The Iranian newspaper Tabnak reports that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in a speech on Wednesday, took a hard line with Russia and…
Patrick Martin of the Toronto Globe and Mail gets the diction right when he says that Iyad Allawi’s list won a thin…
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Gen. David Petraeus, a straight shooter, admitted on Meet the Press Sunday that the Afghanistan War will take years and incur high…
A string of bombings on Sunday targeted political offices of those parties willing to contest the March 7 parliamentary elections, including secular…
(1/24/2010) — Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates’s trip to Pakistan this weekend has in many ways been public relations disaster, and…
The ongoing political turmoil in a major Pakistani city to which few Americans pay much attention could nevertheless prove pivotal to the…
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WHAT, what, what, What’s the news from Swat? Sad news, Bad news, Comes by the cable led Through the Indian Ocean’s bed,…
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