White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and the international community seemed to breathe a huge sigh of relief on Tuesday after Hamid Karzai agreed to participate in a November 7th run-off election for the Presidency of Afghanistan.

For months, United Nation election monitors, diplomats and the Independent Election...

Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova recently noted at a news conference that the current outbreak of H1N1, commonly referred to as swine flu, appears to be tapering off. Mr. Cordova indicated that infected individuals are currently passing the virus along to approximately 1.4 to 1.8 people, lending credence...

American proposals to root out terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan (AfPak) have largely been shielded from criticism as everyone from policy makers to pundits has regarded it as a war of necessity. Unlike the pinnacle of the Iraq war, where polls opined that mobilizing resources was a never-ending drain on...

As American strategies for Afghanistan and Pakistan (AfPak) come to fruition, a premium must be placed on articulating what a stable civil society will look like for each state. This may sound like an obvious step in any plan to stomp out terrorist safe havens abroad, but two tactics that...

Two major policy announcements from the White House in the last several weeks -- one committing to a draw down of troops in Iraq by 2011 and one committing 17,000 of our bravest to Afghanistan -- coalesce as pivotal decisions in redirecting US Foreign Policy in the Afghani and Pakistani...