Obama’s Canada Visit Spotlights NAFTA
President Barack Obama made his first visit international trip as president on February 19, as he made a seven-hour visit to Canada’s capital...
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U.S. Commander Predicts Long Afghanistan Stay
Gen. David McKiernan, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, predicted on February...
Obama’s Afghan Problem
President Barack Obama decided February 16 to send an additional 17,000 U.S. soldiers to...
Pakistan Agrees to Taliban Haven in Swat Valley
The government of Pakistan announced on February 16 that it had agreed to accept...
Talking With Iran’s Terror Regime
As Iran celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Khomeini Revolution and the American hostage...
Baghdad-Tehran Axis Grows
Less than two weeks after Iraq’s provincial elections, the government of Iraqi Prime Minister...
Iraq Elections No Victory for U.S.
Provincial council elections in 14 of Iraq’s 18 provinces on January 31 strengthened Prime...
Change Comes to Bolivia
Change is being implemented throughout the month of February in the latest South American...
Satellites Collide: First Traffic Accident in Space
Like most members of the Baby Boomer generation who grew up watching movies about...
Foreign Policy Insider Holbrooke Visits Pakistan
President Barack Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, who arrived in...
Biden: Global Cop Through “Alliances”
Vice President Joseph Biden told attendees of the 45th annual Munich Security Conference that...
Russia’s Puzzling Role in Afghan Theater
On February 5, we reported about the fate of the U.S. air base at...
Fate of U.S. Base in Kyrgyzstan Uncertain
Kyrgyzstan's President Kurmanbek Bakiyev said on February 3 that his government had decided to...
First Iranian-produced Satellite Launched
Iran’s official news agency, IRNA, announced on February 3 that on the previous day...
Gaza Cease-fire Continues to Break
For the second time in two days, the cease-fire between the Hamas Palestinian terrorist...
Globalization Talk at Davos
German Prime Minister Angela Merkel proposed a new “global financial architecture” at the Davos...
Raul Castro’s Visit to Russia
Cuban President Raul Castro began an eight-day visit in Russia on January 29, when...
Mitchell Discusses Gaza in Israel, West bank
George J. Mitchell, the Obama administration's special Middle East envoy, traveled to Israel from...
The Expanding War in Afghanistan
In an announcement made to reporters in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on January...
A Sinking Island
Iceland’s government has become the first state casualty to collapse from the economic crisis...
