Highlights
 
Obama Lifts Restrictions on Cuban-Americans    Gates: Iran Attack Would Create Backlash    Iran Welcomes Nuclear Talks    Pakistani President Signs Swat Valley Islamic Law Resolution    Iraqi Govt Accuses Media of Provoking Sectarian Strife    Avigdor Lieberman, the New Face of Israel    Iraq: US Soldier Pleads Not Guilty in Killings    US May Drop Key Condition for Talks With Iran    Is Iran 'Demonic'? Ask Dennis Ross    Lebanon's Hezbollah Savors Increasing Legitimacy    Neoconned Again    No Decisions Yet on Relocation of Guantánamo Detainees    Senate Bill Would Allow President to Shut Down Internet for National Security    Somali Islamists Claim Mortar Attack on US Politician    Only 18 Civilians Escape During Sri Lanka Cease-Fire    Thailand: Bangkok Street Violence Leaves 2 Dead    Gunmen Kill Mayor in Eastern Mosul    Iraq in Fragments    The Story of Ayman Batarfi, a Doctor in Guantánamo    Lessons From Iraq? US Creates Local Militias to Fight Taliban    Antiwar Briton Now Helping US Military Rule Iraq    Will Pirates Join Forces With Islamist Militias in Somalia?    Coalition Forces Kill 40 'Militants' in Afghanistan    12 More NATO Trailers Torched in Pakistan    US Mulls Attacks Along Somali Coast    The Fog of Warmongering    Iraq Roadside Bomb Kills US Soldier    Iraq's Military Seeks to Muzzle Two News Groups    Officials: NATO Strike Kills Six Civilians in Afghanistan    Truth and Reconciliation    An Emerging Progressive Consensus on Obama's Abuses    Cold War Déjà-Vu    
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News
Updated April 14, 2009 - 11:16 PM EDT
Afghan Officials: NATO Strike Kills Six Civilians
 
  Coalition Forces Kill 40 'Militants' in Afghanistan
Iraq Govt Accuses Media of Provoking Sectarian Strife
 
 

Iraq's Military Seeks to Muzzle Two News Groups

  Monday: 1 US Soldier, 3 Iraqis Killed; 5 Iraqis Wounded
Gates: Iran Attack Would Create Backlash
 
 

Iran Welcomes Nuclear Talks

 

US May Drop Key Condition for Talks With Iran

US Considers Attacks on Somali Pirates' Land Bases
 
 

Somali Islamists Claim Mortar Attack on US Politician

 

Will Pirates Join Forces With Islamist Militias in Somalia?

Pakistan's Swat Valley Gets Islamic Law
 
  12 More NATO Trailers Torched in Pakistan
  Pakistani PM Urges No Conditions on US Aid
Obama Lifts Restrictions on Cuban-Americans
No Decisions Yet on Relocation of Gitmo Detainees
Viewpoints
The Fog of Warmongering
by Jeff Huber
An Emerging Progressive Consensus on Obama's Abuses  by Glenn Greenwald
The Story of Ayman Batarfi, a Doctor in Guantánamo  by Andy Worthington
Iraq in Fragments  by Dahr Jamail
Avigdor Lieberman, the New Face of Israel  by Chris Hedges
Cold War Déjà-Vu  by Mike Gravel

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Frontline
Senate Bill Would Allow President to Shut Down Internet for National Security

US Soldier Pleads Not Guilty in Iraq Killings

Officials: More Navy Ships Off Somalia One Option

Georgia Protesters Intensify Push to Oust Saakashvili

Is Iran 'Demonic'? Ask Dennis Ross

 
Today in Iraq

Iraq Denies It Seeks Advanced Russian Weapons

Talabani Says Iraq Seeks to Boost Ties With Syria

Iraq Starves for Books After Decades of Sanctions and War

Hundreds of Kurds in Mosul Call for Province to Join Kurdish Region

Mahmoud Abbas Visits Northern Iraq

Attacks Continue

Gunmen Kill Mayor in Eastern Mosul

Iraq Roadside Bomb Kills US Soldier

Monday: 1 US Soldier, 3 Iraqis Killed; 5 Iraqis Wounded
Occupying Iraq

Antiwar Briton Now Helping US Military Rule Iraq

US Army Trial Started for Last Accused of Baghdad Murders

Somalia

Obama Pledges to Fight Piracy, Pirates Vow Revenge

US Rescue Raises Stakes in Piracy Operations

'3 Rounds, 3 Dead Bodies'

US Weighs Where to Charge Captured Pirate

Puntland Demands Support to Fight Pirates

Hijacked Italian, Egyptian Vessels Taken to N. Somalia

Nigeria

Gunmen Clash With Nigerian Navy in Oil Delta

Nigeria Re-Brands to Shed Chaotic Image

Africa

The Rebels on the Mountain

White Minority in S. Africa Finds an Uneasy Bond With ANC Leader

Thailand

Thai PM: Protests Nearly Crushed

Bangkok Is 'Like a War Zone'

Clashes Over Protests Are Intensifying in Thai Capital

Koreas

UN Security Council Condemns North Korea Launch

US-China Deal Blocks Japan's Action on North Korea's Rocket Launch

Seoul Radio Stations Broadcast News to North Korea

Asia

China Releases Human Rights Plan

Democratic Future Fades for Fiji

Americas
Venezuela's Chávez Singles Out Some TV Networks for 'Sanctions'

Obama Opens Door to Cuba, but Only a Crack

 
Afghanistan

Lessons From Iraq? US Creates Local Militias to Fight Taliban

Top Afghan Cleric Defends 'Rape Law'

Iran Offers to Train Afghan Police in Drugs Fight

Pakistan

Pakistani Troops Kill Three Militants Near Afghan Border

Pakistan Leader Under Pressure to Back Swat Deal

Taliban Warns MPs Against Opposing Swat Religious Laws

Pakistani Taliban to Begin Imposing Rule in New Area

Insurgents Make Inroads in Key Pakistan Province

Zardari Throws Taliban Deal to Nawaz Camp

Pakistan's Sharif Invited Back to Government

No Let-Up in Balochistan Violence

Pakistan Takes Another Mumbai Suspect Into Custody

Sri Lanka

Only 18 Civilians Escape During Sri Lanka Cease-Fire

US Official Raises Possibility of Talks With Tamil Tigers for Surrender

Tamil Protesters Storm Sri Lankan Embassy in Oslo

Sri Lanka Dumps Norway as Peace Facilitator After Embassy Attack

Britain Bans 'Mercy Ship' Bound for Sri Lanka

Nepal

Maoists Win Three Seats in Nepal's By-Polls

Nepal Maoists Forced to Retreat on Gurkha Ban

India

15 Killed in Maoist Attack at Eastern India Mine

Maoists Kill Three in Central India

Israel/Palestine

Peres: Clash Between Iran, Sunni Arabs Is Inevitable

Gaza Boat Explodes Near Israel Navy Vessel

Mitchell Visit to See if Netanyahu Really Against Two States

Israel's Arms

US Troops Take Part in Israel X-Band Radar Test

Kazakhstan: Military Hardware Bought From Israel Flawed

Russia Purchased Israeli Drones Despite Syria, Iran Objections
Lebanon

Attack on Lebanese Army Convoy Kills Five, Wounds 11

On Jumpy Lebanon-Israel Frontier, a Quiet Drug War

Lebanon's Hezbollah Savors Increasing Legitimacy

Middle East
Egypt Accuses Hezbollah of Plotting Attacks and Arms Smuggling to Gaza

Rights Group Criticizes UAE Media Restrictions

Turkish Kurd Separatists Announce Unilateral Ceasefire

 
Columnists

Justin Raimondo
4/13/2009
War, Peace, and the Season of Hope

Philip Giraldi
4/14/2009
Truth and Reconciliation

Alan Bock
4/13/2009
Empire Nearing Its End?

Ivan Eland
4/11/2009
China's Threat to the U.S. Is Exaggerated

Edouard Husson
4/10/2009
Dollar Hegemony and the Economics of Unilateralism

Nebojsa Malic
4/09/2009
Wrong Again

Charles V. Peña
4/01/2009
Is Missile Defense Obsolete?

David R. Henderson
3/31/2009
To Reduce Violence,
End the Drug War

Ran HaCohen
2/18/2009
Abe Foxman's 'Anti-Semitic Pandemic'

Praful Bidwai
1/19/2009
'Good Cop, Bad Cop' Approach to Pakistan

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