The US government is cutting its funding for the supply of contraceptives to family planning clinics run by Marie Stopes International in Africa, alleging that it condones forced abortions in China. The author says the end result will ...

Britain's ambassador to Afghanistan has had some of his private thoughts on the current situation there leak to a newspaper, writes the author. The diplomat's insights are that the situation is bad and getting worse and that reinforcing ...

The violence against Christians has all occurred in states ruled by the BJP, except Orissa which is part of the ruling coalition. In all these states, gangs of Bajrang Dal activists have been involved in violent attacks, and the central ...

The violence against Christians has all occurred in states ruled by the BJP, except Orissa which is part of the ruling coalition. In all these states, gangs of Bajrang Dal activists have been involved in violent attacks, and the central ...

The author relates what was said at a meeting of top security experts concerning the current state of drug-running self-propelled semi-submersible interdiction. He says that from a maritime security concern, these boats look like they ...

Bock sees more similarities between the two presidential candidates and their foreign policy than differences. He says both men believe that the US is supposed to run the world and tell other regimes how to behave. They have only minor ...

An Iraqi journalist describes the everyday life of people in Iraq trying to survive from one checkpoint to another. He takes a bus through the town of Dora that is one of the strongholds for al Qaida in Baghdad. His driver takes a short-cut ...

Britain's most senior military commander in Afghanistan said that a compromise with the Taliban is more likely than a decisive military victory. Betz agrees that this is a realistic assessment of the situation, but there is still a chance ...

Armstrong contends that the Department of Defense is taking the lead over the State Department when it comes to the most critical aspect of the "war on terror": public diplomacy. He discusses the reasons why the Pentagon has been more ...

Qureshi describes the recent bombings in Pakistan and puts them in their international context. Pakistani authorities have sought to reassure the expatriate community here by ramping up security in the capital, mounting extra checkpoints, ...

While violence is down in Iraq, this development can spell disaster for the entire Muslim world, warns the author. For the past few years, Iraq served as a magnet for every anti-American, anti-Shiite Muslim who wanted to wage jihad. ...

Congress has agreed to a deal with India by permitting civilian nuclear trade between the two countries for the first time in three decades. Kelley says that all we got in return is a vague promise that India will be a strategic partner ...

Hijacked late last month in the Gulf of Aden, the MV Iran Deyanat remains moored offshore in Somali waters and inaccessible for inspection, writes the author. He says its declared cargo consists of minerals and industrial products. ...

Last month's attack in Kashgar just a few days before the start of the Beijing Olympics was confusing from the start, writes the author. Manning then tries to make sense of what happened based on photographs and eyewitness accounts. ...

Hitchens contends that torture is not talked about because some people are actually for it and others want security without knowing how it is obtained. The author says that resorting to torture methods represents a degradation of our ...