An anonymous soldier sent The Los Angeles Times a series of 18 graphic photographers of United States military personnel posing with Afghan corpses. On Wednesday, the newspaper published a selection of those photos. The Pentagon has condemned the images and has launched a criminal investigation.
To explain what this ongoing situation means to the people of Ivory Coast is Mamadou Diouf, Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University. Former UN Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan Peter Galbraith also joins us.
Secret military documents released by WikiLeaks, and published in The New York Times yesterday, show that Pakistan's intelligence service has been aiding the Taliban in Afghanistan. Peter Galbraith looks more closely at the documents.
Senior Pakistani officials, led by Pakistan's foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, are in Washington today for talks with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. But there are some questions around who is really running the show.
A U.N.-backed election commission has determined that neither of the two leading candidates received a majority of votes. That finding could result in a runoff between Karzai and his leading opponent, Abdullah Abdullah.
Peter Galbraith, recently dismissed from UN mission in Afghanistan, accuses Karzai's government of 'blatantly stealing an election.'
Bosnia, a republic of the former Yugoslavia, was torn apart by ethnic violence in the early 1990s. A diplomatic breakthrough helped end that war in 1995.
The Gulf War unfolded almost without a hitch and unlike Vietnam, the ending seemed clean, but it didn't take long for that image to unravel.