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CFR President Richard Haass: Do Less in Afghanistan
Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass has penned a cover story for Newsweek magazine calling for a smaller U.S. presence in Afghanistan,...
Clinton Announces New U.S. Sanctions On North Korea
Speaking at a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on July 21 that the United States will...
Read moreConference Backs Karzai Plan for Afghan-led Security by 2014
International leaders meeting at a conference held at the Afghan Interior Ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan, on July 20 renewed their commitment to turn...
Read moreIranian Scientist Shahram Amiri: Un-Defector or Kidnapping Victim?
The return of Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri to Iran from CIA custody has news agencies wondering whether he defected or was kidnapped by...
Read moreKarzai Approves Plan for Afghan Defense Forces
AP and the New York Times reported on July 15 that on the previous day the Afghan government approved a U.S.-backed plan to...
Read moreObama Appoints Gen. Mattis for U.S. Central Command
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates recommended Marine Corps General James Mattis July 8 to head the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), the joint military command for...
Read moreCNN Editor Fired for Praising Late Ayatollah With Hezbollah Ties
Octavia Nasr, a senior Middle East editor at CNN, has been fired from her position after writing in a post on Twitter that she...
Read moreAdding Refueling to the Fire of U.S.-Iran Tensions
“Airports in Britain, Germany, and the United Arab Emirates have refused to offer fuel to Iranian passenger jets after unilateral sanctions imposed by...
Read moreChina, Taiwan Sign Trade Pact Linking Economies
Trade representatives of mainland China and the Republic of China on Taiwan signed a trade deal called the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA)...
Read moreCoronation in Communist North Korea
What is the political ideology that governs the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea? Communism, its government proclaims. Communism, on paper, rejects dynastic rule....
Read moreWhat to Do About Afghanistan?
On June 7 of this year, our ongoing war in Afghanistan surpassed the Vietnam War as the longest war in American history. In...
Read moreThe Mystery of Israel’s “Prisoner X”
Who is Prisoner X? That is the question being asked in Israel following the brief publication of a story about a mysterious prisoner...
Read moreKyrgyz Fighting Sounds Like the Old World
Ethnic violence is rocking Kyrgyzstan. Uzbek citizens of the central Asian nation are alleging atrocities committed against them by Kyrgyz gangs roaming those...
Read moreVast Mineral Wealth Found in Afghanistan
The New York Times on June 14 quoted a statement from General David Petraeus, commander of the United States Central Command (USCENTCOM) that...
Read moreNATO Offers Mixed Signals on Afghanistan
AP reported statements from NATO leaders on June 11 declaring that the alliance had “regained the initiative” in the Afghan war, along with...
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