WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Hosni Mubarak was toppled after three decades in power. But the army is back in full control -- pending a new constitution, subject to popular ratification, a new multi-party system, and national elections. This will take many months of palavering. And the revolutionaries already feel robbed of their victory. Stay tuned for round 2.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Between World War I and World War II, Egypt hovered between faux colonialism and faux democracy, going from bad to worse. The land of the pharaohs has known only six years of real democracy in its 5,000-year history.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- From Tunisia to Egypt to Jordan to Lebanon, the Arab world’s Islamist extremists are stoking anti-American fires. Prudence dictated that President Obama ignore the Mideast in his State of the Union.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Al-Qaida seems to be making up for lack of spectacular acts of terrorism by talking and writing about the need to steal funds from apostates. Its online magazine “Inspire” published tips on “How to make a pipe bomb in your Mom’s kitchen.” Deadly stuff, but a far cry from the Twin Towers of 9/11.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Some $22.4 billion in U.S. taxpayer funds out of $56 billion allocated to reconstruction projects in Afghanistan cannot be accounted for. Where did the missing billions go?
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Faced with a feckless and fumbling, inept and corrupt civilian power vacuum, the Pakistani army has quietly taken back control of government for the fifth time since independence 64 years ago.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. policy in Pakistan is now stuck in a Catch-22 quagmire. Without Pakistan, there is no solution to the Afghan war. And even with Pakistan, the odds aren't much better.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The world’s most powerful nation threatened with a slide to Third World ranking? That’s how the world’s most prestigious publication described signs of deterioration. But others see a brand new future on the geopolitical horizon once POTUS sheds a couple of albatrosses.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Prominent academics, writers and NGO members, all with Afghan experience, sent a joint letter to President Obama that called for a major change in U.S. strategy “because the Taliban insurgency has made progress across the country.”
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- The WikiLeaks scandal is a war for the future of the Internet.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A crack Australian hacker with a leftist international agenda panicked the world of diplomacy by releasing hundreds of thousands of classified and secret U.S. government messages. But who is this 39-year-old crack Aussie hacker – and what’s his agenda?
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Neither Russia nor the U.S. and its NATO allies believe they are a threat to each other. But huge stockpiles of nerve gas, chemical agents, biological weapons, pathogens, and city-busting nukes inherited from the Soviet Union are yet to be destroyed by the Nunn-Lugar Global Threat Reduction program operated by the former Cold War enemies.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- A $3 billion U.S. bribe to get Israel to stop expanding settlements for three months? That’s the way it was widely interpreted. But an independent Palestinian state? Not in the cards.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Between the stunning remarks of one of Pakistan’s most prominent newspaper editors and a Council on Foreign Relations task force on Afghanistan and Pakistan, there was little room for optimism. For those who covered the Vietnam War, it begins to sound like deja vu all over again.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu says it’s time for Iran “to fear a military strike against its nuclear program.” Saudi Arabia’s former spy master says such a strike would be “calamitous…not just catastrophic.”
