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22.10.2010, 03:16
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The Pentagon has announced a US $60 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia, the largest arms sales in U.S. history if it goes ahead.
18.12.2009, 15:28
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A leading Israeli missile expert said this week that the damage Iranian missiles are capable of causing Israel is limited, whereas Israel is capable of setting back Iran’s nuclear program by several years.
04.02.2010, 10:13
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While the US intensifies its crackdown on Islamist militants in Afghanistan, the country's government is considering peace talks with the Taliban.
25.02.2009, 19:14
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Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni warned that the Jewish state may launch another military operation, unless Iran stops smuggling weapons into the Gaza Strip.
25.08.2009, 18:07
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“Now that the Afghan presidential elections are over, it is high time for the US military to regain the initiative and to consider decisive military action,” says RT military analyst Evgeny Khrushchev.
10.03.2009, 15:53
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Amidst widespread calls for a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, leading Israeli strategic thinkers are suggesting that one of those two states need not be Palestine.
06.01.2010, 07:22
Private military companies are being criticized for profiteering from the conflict in Afghanistan while the number of deadly attacks keeps rising and the local population remains in an insecure environment.
25.02.2009, 15:07
Allegations that 42 Palestinian civilians near a UN school were killed by Israeli shells during last month’s fighting in the Gaza Strip have been challenged by Israeli investigators.
11.03.2009, 15:59
Moderate Arab states have begun a major effort to help the Palestinians resolve their foremost problem – not the conflict with Israel, but the internal divisions that have split the Palestinians into two hostile camps.
28.05.2009, 22:56
At least eleven people have been killed in two blasts in the city of Peshawar, north-west Pakistan. Attackers hit a market and a police checkpoint.
Published: 01 July, 2009, 03:06
Iraqis are not ready enough to run the country, its politics are still amateur and a lot of work has to be done, says Raed Jarrar, a blogger and anti-war activist. But, he believes, its Iraqis who should do that work.
Agreed - whether the Iraquis are ready or not, it is their country and they have to run their own affairs. Aside from the rights and wrongs of the original invasion, the US (and others) should have left at the earliest opportunity. Any government installed during occupation is likely to be seen as a US puppet (even if this in incorrect). The US forces can only have delayed conflicts between ethnic and political factions and any interference from Iran. US forces won't have changed the final outcome by staying in Iraq.