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Taliban buying guns from former warlords

MAZAR-E-SHARIF, northern Afghanistan - Evidence is mounting that Taliban insurgents are purchasing the weapons they need to fight government and international forces

Australian soldier sentenced to hang in Afghanistan

A former Australian soldier has been sentenced to death in Afghanistan for shooting dead an Afghan colleague then trying to blame the killling on the Taliban, Times Online reported.

Roadside bomb kills 5 police in Afghanistan

Violence and killings continue in Afghanistan and Taliban vowes to continue.

NATO troops kill Afghan cleric, officials say

KABUL -- NATO troops in a convoy killed an Afghan cleric as he was driving Thursday in Kabul,

Haiti Gets a Penny of Each U.S. Aid Dollar

AP-- Only 1 cent of each dollar the U.S. is spending on earthquake relief in Haiti is going in the form of cash to the Haitian government, according to an

The Kidnapping of Haiti

-- The theft of Haiti has been swift and crude. On 22 January, the United States secured “formal approval” from the United Nations to take over all air and sea

Egypt Bars New MB Guide from Foreign Travel

ongratulations in being the Eighth General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, but you can’t leave the country. Muhammad Badi‘,

In the West They Say It’s Rain

"Haaretz" -- Israel, via the Interior Ministry, continues to spit in the face of friendly countries,

Indefinite Detention

(IPS) - U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to detain 47 of the just-under 200 remaining prisoners at Guantanamo without trial indefinitely is drawing scorn from legal experts and human rights

Nothing More Dangerous Than a Recovering “Realist?”

"FP" -- Back in 2002, the Council on Foreign Relations sponsored a book by Kenneth Pollack (subsequently director of research at the Saban Center for Middle East Studies at Brookings),