The nearly 2,000-mile border between the United States and Mexico symbolizes much of what is dissatisfying about the practical realities...

In a huge blow to President Obama’s Mideast peace talks, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has decided not to take part in the...

In a classic tale of the government telling us something that its obvious to everyone, senior national security officials have stated...

The Obama administration failed to close Guantanamo Bay by its January 2010 deadline. Now the administration has announced that it will...

US Defense Secretary Gates visited Pakistan this week to help end a “trust deficit” between the two countries. Gates, speaking at a...

The army is investigating the supervisors of Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Hasan. Hasan is an army psychiatrist who is believed to be...

A week after US Defense Secretary Gates warned that al–Qaeda groups could be trying to inflame tensions between India and Pakistan, the...

After more than thirty years of intermittent development, Iran’s first nuclear power plant, located in the southwestern Bushehr province,...

Yesterday, three international soldiers and fourteen insurgents died in combat in the Afghan province of Helmand. Two of the allied...

President Obama missed his 2010 deadline to close Guantanamo Bay.  The rural Illinois prison, proposed by Obama, does not look promising...

In response to recent headway made by ISAF’s revamped counterinsurgency strategy, Taliban leaders have initiated a new campaign to regain...

The trial of high-profile terror suspect and suspected al-Qaeda supporter Aafia Siddiqui commenced earlier this week in the U.S. District...

United States Defense Secretary Robert Gates visited Pakistan on January 21 to discuss anti-militant operations in South Asia. Gates...

After Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab failed to properly detonate a bomb on an airliner entering Detroit on Christmas day, Abuubaker al-Qirbi,...

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced that all direct flights between the United Kingdom and Yemen would be suspended immediately...

CFR’s Adam Segal, a counterterrorism and national security studies expert, discusses censorship issues in the wake of recent conflict...

The US/India relationship continues to attract the highest levels of attention as Secretary of Defense Gates is currently in India only...

The U. S. Army has awarded a contract to the Herndon, VA based firm Blackbird Technologies Inc. for troop rescue operations in Iraq. ...

Official U.S. agency reports from this past month indicate a surge in drone attacks in the Pakistani tribal areas. A pre-dawn Sunday...

A new report by the international consulting and research firm Deloitte predicts that the Department of Defense is likely to decrease its...