The American State Department has withdrawn all Fulbright grants to Palestinian students in Gaza hoping to pursue advanced degrees at American institutions this fall because Israel has not granted them permission to leave.
The American State Department has withdrawn all Fulbright grants to Palestinian students in Gaza hoping to pursue advanced degrees at American institutions this fall because Israel has not granted them permission to leave.
The dapper octogenarian in a crisp blue suit, his face smoothed by plastic surgery, swanned from table to table in the candlelit banquet hall, bestowing kisses and collecting accolades.
Posed at this time, the question is enormous.
The Bush administration is scrambling to engage with Pakistan's new rulers as power flows from its strong ally, President Pervez Musharraf, to a powerful civilian government buoyed by anti-American sentiment.
The United States mistakenly sent Taiwan four fuses used to trigger nuclear warheads on ballistic missiles in late 2006 and only discovered the error last week, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
WASHINGTON'S two top policy planners on Pakistan were given a "public dressing down" in Islamabad yesterday and left in little doubt that the country's involvement in the war against terrorism was set to change.
The 94-page report on 2007 criticizes many Muslim and Arab countries for encouraging anti-Semitism, and an entire chapter is devoted to anti-Semitism at the United Nations.
US President George W. Bush is said to have approved a covert initiative to overthrow the Hamas government shortly after Hamas won the January 2006 parliamentary election, according to confidential documents obtained by Vanity Fair magazine.
In one of his many speeches on the sources of Islamic terrorism, George W.
In my film Death of a Nation, there is a sequence filmed on board an Australian aircraft flying over the island of Timor. A party is in progress, and two men in suits are toasting each other in champagne.
A senior US diplomat yesterday said some fraud was to be expected in Pakistan's elections on February 18 but the US was working hard to ensure a poll that is "as free and fair as possible".
THE US declassified documents today detailing how Washington propped up ex-Indonesian leader Suharto, who died at the weekend, at the expense of democracy and human rights.
Eight U.S. State Department veterans have severely criticized the official account of 9/11 and called for a new investigation.
[T]he lucrative relationship between Giuliani's security firm and the emirate of Qatar -- prompts questions that "America's Mayor" might have found truly hard to answer.
The case of Nada Nadim Prouty is a Bush national security nightmare.
Shortly after Condoleezza Rice took charge of the 57,000-person State Department in 2005, she said she relished the challenge of "line responsibility" in leading a large organization. "I really enjoy that," she said in an interview.
UNITED NATIONS, November 6 -- In order to requisition Darfur peacekeeping infrastructure services, in a way that resulted in U.S.-based Lockheed Martin getting a $250 million no-bid contract, the UN earlier this year brought in six outside procurement officials from NATO, also on …
Britain will start accepting applications for refuge and financial assistance from Iraqi translators and others who have worked with British forces in Iraq, the British military said on Monday.
The United States will review billions of dollars worth of financial assistance to Pakistan following President Pervez Musharraf's decision to suspend the constitution and declare a state of emergency, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday.
This Sunday, after Pakastani President Pervez Musharraf "imposed emergency rule and suspended the constitution in a bid to save his job," an adviser to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice "saw a silver lining in the rapid turn of events"
Last January, I spent 24 hours in Baghdad with Lieutenant Colonel Steven Miska, an extremely capable deputy brigade commander, who introduced me to some of the Iraqi interpreters on his base.
You almost have to feel sorry for Condoleezza Rice these days. Seems that the Secretary of State is under attack on all fronts. Dissension in the ranks - possible insubordination - resignations - forced assignments.