The new approach targets Karzai’s cabinet members and provincial governors in an effort to more effective reach out to the people of Afghanistan…
- A Softer Approach to Karzai (Washington Post)
… but the US presence protects Afghanistan “from the need to take responsibility for the fight against the Taliban”:
- To Succeed in Afghanistan, We Must Fail (LA Times)
“The fact is that there is an expiry date on a lot of operations and the perception is that the public and donors’ interest in Iraq has expired at a particularly critical time… But people should not think that the refugee situation has finished”:
Critical to US strategy to defeat the Taliban, Pakistanis increasingly look at their own politicians with growing skepticism:
Failing to achieve a compromise over Iran’s nuclear program:
As long as the peace process remained stalled, Israel will continue to have authority over water use, essentially “controlling the economy and development”:
“Mashhadani has long been a controversial figure, described by some in Fadhil as a protector, others as a brutal extortionist who buried victims alive”:
- Iraq Sentences Sunni Leader to Death (NY Times)
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