KABUL, Afghanistan – Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is keeping the pressure on Pakistan and expressed continued frustration with the country’s failure to root out the terrorist Haqqani network. “We are reaching the limits of...
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has backed the use of drones to target militants in Pakistan, two days after a missile strike reportedly killed al-Qaeda leader Abu Yahya al-Libi. Mr Panetta said the US...
(Reuters) – Far apart on so many issues, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas almost certainly see eye to eye on the Egyptian presidential election. Both would like Ahmed Shafiq,...
DAMASCUS – Syria barred a string of U.S. and European diplomats Tuesday, saying they were “no longer welcome” as the country plunged into its most profound international isolation in decades. Last week, Western nations...
Israel is arming submarines supplied and largely financed byGermany with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles, influential German news weekly Der Spiegel reports in its issue to be published on Monday. The magazine said in a cover story that Berlin had...
(multimedia) Pakistan has tested its indigenously developed Hatf 9 nuclear missile, capable of striking targets at close range. Report by Sam Datta-Paulin.
(multimedia) Following the bloody 108 person massacre on May 25, the United States and several other countries have either expelled their Syrian ambassadors or given them 72 hours notice to leave. Al Jazeera reports —...
(Reuters) – United Nations nuclear inspectors have found uranium particles refined to a higher-than-expected level at an underground site where Iran has installed more than 50 percent more enrichment centrifuges, a U.N. watchdog report said on...
Washington – As one diplomatic effort after another fails to end more than a year of brutal violence in Syria, the Obama administration is preparing a plan that would essentially give U.S. nods of...
Iran and six world powers are meeting in Baghdad hoping to silence what President Barack Obama called the “drums of war”, as Britain said that it was examining its options should war break out...
