• N. Korea renounces truce: US, SKorea militaries gird for NKorean provocation The U.S. and South Korea put their military forces on high alert Thursday after North Korea renounced the truce keeping the peace between the two Koreas since 1953. The North also accused the U.S. of...
• Arms Sent by U.S. May Be Falling Into Taliban Hands Comment: Falling = Being given. Anyone know of a better way to protract the "insurgency"?? Peak oil isn't going anywhere anytime soon, neither is the U.S. -- the Army will be in Afghanistan and Iraq...
• NKorea to strengthen nuclear deterrent North Korea vowed Friday to strengthen its nuclear deterrent because of what it called Washington's continuing hostile policy, as a US envoy toured the region to try to restart disarmament talks....
• North Korea Calls U.S. Policy ‘Unchanged’ Under Obama One day after an American diplomat offered new talks on North Korea’s nuclear program, the North said Friday that it had become useless to talk with the United States, adding that...
• US airstrikes kill scores of civilians in Afghanistan (WSWS) -- On the eve of a tripartite summit in Washington which the Obama administration has organized with the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan, reports from Afghanistan indicate that US air...
• Chinese antics have India fuming China's blocking of India's application for a loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has raised hackles in Delhi, marking the first time Beijing has dragged a bilateral territorial dispute with...
• Obama warns US has 'huge interests' in Pakistan President Barack Obama has voiced worries about the weakness of Pakistan's government and did not rule out US intervention if the Islamic power's nuclear weapons fell into extremist hands. In a...
• US airstrike kills six civilians in Afghanistan (WSWS) -- US attack helicopters killed six civilians Monday in Afghanistan’s mountainous eastern Kunar province near the Pakistan border. The attack follows by less than a week a raid by US...
• US expands war into Pakistan: Missile strikes to be intensified (WSWS) -- The head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, and Richard Holbrooke, the US Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, visited Islamabad Monday and Tuesday to press...
• Obama announces escalation of war in Afghanistan, Pakistan (WSWS) -- President Barack Obama on Friday announced a major escalation of the US war in Afghanistan and its further extension into Pakistan.
His statement was presented as the outcome of a review...
• Japan orders military to destroy North Korea rocket The Japanese government has ordered its military to destroy any part of the rocket that North Korea is planning to fire early next month should it approach Japanese territory. Read more
• Pakistan to get billions from U.S. despite oversight concerns The Obama administration is planning billions in new assistance to Pakistan, yet the record of previous U.S. military and development aid to the strife-torn Muslim country has been marred by a lack...
• Japan says 'ready to shoot down N. Korean long-range missile' (RIA Novosti) - Japan is ready to intercept a North Korean rocket if it appears to threaten the country's security, Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone said on Friday.
Pyongyang has...
• U.S. navy provoked South China Sea incident, China says China lashed out Tuesday at the United States, accusing a U.S. Navy ship of violating international law during a tense confrontation near a secret Chinese submarine base. Read more