Politics

FORMER UN weapons inspector Hans Blix has questioned the judgment of Britain and the US in invading Iraq on the basis of evidence of weapons of mass destruction that was clearly “poor”. Giving evidence to […] […]

HUNDREDS of Afghan lives have been put at risk by the leaking of 90,000 intelligence documents to WikiLeaks because the files identify informants working with NATO forces. In just two hours of searching the WikiLeaks […] […]

JULIAN Assange steps into the glare of lights at a London club. He is believed to be 38 and his hair is white. He is wearing a jacket, white shirt and combat trousers. He speaks […] […]

THE Afghan government says 52 civilians, including women and children, died when a NATO rocket struck a village in southern Afghanistan – a report disputed by the international coalition yesterday. The allegation was raised as […] […]

THE Pentagon has launched the hunt for the source of the huge leak of documents about the Afghanistan war, amid fears over the risk to US-led forces and funding for the conflict. The White House […] […]

THE new chief executive of embattled oil giant BP has vowed to “change the culture” of how the company tackles safety issues after the Gulf of Mexico disaster and promised to “make sure this does […] […]

WASHINGTON—Intelligence officials, past and present, are raising concerns that the WikiLeaks.org revelations could endanger U.S. counterterror networks in the Afghan region, and damage information sharing with U.S. allies. People in Afghanistan or Pakistan who have […] […]

IRAN “deeply regrets and condemns” a new set of tough European Union sanctions aimed at pressuring Tehran to resume talks on its controversial nuclear program. “These sanctions will not help in resuming talks and will […] […]

Sometimes the darkest secrets are hidden in plain sight. A leaked tsunami of U.S. military documents confirms many of the worst Canadian fears about an Afghanistan war being fought against a determined enemy with duplicitous […] […]

WASHINGTON—The U.S. and Pakistani governments moved swiftly Monday to say that a trove of leaked U.S. military documents paints a dated and incomplete portrait of Pakistan as an untrustworthy partner against militants who use the […] […]