Says Threats Of Iran Sanctions Won't Work

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 10.13.2009 | World


MOSCOW — Russia publicly pushed back Tuesday against U.S. efforts to threaten tough new sanctions if Iran fails to prove its nuclear program is ...

Palestinian Memo: Hopes In Obama "Evaporated" After "Zionist Lobby" Pressure

AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 10.13.2009 | World


JERUSALEM — The Palestinian president's political party says all hopes in the Obama administration have "evaporated," accusing the White House o...

Bill Clinton: India Can Outgrow China (VIDEO)

Tomek Gross | Posted 10.12.2009 | World


Tomek Gross

Former President Bill Clinton spoke in Chicago this past Saturday at the India Institute of Technology's Global Conference 2009. The focus of his spe...

North Korea Fires 5 Short-Range Missiles: Report

AP | KWANG-TAE KIM | Posted 10.12.2009 | World


SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea reportedly test-launched five short-range missiles – and may fire more – in what analysts said is a...

Sudan To Hang 4 Islamists Over Killing Of U.S. Envoy, John Granville

BBC NEWS | Posted 10.12.2009 | World


A Sudanese court has upheld a death sentence against four Islamists who shot dead a US envoy on 1 January 2008....

Why Obama Deserves His Nobel

Rob Asghar | Posted 10.13.2009 | World


Rob Asghar

What truly deserving champion of peace did the Nobel committee slight this year in the process? None to my knowledge.

Fighting a War by Objective

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 10.09.2009 | World


Alon Ben-Meir

Does the United States want to rid Afghanistan of the Taliban, or does it want to eliminate Al-Qaeda as a terrorist organization and find some modus operendi with the Taliban?

Obama Delays McChrystal's Washington Trip To Discuss Troop Levels

washingtonpost.com | Karen DeYoung and Greg Jaffe | Posted 10.09.2009 | World


The White House has told the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan to delay a planned trip here Friday to brief President Obama and his senior ad...

Iran To "Blow Up The Heart Of Israel" If Attacked, Says Top Official

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.09.2009 | World


TEHRAN, Iran — Iran will "blow up the heart of Israel" if the United States or the Jewish state attacked it first, a top official with Iran's mo...