Following Israel’s raid of Turkey’s blockade-running ship, it will be a miracle if the relationship between the two can ever be fully repaired.... Read more»
All of Ireland is following the progress of the Rachel Corrie to see if it becomes the little boat that finally breaks the maritime blockade of Gaza. The Irish-owned aid ship is sailing through rough seas in the Mediterranean and is due to reach its destination Friday evening or Saturday morning.... Read more»
Seen from afar, Kyrgyzstan appears finally to be returning to normal. But following a bloody April uprising that ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiyev and left more than 80 dead, analysts warn that the small Central Asian nation is far from stable and could very possibly see further unrest, if not outright political chaos.... Read more»
Polls show S. Koreans haven’t completely accepted findings that N. Korea blew up their warship.... Read more»1
The United States is being targeted by more and more by terrorists these days, but does it really matter that there is no Director of National Intelligence in his post? Hollow layers of bureaucracy were never the answer to the problems the 9/11 Commission identified.... Read more»
Taliban militants rained down rockets on Hamid Karzai’s peace conference.... Read more»
The Turkish ambassador to Israel has been recalled. Three long-planned joint military exercises between Israel and Turkey have been canceled. And that’s just the beginning of the fallout caused by Israel’s attack Monday on a flotilla of ships hoping to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza.... Read more»
It’s time for Israel to end its three-year blockade of Gaza and for the international community to abandon its failed policy of trying to isolate Hamas.... Read more»
International outrage over the deaths of at least nine people in a raid by Israeli commandos on ships trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza sparked demonstrations in Israel, Europe and across the Arab world on Monday.... Read more»
As President Hamid Karzai puts the finishing touches on his National Consultative Peace Jirga, scheduled for this week, he is facing a growing domestic crisis that could easily derail the entire process.... Read more»
Stacy was just 17 months old, and Nancy, 3 months, when Lt. Col. Morris “Mo” Crossen was killed at age 28. An Army Air Forces pilot who was deputy commander of the 367th Fighter Group, he was shot down on Oct. 20, 1944.... Read more»
Has Kim Jong-il become the (North Korean) tail that wags the (Chinese) dog? China seems afraid to take any action against crazy old Kim.... Read more»
Staff Sgt. James Ausmann, 32, wears a black metal “memorial” bracelet around his wrist with the names of two buddies killed during the Iraq invasion. “It sucks. You miss them. But you continue to do well, and make sure they didn’t die in vain.”... Read more»
Meet Cmdr. Alou Ongoiba’s special forces company of 40 men in mismatched uniforms and doo-rags sheared from actual rags — soldiers charged with scattering terrorists from the bleak Malian badlands that begin about 600 miles northeast of this practice battlefield.... Read more»
Defectors say that South Koreans’ fear of another Korean War is considerably greater than that of North Koreans, who have much less to lose.... Read more»
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