International Herald Tribune

A former top White House aide on Pakistan and Afghanistan Shamila N. Chaudhary said: The big question for the administration is, what can the Pakistanis actually deliver? Pakistan is holing its cards very closely ...

Shamila N Chaudhary, the former Pakistan Director at the White National Security Council and now an analyst at the Eurasia Group said, "The government's accounting of past due coalition support funds in next year's budgeting conveys...

Former White House National Security Council (NSC) director for Afghanistan and Pakistan Shamila Chaudhary, said that the designation would have implications for the reconciliation process ...

The CIA has carried out a long-running drone campaign in North Waziristan, with 17 of 20 strikes targeting militants in the area so far this year, according to a tally by the New America Foundation.

Hours before the judge in the latest Mikhail Khodorkovsky trial announced yet another guilty verdict last week, Russia’s most prominent political prisoner was already being attacked in cyberspace.

No, Khodorkovsky’s Web site, the main source of news about the trial for many Russians, was not being censored. Rather, it had been targeted by so-called denial-of-service attacks, with most of the site’s visitors receiving a “page cannot be found” message in their browsers.

Debate remains stifled, despite Peter Beinart's important piece this year in the New York Review of Books describing growing alienation among young American ...

The fate of the massive deposits of lithium recently discovered in Afghanistan is destined to be no different from that of landlocked Central Asia’s other natural resources: tapped by the West, and eventually controlled by the East.

Siberian timber, Mongolian iron ore, Kazakh oil, Turkmen natural gas and Afghan copper are already channeled directly to China through a newly built East-bound network that is fueling the rapid development of the world’s largest population.

Analysts at the New America Foundation recently published a data set of casualty reports that shows that at least one third of those killed in “surgical” ...

It needs the leading institutions of American Jewry to encourage broad discussion rather than, as Peter Beinart put it in an important recent essay in The New York Review of Books, checking “their liberalism at Zionism’s door." ...

More than most founders, Thomas Jefferson has a way of returning to the news cycle.

Using spectral imaging technology, the Library of Congress recently discovered a fascinating ghost inside an early draft of the Declaration of Independence. The faint trace of a rejected word — “subjects” — could be seen beneath the word that made it into the final document, “citizens.”