Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkiye [Turkey] is a European country, since part of its territory lies in Europe. So the following sentence is true: […]
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Pirio: Somalia Beyond Piracy: Mogadishu’s Sheikhs Gamble on Peace
Gregory Alonso Pirio writes in a guest op-ed for IC:
AfPak as Obama’s Wars
Aljazeera English reviews the first hundred days of Obama’s policies in Afghanistan. The The NYT explains that Obama is readying a major US military push […]
Sadr City Car Bombs Kill 41; Violence in Baghdad returns to 2008 Levels
AP reports that two car bombs ripped through a commercial district in Shiite East Baghdad (Sadr City) on Wednesday evening, killing at least 41 persons […]
Cloughley: PAKISTAN’S ARMY, THE TALIBAN, AND WASHINGTON
Brian Cloughley writes in a guest op-ed for IC: Pakistan’s army continues to face challenges, not the least of which is the growing insurrection by […]
Pakistani Army Takes Capital of Buner, Pushing Back Taliban Advance; Obama Considering More Aid
The Pakistani military parachuted soldiers Tuesday into Buner, in the Malakand district of the North-West Frontier Province, to take on the estimated 500 militants who […]
Obama’s First Hundred Days in the Greater Middle East
The hundred day benchmark for journalists sizing up a new administration is probably inappropriate on foreign affairs, which are complicated and move slowly. Still, we […]
Al-Maliki Denounces US Raid as Violating SOFA; Larijani dissatisfied with US
AP reports that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has denounced a US raid in Kut as a violation of the security agreement between Washington and Baghdad. […]
Pakistan Crisis and Social Statistics
Readers have written me asking what I think of the rash of almost apocalyptic pronouncements on the security situation in Pakistan issuing from the New […]
Maliki Government Resists Deal with Baathists
The NYT reports that behind the scenes the US has been pressuring Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to find a way to reconcile with former Baathist […]
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