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NEWS ANALYSIS: Details emerge on Ukrainian arms sale to Iraq

Kiev - A 2.4-billion-dollar Ukrainian weapons sale to Iraq will give Baghdad's army a powerful upgrade and the former Soviet republic's arms industry an unprecedented capital injection, according to news

‘No Muslim involved in suicide attacks in country’

KARACHI: Floating the idea of a change in the Pakistani society, Jamaat-e-Islami’s top leadership at a congregation of the JI’s workers unanimously blamed the United States’ agencies for terrorism, chaos

US men in Pakistan ‘jihad quest’

Five US men have been questioned in Pakistan on suspicion of wanting to join a "holy war", officials said.

Pakistan troops killed 15 militants in tribal region

Pakistan troops killed at least 15 militants in the country's troubled north western badlands near the Afghan border, officials said on Thursday.

You Get What you Vote For!

The so-called anti-war movement currently finds itself in somewhat of a quagmire: What to do when the man you raised money for, volunteered for, and yes, even voted for, actually

Israel’s role in Pakistan destabilization?

Jeff Gates analyses Israel's network of relations in the region on the article titled, "What is Israel's Role in the Destabilization of Pakistan?".

Ahmed Rashid’s War

After breakfast, I read Gideon Rachman's often revealing blog on the Financial Times website. Today there was some very good news. Ahmed Rashid, a leading adviser to the US hawks

Blackwater’s Secret War in Pakistan

At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are

Secretary Gates signs order barring release of torture photos

Pursuant to new powers delegated to him by Congress, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has executed an order blocking the release of photos depicting the torture of detainees.

Crisis in Islamic Education

To copy the practices of backward tribal groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan does not make sense in modern Indonesia nor does it make good Muslims, stresses Terry Lacey.