By Ron Corben Bangkok 26 May 2006 United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on Burma's military government to release pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest. Mr. Annan issued the call in Thailand on the last stop of a f...
By Al Pessin Kabul 15 June 2006 NATO soldiers patrol narrow lane with open sewer in Kabul The British general who commands NATO forces in Afghanistan says he has a plan for bringing security and development to the troubled southern and eastern parts...
By Al Pessin Kandahar, Afghanistan 15 June 2006 The commander of NATO forces worldwide says his troops from several countries are on track to take responsibility for security in southern Afghanistan in July, and that NATO could expand to the one rem...
By Al Pessin Washington 23 May 2006 A senior U.S. military officer says the delay in appointing new Iraqi Defense and Interior ministers will have an effect on efforts to withdraw significant numbers...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 19 May 2006 The No. 2 U.S. general in Iraq says there has been another increase in sectarian violence in the country during the last two weeks, and he blames al-Qaida for sparkin...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 12 May 2006 US troops in Baghdad (File photo) In spite of the further delay in forming a new Iraqi government Friday, the second-ranking officer in the U.S.-led Iraq coalition sa...
By Gary Thomas Washington 05 May 2006 Major General Thomas Turner The senior American military commander in northern Iraq says all the Iraqi army units in his area will take the operational lead in th...
By Al Pessin Baghdad 26 April 2006 The top U.S. military general in Iraq says his intention to recommend a significant reduction in U.S. troop levels in the country later this year is basically on tra...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 09 March 2006 The general who commands all U.S. military activities in the Middle East says the situation in Iraq is shifting from insurgency toward sectarian violence, but he sa...
By Michael Drudge London 07 March 2006 The attorney general of the United States has conceded mistakes were made in the handling of some prisoners captured in the war on terror, but he has told a Euro...