American bi-partisan congressional delegation engages in diplomatic surge and meets with Syria’s President, Bashar Al-Assad:
- Pelosi Meets With Syrian Leader (Washington Post)
Two month body count by the Washington Post provides gloomy empirical indicator of Iraq’s dangerous security situation…
- Sum of Death Statistics: a Perilous Iraq (Washington Post)
…which helps to explain the challenges US and Iraqi soldiers face when trying to recruit Sunnis in order to diversify the sectarian make up of the army:
- Iraq’s Army Seeks a Few Good Sunnis (Christian Science Monitor)
Caught the middle of a sectarian battle between Zaydi Shi’as on side and Wahhabis and the Yemeni state on the other, Yemeni Jews flee their village:
- Yemeni Jews Face Growing Sectarian Troubles (Christian Science Monitor)
Rather than taking Bush’s hardline approach, Britain uses a seasoned diplomatic method to release its sailors…
- Iranian Prisoner Crisis: It’s Not 1979, But Some Lessons Apply (Christian Science Monitor)
…with successful results:
- Iranians Release British Sailors (BBC News)
Son of Egyptian immigrants living in the American South uses his talent in country music to sing about “unadulterated love, family and religionâ€:
- Backstory: A Country-Western Muslim (Christian Science Monitor)
Freed from the shackles of atheistic communism, Albanian Muslims and Christians witness a revival of faith:
- Albanians Rediscover God, If Not Old-Time Religion (Washington Post)
Guantanamo-style prisons outsourced not in Europe, but Africa:
- U.S. Agents Visit Ethiopian Secret Jails (Associated Press)
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