written by Aijaz Zaka Syed
BACK home in the subcontinent, they say you should always stay away from the cops: Their friendship as well as adversity is bad for one’s health. I am reminded of the …

WASHINGTON: The direct costs of the seven-year “war on terror”, which includes operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, have reached US$752 billion, if the current year’s appropriation of $188 billion is included, according to the non-partisan …

SARAJEVO: Bosnia-Herzegovina is to send more troops to Iraq this summer and would consider sending senior officers to join NATO troops in Afghanistan next year, Bosnian defense officials said in Sarajevo. Bosnia’s Army Commander General …

TORONTO: There’s a lot we know about Afghanistan and a lot more we don’t. An expert who knows much more than most of us – whose prescient insights I have benefited from for a decade …

ISLAMABAD: Deputy Speaker National Assembly Faisal Karim Kundi has said that Pakistan attaches great importance to Iraq’s sovereignty and its territorial integrity and wishes to see an early end to the violence and return to …

THERAN: Iran has said a U.S. attack on the Islamic Republic is unlikely because the American military is bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said that Iran doubts …