The Kurdistan Region's place within Iraq, Anthony Skinner
On 16 July 2009, the prime minister of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Nechirvan Barzani, said in an interview that the KRG and the Iraqi federal government were closer to war than at any time since the US-led invasion in...
Four arrested in Australia for suspected terrorism plot, Geraint Rees
Australian police today detained four men suspected of planning to carry out a suicide terrorist attack on an army base. The four suspects are all Australian nationals of Lebanese or Somali descent and were arrested in dawn raids conducted by 400...
Dear Dov Yermiya ..., Uri Avnery
DEAR DOV YERMIYA,
I have received the distressing letter that you recently sent to a limited number of friends. You paint the Israeli reality in dark – but true – colors, and end by cutting your ties with it.
Medvedev and the new European security architecture, Bobo Lo
Opinion remains strongly divided on the merits of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's call for a new European security architecture. Critics dismiss it as a transparent attempt to split the West. More sympathetic analysts view it as a genuine...
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