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U.S. Targets Afghan Drug Lords Tied to Taliban
The United States has placed 50 suspected Afghan drug traffickers with ties to the Taliban on a Pentagon target list of 367 insurgents...
Pakistan’s Taliban Chief Baitullah Mehsud Is Killed
Pakistan's foreign minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, told reporters in Islamabad on August 7, "According to my intelligence information, the news [that Taliban leader...
Read moreAhmadinejad Sworn in as Iran’s President Amid Protests
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in for a second term as Iran's president on August 5, as hundreds of opposition supporters demonstrated against his...
Read moreU.S. Journalists Come Home After N. Korean Pardon
Euna Lee and Laura Ling, the two American journalists arrested by North Korean border guards on March 17 after straying into North Korean...
Read moreCommunism Still Stands in the “Stans”
The mass media tells us that communism around the world fell with the tearing down of the Berlin Wall in 1989. It’s almost...
Read moreIran Detains Three American Tourists
At least two Iranian state-run TV stations — Press TV and al Alam — reported on August 1 that the nation's border police...
Read moreTerrorist Targeting of Police
To the headlines listed below could be added hundreds more cataloging the concerted global attack by terrorist organizations against law enforcement. ...
Read moreAdvisers Call for Afghanistan Troop Buildup
Voice of America (VOA) News reported on July 29 that Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) — a...
Read moreIranian Police Clash With Mourners
Hundreds of mourners gathered at Tehran's Behesht-e Zahra cemetery on July 27 to honor those killed in the unrest that followed the June...
Read moreGates Indicates Faster Iraq Pullout
Voice of America (VOA) News reported on July 29 that Defense Secretary Robert Gates — speaking after a two-day visit to Iraq —...
Read moreObama Presses Israel on West Bank Settlements
U.S. special envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell wrapped up three days of talks in the Middle East on July 28, telling...
Read morePoll: Britons Turn Against Afghan War
A poll carried out by ComRes for the British tabloid newspaper The Independent on July 28 has found that 58 percent of Britons...
Read moreObama Welcomes “Strong, Prosperous and Successful ” China
On the morning of July 27, President Barack Obama addressed the opening session of the first U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue at the...
Read moreClinton Statements from ASEAN Forum Revealing
While in Thailand to attend the 16th regional forum of the Association of Southeast Nations, or ASEAN, to be held at the nation's...
Read moreClinton Expresses Concerns About N. Korea-Myanmar Ties
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Bangkok, Thailand, yesterday for a forum of the Association of Southeast Nations, or ASEAN, which begins...
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