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The White House website now has an official transcript of the May 19 Remarks by the President on the Middle East and North Africa . It...

Aljazeera English has a 47-minute discussion on Pakistan, terrorism and the US, posted on YouTube 05/05/2011 PDT: Here is a 24-minute d...

We have initial versions of the military action that ended the life of Osama bin Laden. It will be interesting to see how those stories are ...

I heard a presentation yesterday at UC-Berkeley by Anatol Lieven, a former journalist who covered Pakistan extensively who is now Professor ...

Former Special Forces officer and CIA contractor Raymond Davis is scheduled to be arraigned in court in Lahore, Pakistan on Wednesday in a c...

Being a terminal news junkie, I get excited about historical dramas being played out in real time. Heck, I have a major weakness for Hegelia...

President Obama's trip to India is something to which our ally Pakistan - on whose territory we're also conducting a war - is watchi...

Juan Cole has been keeping his readers at Informed Comment up to date on the US conflict with Pakistan over drone strikes in Pakistan. Paki...

One of the lessons of the Cheney-Bush administration's 2003 invasion of Iraq on the grounds that they had "weapons of mass destruct...

Robert Gates, Obama's Republican Secretary of Defense, has been visiting India and Pakistan, with the latter being less than thrilled wi...

Peter Bergen ask Is Pakistan really such a basket case? Foreign Policy Online 08/10/09. His own answer is no. He cites Juan Cole, both at ...

But, despite the alarmist talk we've been hearing this year about how Pakistan and its nuclear weapons is about to fall under the contro...

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari Graham Usher in this article from the London Review of Books focuses on a critical element of Pakistan...

Filipe II de Habsburgo: at least he didn't try to invade Afghanistan Gene Lyons understands broad contexts in American politics as well ...

Pakistan's flag Manan Ahmed of the University of Chicago in Legends of the Fall The National (UAE) 05/07/09 argues that the notion tha...

Pat Lang observes that it is not at all clear that the Obama administration has a clear strategy for Afghanistan ( Iraq and Afghanistan Poli...

Juan Cole's Informed Comment blog is an excellent example of what a difference blogging has made in terms of the immediate information, ...

Dday at Digby's Hullabaloo blog calls it More Troops For The Graveyard Of Empires . Obama has announced he's decided to escalate the...

David Kilcullen, a counterinsurgency expert and an admirer of the brutal and controversial Phoenix Program the CIA ran in Vietnam, argues th...