WASHINGTON, DC: The Obama administration has affirmed that, while it will not participate directly, it supports the idea of peace negotiations between the Afghan Taliban and the Afghan government. This nod from the White House followed the (...)
WASHINGTON, DC: Perhaps never in history have nuclear security, non-proliferation, and arms control received the prominence that they will during this month's strategic trifecta: the April 6 release of the latest United States Nuclear Posture Review (...)
NEW YORK: Preoccupation with Afghanistan's disputed presidential election is understandable. Ending the country's violence will require a government with both the legitimacy and capacity to tackle the underlying sources of the Taliban (...)
The debate between the United States and Russia over US plans to deploy ballistic missile defenses in Europe is heating up again. Persistent differences with Poland over its conditions for accepting defensive interceptor missiles have led American (...)
The long-sought joint peacekeeping force for Darfur, which would combine the existing 7,000-man African Union force with as many as 20,000 additional military personnel and civilian police under UN command, has now been approved. But several (...)