Source: The New York Times
For more than five months the United States has been trying to orchestrate a political transition in Pakistan that would manage to somehow keep Gen. Pervez Musharraf in power without making a mockery of President Bush's promotion of democracy in the Muslim world.
Source: Turkishdailynews
While the mission of the diplomatic roundtable that begins today in Istanbul is set to envision a future Iraq, the host Turkey plans to pressure both that country and the United States to at last take action against the lairs of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) amid gr …
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Desiree's bloody hands are the bloody hands of millions of Americans who bear the pain of knowing, like the "good Germans" before them, that they, too, are held accountable for the deeds their leaders do.
Source: The New York Times
"This is a warning shot across the bow, not that the U.S. is going to invade Iran, but that Iran has pushed the level of escalation, particularly inside Iraq, to unacceptable levels," said Anthony H.
Source: Reuters
Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday described Iran as an obstacle to peace in the Middle East and said the world could not stand by and allow it to develop a nuclear weapon.
Source: BBC News
"Although it respects Iraq's territorial integrity, Turkey will not tolerate that terrorism be aided and abetted and will not be afraid to pay, whatever the price may be, to protect its rights, its indivisible unity and its citizens," said a statement issued after the emergency m …
Source: www.counterpunch.com
The international outcry over the recent Blackwater shootings forced the world to closely examine and appreciate the complex reality of the United States government's overdependence on private military contractors operating in Iraq.
Source: New Yorker
What lies ahead in the escalating confrontation with Iran?
Source: AL JAZEERA
The Palestinian president has accused Israel of blocking the Middle East peace process, saying Israeli aggression and plans to build another settlement in Jerusalem were obstacles to peace.
Source: contentions
There is an unmistakable tinge of insanity creeping into the U.S. effort to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
About a month ago, we were driving on highway 60 in Jerusalem towards Pisgat Ze'ev, and we saw in the other direction that there were absolutely no cars coming from the other direction.
Source: Yahoo! News
The Russian government under Vladimir Putin has amassed so much central authority that the power-grab may undermine Moscow's commitment to democracy, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday.
Source: belfasttelegraph.co.uk
One measure of the success of the US-sponsored meeting will be how far the sides move beforehand toward resolving key areas of dispute, like final borders, sovereignty over disputed Jerusalem and a solution for Palestinians who lost their homes in the war that followed Israel's 1 …
Source: The L.A. Times
Condie is in Russia. I do hope she remembers to mention that Russia is supplying Burma with weapons.
Source: The New York Times
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 — A sharp debate is under way in the Bush administration about the significance of the Israeli intelligence that led to last month's Israeli strike inside Syria, according to current and former American government officials.
Source: Christian Science Monitor
WASHINGTON - Americans are hearing much less from the Bush administration about democracy for the Middle East than they did a year ago.
Source: The New York Times
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told his Cabinet on Sunday that an upcoming U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace conference would not replace direct negotiations with the Palestinians.
Source: CNN
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday told delegates to a global climate change conference that countries around the world must work together to combat climate change, much as they cooperate against terror and the spread of disease.
Source: Raw Story
The US State Department is preventing a House committee from disclosing information that could "embarrass" Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki regarding an investigation of alleged corruption within his government, a lawmaker alleges in a letter to Secretary of State Condoleeza …
Source: Reuters
A leading Democratic lawmaker on Tuesday accused Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of interfering in congressional inquiries into corruption in Iraq's government and the activities of U.S. security firm Blackwater.
Source: On The Hill
Pope Benedict XVI refused to meet US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in August, saying he was on holiday, an Italian newspaper reported Wednesday. Rice "made it known to the Vatican that she absolutely had to meet the pope" to boost her diplomatic credibility.
Source: Corriere.it
The latest request was made during the summer. The US secretary of state Condoleeza Rice indicated to the Vatican that she urgently needed to meet Benedict XVI.
Source: Raw Story
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice co-owned a home and shared a line of credit with another woman, according to Washington Post diplomatic correspondent Glenn Kessler, who reveals the information in his new book, The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Lega …
Source: The New York Times
Condoleezza Rice's gloss is diminishing with a stream of exposés and tell-all books about the Bush administration.
Source: Reuters
A U.S.-sponsored international conference on Israeli-Palestinian peace is doomed to fail because it will serve only Israel's interests, Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal said in a CNN interview broadcast on Monday.