Two weeks after Afghan President Hamid Karzai demanded the withdrawal of all U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) from Wardak province by this date, the issue remains suspended in negotiations between … Read This Post
“Going to Tehran” arguably represents the most important work on the subject of U.S.-Iran relations to be published thus far.
Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett tackle not only U.S. policy … Read This Post
WASHINGTON, Feb 18 2013 (IPS) – When European Union foreign ministers discuss a proposal to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation, Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov will present his government’s … Read This Post
The suspect graph of a nuclear explosion reportedly provided to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as evidence of Iranian computer modeling of nuclear weapons yields appears to have been … Read This Post
News stories on the latest International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
report suggested new reasons to fear that Iran is closer to a “breakout”
capability than ever before, citing a nearly 50% increase … Read This Post
Paula Broadwell, whose affair with Gen. David Petraeus brought his career to a sudden end last week, had sought to help defend his decision in 2010 to allow village destruction … Read This Post
A new twist was added to the long-running media theme of a threat by
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to go to war with Iran when
news stories seemed to suggest Monday … Read This Post
In 1998, the Defense Department vetoed a delegation of prominent U.S.
nuclear specialists to go to Iran to investigate its nuclear program at
the invitation of the government of newly-elected Iranian President
Mohammad … Read This Post
Although the place and time of the next round of talks on Iran’s
nuclear program have not yet been announced, the maneuvering by Iran and
the United States to influence the outcome … Read This Post
Although the surge of “insider attacks” on U.S.-NATO forces has
dominated coverage of the war in Afghanistan in 2012, an even more
important story has been quietly unfolding: the U.S. loss of … Read This Post