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"During the Clinton administration there was also widespread resentment of the United States' unilateralism and bullying as a superpower, but we forget ...

Some conservatives are quick to note she lacks experience managing such a large organization as the State Department. But the consensus in foreign-policy ...

She's superhawkish on Israel and Palestine and opposed even modest human rights legislation like restricting the export of cluster mines to countries that ...

But people who've worked with Clinton on foreign-policy issues and seen her in international action, like Ambassador Swanee Hunt of Harvard's Kennedy School ...

But other progressives, like Lawrence Korb of the Center For American Progress (CAP), sa

... but what surprised me was how much she knew about lots of other defense issues," says Mr. Korb, a former Pentagon official in the Reagan administration. ...

The missile strike on Wednesday was aimed at a residential compound in the village of Indi Khel, about 22 miles outside the town of Bannu, according to an ...

The missile strike came a day after the United States military announced that it was working in co-ordination with Pakistani forces to intercept and ambush ...

The attack appeared to represent a widening of the American campaign aimed at killing militants with al Qaeda and the Taliban, who use safe havens in ...

Heavy military equipment and other supplies for the soldiers in Afghanistan

But the Americans have accused the Pakistanis of not doing enough to stop the militants who cross from their safe havens in the Pakistani tribal areas to ...

Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the chief of the Pakistani Army, who was meeting with NATO commanders in Brussels, urged a halt to the American missile attacks, ...

The fight will go on in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia and beyond. In short, Al Qaeda's war against the world won't stop because of an election in ...

The election of Obama is a Defeat to the United States in Iraq and a Victory to the Jihadists On the American people's admission of defeat in Iraq. ...

I tell them: America has put on a new face, but its heart full of hate, mind drowning in greed, and spirit which spreads evil, murder, repression and ...

First, Al Qaeda monitors the reaction from of the international community, both from the Arab and Muslim world and also from other Islamist authorities. ...

Zawahiri isn't buying the version proposed by other anti-American critics of Washington's War on Terror. Most of Europe's left, the Arab authoritarian ...

Al Qaeda's number two had to address the election of a black president of the United States because of the two massive changes this choice has brought to ...

The secret and illegal funding of that war led to the Iran-Contra affair, in which proceeds from secret arms sales to Iran were funneled to the Contras. ...

Sophia Montenegro, the head of the Autonomous Women's Movement, one of the groups targeted, said of Ortega: "He is losing touch with reality. ...

So has the Organization of American States and the Catholic Church here. "The election was not transparent, and there were many problems," said US ...

During the 1980s, the Reagan administration supported a force known as the contras in a proxy war against the Sandinistas. The secret and illegal funding of ...

Critics charge that he and Nicaragua, the poorest country in Central America, are marching backward, away from relatively peaceful, transparent, democratic ...

"The election was not transparent, and there were many problems," said US Ambassador Robert Callahan. "We are very concerned about the election process, ...

The attack appeared to represent a widening of the American campaign aimed at killing militants with al Qaeda and the Taliban, who use safe havens in ...

Permission is being requested from Central Asian states so that supplies can move through them to the Afghan front, he said. The fragility of the NATO ...

Heavy military equipment and other supplies for the soldiers in Afghanistan move on trucks from the Pakistani port of Karachi north through the Khyber Pass ...

The missile strike on Wednesday was aimed at a residential compound in the village of Indi Khel, about 22 miles outside the town of Bannu, according to an ...

Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the chief of the Pakistani Army, who was meeting with NATO commanders in Brussels, urged a halt to the American missile attacks, ...

"The Pakistani military then launched a mortar strike on the Insurgents' firing location inside Pakistan," an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) ...

"The Pakistan soldiers assured ISAF that they would engage any insurgents attempting to flee deeper into Pakistan." US and Afghan forces have fought pitched ...

The US military contacted the Pakistani military after a US combat outpost and an Afghan checkpoint came under "artillery fire" from Taliban forces ...

He has conducted meetings with the Bajaur Scouts, a unit that is part of Pakistan's Frontier Corps, as well as with the Pakistani Army. ...

"The Pakistani military then launched a mortar strike on the insurgents' firing location inside Pakistan," an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) ...

By Bill RoggioNovember 20, 2008 1:59 PM US and Pakistani forces operating along the porous border between Afghanistan's Paktika province and the Waziristan ...

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Like the globe's other piracy hot spot, the narrow Strait of Malacca between Malaysia and Indonesia, the Gulf of Aden is one of the most sensitive choke ...

But Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said some of the blame must fall on the shippers themselves, who have not done enough to protect their cargo. ...

"These are not just unskilled bandits," said Russian Navy spokesman Igor Dygalo. "Most likely we are dealing with two or even three pirate syndicates ...

"I take issue with this whole notion that it's incumbent upon the armed forces of the world, the navies of the world, to solve this problem," Morrell said ...

General Petraeus has been an open advocate of regional diplomacy as a key counterinsurgency tactic. On Oct. 15, he told a round table of Washington Post ...

... but it's not anywhere near what the Pakistanis like to suggest," says Marvin Weinbaum, an analyst at the Middle East Institute in Wa

"India wants to destabilize [Pakistan's tribal areas] and Balochistan," said Rahman Malik, a Pakistani government security adviser during a trip to ...

"Even today, the Pakistani military sees India as the threat," says Ms. Dormandy, of Harvard. "Until that attitude changes, you're not going to see Pakistan ...

Kerry, who voted in 2002 to authorize the Iraq war that Obama opposed, introduced the first Senate amendment in 2006 to withdraw US combat forces from Iraq. ...

It is responsible for vetting international treaties before ratification by the full Senate, and for conducting the confirmation hearings for presidential ...

He also negotiated the creation of a war crimes tribunal to try the perpetrators of genocide in Cambodia, was instrumental in normalizing US relations with ...

Bacevich, whose son, army First Lieutenant Andrew Bacevich, was killed at age 27 by a roadside bomb in Iraq in May 2007, added: "Things have gone badly ...

"The role of Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair is enormously influential," Carter said. "It gives the person who holds it an incredible position to ...