My Salon column, , "Obama is saying the Wrong things about Afghanistan," , is now available online.Excerpt:' The governor of the North-West Frontier province, Owais...

It is not looking good for the holding of provincial elections in Iraq this year.First the high electoral commission warned that if enabling legislation was not passed...

First there was going to be a status of forces agreement between the US and Iraq, which would be ratified by the Iraqi parliament and would grant the US long-term bases....

Senator Barack Obama is in Iraq for consultations with American military commanders and Iraqi leaders. Despite all the talk about Iraq being "calm," I'd like to point...

Presidential hopeful Barack Obama held consultations Saturday in Kabul with Afghan government officials. He discussed the rapidly deteriorating security situation in...

The USG Open Source Center translates a report in Dari Persian on a parliamentarian and two close observers from Afghanistan who entertain the severest doubts about...

Bush has agreed in all but name with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on a timetable for US troop withdrawal from that country. As usual Bush's staff made up an...

The USG Open Source Center summarizes Russian press comment on the Gazprom deals with Libya and Iran. The deal with Iran is extremely important because if it goes...

Ambassador Gerald B. Helman writes, in a guest op-ed for IC:The decision by the Administration to send William Burns, the State Department’s third ranking official and...

Is Barack Obama in some sense Clinton 2.0 when it comes to the public's perception of what the candidate could do for the economy? Just as Clinton benefited in 1992...

Guerrillas launched a series of bombing campaigns in the eastern mixed province of Diyala and in the northern city of Mosul on Tuesday, killing at least 40 and wounding...

It is typical of the atmosphere in America today that the New Yorker cover caricaturing the Obamas is called offensive by the Obama campaign but virtually no one is...

Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that the Iraqi government is about to send troops into Diyala in an attempt to tamp down violence and combat local militias there, just as was...

Barack Obama wants to get out of Iraq by summer 2010 but wants to send 10,000 extra troops to Afghanistan.Obama's editorial is thoughtful and far more sensible than...

First, he sang 'bomb, bomb, bomb/ bomb, bomb Iran' to the tune of the Beach Boys' 'Barbara Ann.'Now, on being told that Iran has increased its importation of American...

Greg Mitchell points out that the media continue to give little coverage to non-combat-related deaths among American troops in Iraq. Actually, they seldom mention the...

The bodies of two US troops MIA were recently discovered in Iraq.Have Israeli planes been flying in Iraq, in and out of US air bases, to case Iran for and attack? The...

Aljazeera International reports on the current situation in Iraq and the negotiations between Iraq and the US for a Status of Forces Agreement. US Ambassador in Baghdad...

The USG Open Source Center reports on reactions in Iran to the possibility of the opening of a US interest section, i.e. a muted embassy, in Tehran.OSC Report: Iran --...

Madhavi Bhasin writes:On July 7th the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in an Address before the Arab Ambassadors stated that his Government was looking at the...