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/ 28 September 2011
In 1988, the Soviet army left Afghanistan after a campaign by the Western-backed mujahideen. Since then, many myths have grown up about the country.
Now that the military battle for Libya is all but over, the challenges are enormous.
Nato’s hawks have done a crucial about-turn on Gaddafi’s future and Ramadan provides the perfect opportunity to press for a settlement.
Bloody protests open debate over a more equitable system of government.
What Barack Obama should tell Binyamin Netanyahu in their imminent meeting.
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/ 17 November 2008
Despite recent US policy, Europe’s security is best served by finding shared ground with Moscow.
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/ 8 November 2008
Obama calls it "an amazing journey", but he would be the first to admit it began when he was only a toddler.
Now that Barack Obama is almost certain to be the Democratic Party’s nominee, those who want to believe he may change the United States’s foreign policy should turn to his pre-campaign biography. I don’t mean the recent <i>Audacity of Hope</i>, but <i>Dreams From My Father</i>, which he wrote in his early 30s.
Short of his falling out of an SUV speeding the wrong way down Moscow’s traffic-congested roads, there was never any doubt that Dmitry Medvedev would be elected Russia’s next president. The out-going president, Vladimir Putin, picked Medvedev as his successor and no challenger had a chance of beating the Kremlin’s choice.
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/ 29 October 2007
Turkey’s move towards a full-scale invasion of northern Iraq looks more like a crab’s walk than a charging bull. The ruling party of moderate Islamists has many foes to target, and not just the guerrillas of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, the ostensible enemy, argues Jonathan Steele.
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/ 11 December 2006
Diyala is Iraq’s province of death. No one knows how many people die violently here every week. Batches of bodies are dumped by the roadside almost every night. Many go missing, their corpses never found. Unlike Baghdad, where news of murder is widely reported, Diyala is part of Iraq’s invisible war.
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/ 1 February 2003
With as much secrecy as the Pentagon, the United Nations has been busily counting the likely casualty toll of a war on Iraq. While the Pentagon focuses on its troops, the network of UN specialist agencies is trying to estimate what would happen to Iraqis.
Imagine a prime minister who makes his first visit to the world’s fourth largest democracy and refuses to meet the leader of the opposition.
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/ 12 January 2001
According to a UN source, Annan is dissatisfied with the work of a Âparticular Japanese official in another post in the UN, and wants to remove him.