By ALISSA J. RUBIN and HABIB ZAHORI KABUL, Afghanistan — A local officials in western Afghanistan reported Tuesday that a low-level police commander had switched sides with his men and gone to fight for the Taliban, and an American engineer was reported killed in an area less than 50 miles from the Afghan capital. The apparent defection occurred in the Bala Baluk district of Farah Province in the far west p ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan BEIRUT — With warplanes circling overhead, Syrian attack helicopters pounded rebel-held neighborhoods in Aleppo on Tuesday in an escalation of the battle for the country's commercial capital and largest city, residents and activists said. Following a pair of rebel assaults on the country's two main cities and a bombing that wiped out some of his top security last week advisors, Pre ...

By Imran Malik In a blatant display of overwhelming power and clout, the US forced Pakistan’s hand in the nerve wrecking and vital battle of wits for the Nato supply routes and by implication the future of its Afghan campaign. The US pressure tactics included a double pincer movement of sorts, comprising a strategic and an economic prong targeting Pakistan’s obvious vulnerabilities. The [caption id="attachm ...

Maimuna Ashraf Finally a decided decision has explicitly declared, NATO supply has been resumed since the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she was ‘sorry’ for the loss of life in a botched air raid.  This sorry is being issued after seven months of the demise of twenty-four Pakistani soldiers, who lost their lives as a result of NATO attack on Pakistani military check post. The US [caption id="att ...

 Zaheerul Hassan Acoording to ISPR five people killed in   an MI-17  helicopter crash of the Pakistan Aviation. The helicopter  was on its test flight.  The pilot and a co-pilot, have also been  killed . Reportedly,  the helicopter was on a routine flight when it caught fire near the Skardu airport.The pilot tried landing the helicopter at the nearest airbase, but it crash after catching fire. ...

By Derek Reveron There are roughly 900 days to go until NATO plans to shift responsibility for combat operations to Afghan forces in December 31, 2014. This is a long time and the timetable could shift through progress or frustration, but the force that will assume the lead for combat is being built today. While there is a steady stream of bad news coming from Kabul--corruption, the insider threat, and hero ...

Akiva Eldar American business magnate Sheldon Adelson.Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson reportedly is attempting to influence the results of the upcoming U.S. election in accordance with what he believes is Israel's interest. Adelson’s moves remind me of a joke sometimes told in Washington: A few days before the elections, President Obama invites the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to the White ...

For 22 years this contested region has endured a regime of torture and disappeared civilians. Now a local laywer is discovering their unmarked graves and challenging India's abuses Cathy Scott-Clark   One sodden evening in April 2010, an Indian army major from the 4 Rajputana Rifles arrived at a remote police post where the mountains gather in a half-hitch around Kashmir, India's northernmost state. Major O ...