The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff secretly convened a highly unusual meeting of senior American and Pakistani commanders on an aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday to discuss how to combat the escalating violence along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. While officials from the two allies offered few details on Wednesday about what was decided or even discussed at the meeting, including any new strategies, tactics, weapons or troop deployments, the star-studded list of participants and the extreme secrecy surrounding the talks underscored how gravely both nations regard the growing militant threat. The leading actors in the daylong conference were Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, chief of staff of the Pakistani Army. Joining them aboard the carrier Abraham Lincoln were Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top American commander in Iraq, who will soon become the senior officer in the Middle East; Gen. David D. Mc...
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Many of the “lawmakers,” certainly many pundits, and even some military men who should know better, see the Anbar campaig... more
ISLAMABAD, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Pakistan’s army has halted construction of an expensive new headquarters in the capital, Islamabad, because of the dire economic woes facing the country.... more
After two months of heavy fighting the Pakistani army claims it has captured a strategically important Taliban military position in the country’s Bajaur province, various news agencies report.
According to unconfirmed reports some 1,500 gunmen and 73 soldiers were killed in what is being described as tough fighting in tunnels and heavy fortifications surrounding the village.
The Bajaur province is located in what is commonly referred to as the tribal areas along the borde... more
The trend toward fewer conflicts reported by peace researchers since the early 1990s now seems to have been broken. This is shown in the latest annual report “States in Armed Conflict,” from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program at the Uppsala University Department of Peace and Conflict Research. The findings worry the researchers. The Middle East is the region where peace initiatives are most conspicuous in their absence. Since the most conflict-ridden years in the early 1990s, a continuous dec... more
One of Iraq’s most powerful Shiite politicians urged the government there on Friday to curb the expanding influence of the country’s so-called "Awakening Councils," largely Sunni groups who have been financed by the United States to fight Al Qaeda and other militants in the country. The emergence of the councils earlier this year has been instrumental in curbing attacks on US troops in places like Anbar Province. The United States has been pushing the Shiite-dominated Iraqi governmen... more
Russia will use its clout at the UN to block Western plans to cement Kosovo as an independent state, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in a newspaper interview published on Friday. Kosovo’s majority Albanian population is expected to declare unilateral independence from Serbia within weeks, and the European Union, United States and other states are likely to recognize this. But Mr. Lavrov warned Russia would work through the United Nations to block the steps Western powers are planning a... more
Opinions differ as to precisely what constitutes a failed or failing state. However, when a government has lost practical control over much of the national territory and when its authority to make collective decisions is rejected by large parts of the population, then it is clear things are going badly wrong. This is the point Bolivia reached in 2007. Conditions look set to worsen in 2008. Since becoming president in January 2006, Evo Morales has embarked on what he describes as a "democratic an... more
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