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KABUL – General Stanley McChrystal’s cautiously worded support for a negotiated settlement with the Taliban leadership is only the first public signal of a policy decision by the Barack Obama administration to support a political settlement between the Karzai regime and the Taliban, an official of the McChrystal’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) command has revealed in an interview with …

The Obama administration sent lawmakers this week a plan for $1.45 billion (Dh5.32bn) in aid for Pakistan this year, funding media campaigns to counter extremist views as well as water, energy and other projects. The 2010 spending plan, obtained by Reuters, was sent to lawmakers as part of the US administration’s obligation to consult Congress over the civilian aid package. …

A Dutch commission of inquiry has concluded that the US-led 2003 Iraq war was illegal under international law. The conclusion has far-reaching implications. Potentially, it could open up leading politicians and military figures in the US and Britain to prosecution for war crimes. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende of the Netherlands set up the Davids Commission in order to avoid …

A software engineer, piloting the small plane in a suicide attack on the Internal Revenue Service, crashed into the office building on Thursday February 18, 2010. A major US Muslim group has decried officials’ “double standard” in refusing to label Texas suicide plane crash as an act of terrorism. “The position of many individuals and institutions seems to be that …

It is with great pride and pleasure that the Sailan Muslim Foundation presents our first PowerPoint slide show on the Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W.) in commemoration of his 1483rd  birthday in Hijra years.

The chief author of the Bush administration’s “torture memo” told Justice Department investigators that the president’s war-making authority was so broad that he had the constitutional power to order a village to be “massacred,” according to a report released Friday night by the Office of Professional Responsibility. The views of former Justice lawyer John Yoo were deemed to be so …