Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations is again warning of imminent famine in northern Gaza. A panel of the Integrated Food Security Phase […]
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Truck Bombing in Market Kills 15; Sadrists to contest Elections Independently
Guerrillas detonated a parked truck bomb at a market in mostly Sunni Arab Dora on Wednesday morning, killing 15 and wounding 50. A big truck […]
US Airstrike Kills Dozens; Christian Proselytizing in Muslim Afghanistan
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai’s visit to Washington, DC was overshadowed by a controversy over another US airstrike gone astray in Farah Province south of Herat, […]
Suicide Bombing in Peshawar Kills 4 Troops; Zardari in DC for Talks with Obama, Karzai
As Pakistani president Asaf Ali Zardari arrived in Washington for talks with President Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, fighting intensified in Pakistan’s northwest. On […]
Karzai Rival Bows Out; NATO Troops Kill Girl
As President Obama prepares for Wednesday’s tripartite summit between himself, the president of Pakistan (Asaf Ali Zardari) and the president of Afghanistan (Hamid Karzai), he […]
Oglesby Review of Engaging the Muslim World
Thanks to Sam Oglesby for a searching review of my new book “Engaging the Muslim World. Excerpt: “Turning to the most troublesome current foreign policy […]
Strouse: Lebanon’s Elections and Iranian Influence
Thomas Strouse writes in a guest op-ed for IC: Two critical elections will take place in early June that could potentially shape the direction that […]
2 US Troops Killed Near Mosul; Iranian assault
The LAT reports that Iraqi soldiers at a base near Mosul shot and killed two US troops on Saturday and wounded a third. The US […]
Pirio: Somalia Beyond Piracy: Mogadishu’s Sheikhs Gamble on Peace
Gregory Alonso Pirio writes in a guest op-ed for IC:
AfPak as Obama’s Wars
Aljazeera English reviews the first hundred days of Obama’s policies in Afghanistan. The The NYT explains that Obama is readying a major US military push […]