Maliki has made remarks favoring Obama's 16 month withdrawal plan. Lynch tries to deduce what Maliki's remarks really mean and says there are three possibilities: Maliki doesn't really mean it and it's not significant, it's an outcome ...

The author looks at how the IAEA's India safeguards agreement will analyze and draw conclusions about Indian compliance. He says the IAEA should use the state-level approach, which means it will look into a potential mismatch before ...

The national Terrorist Watch List has now crossed one million names. Doctorow points out what that really means: a million Americans suspected of being terrorists who will spend their days being harassed, denied the fundamental right ...

The recent assassination of Indian Defence Attaché in Kabul is a watershed in the ongoing undeclared low intensity war in Afghanistan. The blast was the deadliest in Kabul since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Nearly 150 other people ...

The recent assassination of Indian Defence Attaché in Kabul is a watershed in the ongoing undeclared low intensity war in Afghanistan. The blast was the deadliest in Kabul since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Nearly 150 other people ...

The American Physical Society has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming. The author says CO2 is not as important as other factors beyond human ...

Levy writes that the prisoner exchange undoubtedly favors Hizbollah. It has embellished Hizbollah's sense of having been the victor of the 2006 war and enhanced its standing in Lebanon and beyond. However, the basic divisions in Lebanon ...

US and Afghan troops have abandoned a remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan where militants killed nine American soldiers this week. Hruska points out that historically the winner is the army that holds onto the ground and does not retreat ...

The Bush administration is considering the withdrawal of additional combat forces from Iraq beginning in September. The author says this withdrawal is possible because of the successful policies of the Bush Administration, not their ...

After nearly 13 years on the run, Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, was arrested this evening in a Belgrade suburb and turned over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Serbia has been eager ...

Hidary notes that 55% of all the oil used in the US is guzzled by cars and SUVs. As a result, we need look no farther than our driveways to find the primary cause of our nation's energy crisis. He says the government should partner with ...

Hidary notes that 55% of all the oil used in the US is guzzled by cars and SUVs. As a result, we need look no farther than our driveways to find the primary cause of our nation's energy crisis. He says the government should partner with ...

The US plans to establish a diplomatic presence in Tehran for the first time in 30 years. Rozen says it is uncertain whether the move is a one-time offer by Washington to demonstrate its willingness to negotiate only if Iran should agree ...

Yesterday's deadly strike on an American outpost in Afghanistan didn't just kill nine US soldiers, writes the author. The Taliban attackers, who could have been as many as 200, managed to breach the walls of the remote base on the Pakistan ...

The author gives a summary of the conflict in Kashmir: what it's about, who is involved, possible solutions, and how to go about enacting them. He says given the current leadership of Pakistan and India, there is hope that by carrying ...