Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has said his country must reach out to its “disenchanted brothers” in an effort to stabilise the war ravaged nation.
Addressing a one-day international conference on Afghanistan’s future in London, the British capital, Karzai said that fighters who are “not part of al-Qaeda
There’s a big international conference in London beginning next Thursday to harmonize allied civilian efforts in Afghanistan. One thing to expect out of it: new “Afghan-led integration measures” to bring insurgents into line with the government, according to British Foreign Secretary David Miliband.
Miliband is before the Senate Foreign Relations More…
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the NATO secretary-general, said yesterday that he has received pledges from partner nations for an additional 5,000 troops in advance of tomorrow’s NATO foreign ministerial meeting in Brussels. He added that “several thousand” more may be possible. But if the ministerial concludes with the 5,000 troops More…
Reports are that at this week’s meeting of NATO foreign ministers, the Obama administration will press for the allies to contribute 10,000 additional troops to match the 30,000 or so American soldiers whose deployment President Obama is expected to announce on Tuesday evening. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the NATO secretary-general, has More…
President Obama will travel to Copenhagen next month to attend part of the international climate conference, The Washington Post reports.
The decision follows months of speculation over whether the president would make the trip. Obama has said for the past few weeks that he would only attend if his More…
Back in January, TWI’s Spencer Ackerman singled out former Prime Minister Tony Blair as one of the world leaders most damaged by his alliance with former President George W. Bush. According to this fascinating tidbit from the Financial Times, Blair hasn’t recovered yet. Blair, seen just weeks ago as More…
Just released by the British embassy. Coordinated with the Obama statement?
President Karzai has just made an important statement to the people of Afghanistan.
It is vital that the new Afghan Government has legitimacy in the eyes of its people.
He may not survive the upcoming U.K. election, but Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave a speech today in Parliament arguing against any strategy for Afghanistan that doesn’t prop up Afghan governing capacity:
Our objective is clear and focused; to prevent al Qaeda launching attacks on our streets and threatening
[Updated 4:08 p.m., Saturday September 26: I think this post is wrong. Carnegie's James Acton explains carefully what obligations Iran has violated. My apologies.]
The disclosure of Iran’s nuclear facility under construction for years in secret near Qom — the second such undisclosed facility operated by Iran — deepens More…
I’m not in Pittsburgh, but I do have al-Jazeera English on my TV, so here’s the announcement from the leaders of the U.S., the U.K. and France, revealing the existence of (another) heretofore undisclosed nuclear facility in Iran. The facility is reportedly still under construction, and the Iranians have More…
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