On Saturday night, after a week of living off of conference center snack bars, a group of us were invited to a delicious home-cooked meal with a real live Danish family. After spending the evening gawking at their stylish furnishings, a few of us had a...

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has warned that it will take 15 years before the country is able to pay for the cost of its own security forces.(1) Wow! Just wow! Footnote: (1) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8400806.stm

Athens - Clashes broke out on Sunday between police and demonstrators across Greece as marchers commemorated the first anniversary of the shooting death of a teenager by police, an incident that sparked the worst riots the country had seen in decades....

President Obama's Secret: Only 100 al Qaeda Now in Afghanistan With New Surge, One Thousand U.S. Soldiers and $300 Million for Every One al Qaeda Fighter By RICHARD ESPOSITO, MATTHEW COLE and BRIAN ROSS Dec. 2, 2009 — As he justified sending 30,000...

Gordon Brown yesterday set out a timetable for British troops to start pulling out of war-torn Afghanistan by this time next year. The Prime Minister responded to growing public opposition to the war by signalling that within 12 months, five of the...