Zalmay Khalilzad, currently George W. Bush’s special envoy and US ambassador to Afghanistan, will be transferred as ambassador to Iraq pending Senate…
On January 4, 2004, 502 delegates agreed on a Constitution for Afghanistan , an act many have described as a positive step…
The Christian Science Monitor (September 8, 2003) calls it “Nation Building, Redoubled.” A desperate new push by the Bush administration to bring…
J anuary 29, 2003 was the date that the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) was expected to launch. Those working on the…
As the United States government and the United Nations Security Council debate the invasion, occupation, and “regime change” of Iraq, it makes…
James Ingalls The June 2002 loya jirga, or grand council, is considered to be the start of a new era in Afghanistan,…
James Ingalls The United Nations Security Council voted on December 19, 2000 to intensify the existing sanctions against the Taliban militia…
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