The planned reduction of U.S. troops in South Korea is an opportunity for Washington-Seoul ties to mature or decline, depending on whether ties can go beyond the narrow security issues that have driven the relationship for decades. This transition, experts say, is the...
The flight from Jordan feels all too normal … until we arrive over Baghdad International Airport. The nose of the plane dips, the left wing drops, and the downward spiral begins – dropping us 4,000 feet per minute into the inferno that is occupied Iraq....
UN agencies and humanitarian groups are warning that the security situation in the conflict-ridden Darfur region of Sudan is deteriorating amid reports that government forces may be forcing displaced people (DP) to return to their homes. The new alarm was triggered by...
The International Atomic Energy Agency – under Director General Mohamed ElBaradei – has been the bane of the neo-crazies, having given the lie to neo-crazy charges that Iraq had nukes. To obviate a similar embarrassment over Iran, the neo-crazies charge...
On Nov. 2, Americans blew their only chance to redeem themselves in the eyes of the world. The entire world is stunned by the Bush administration's abandonment of a half century of U.S. diplomacy in favor of misguided, unilateralist, "preemptive" naked...
Memo To: David Broder, Washington Post Re: Those Mass Graves Remember, David, back on Sept. 27, I posted a memo on the margin that I wrote to you, complimenting you on your column about how the news media had been "losing their way"? It had to do with your...
No longer will Dick Cheney have to pay visits to Langley, Virginia and lean on CIA analysts to produce the kind of intelligence a Veep might need; not now that the President has his man, Republican loyalist Porter J. Goss, heading up the Agency, and a second term in...
JERUSALEM - Most reactions in the Middle East to the reelection of U.S. President George W. Bush have ranged from the caustic to the cautious. Rejoicing has been rare. Only Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Iraq's U.S. appointed interim prime minister Iyad...
TOKYO - Japan's role in the U.S.-led war on terror is expected to grow in the wake of the reelection of U.S. President George W Bush, analysts here say. "The pressure on Japan to get more involved in the American-led war on terrorism is obvious with the...
Crucial evidence of alleged human rights abuses that could be used in upcoming trials of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his top aides has apparently been lost or damaged due to U.S. neglect, says a report released Thursday. While charges continue to fly...
