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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Gregory Alonso Pirio writes in a guest op-ed for IC:

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 […]

AP reports that two car bombs ripped through a commercial district in Shiite East Baghdad (Sadr City) on Wednesday evening, killing at least 41 persons […]

Brian Cloughley writes in a guest op-ed for IC: Pakistan’s army continues to face challenges, not the least of which is the growing insurrection by […]

The Pakistani military parachuted soldiers Tuesday into Buner, in the Malakand district of the North-West Frontier Province, to take on the estimated 500 militants who […]