The spreading effects of the global economic recession are making the hopes of reaching even the modest Millennium Development Goals (MDG) by the target date of 2015 recede even further.
The turmoil in Pakistan continues, as the authorities seem unable reverse the momentum that has allowed groups associated with the Taliban to expand their power in the northwest of the
The British government has in 2008-09 reacted with notable vigour to a series of non-violent public actions and peaceful demonstrations over climate change. The character of the policing
The phrase "war on terror" might have been quietly dropped from the United States's military lexicon - to be replaced (according to a memo to Pentagon staff)
A report from the South Waziristan Institute of Strategic Hermeneutics to the al-Qaida Strategic Planning Cell (SPC) on the progress of the campaign.
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The combination of a revised United States strategy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan, announced by President Barack Obama on 26 March 2009, and an international conference on Afghanistan in The Hague
The British government published a new version of its national counter-terrorism strategy on 24 March 2009. The 176-page document - Pursue, Prevent, Protect, Prepare: The United Kingdom's
The Iraq war was launched six years ago, with an intensive aerial assault on key installations of Saddam Hussein's regime on 19-20 March 2003. Almost from the
Barack Obama's political inheritance is one of the most difficult ever faced by a new United States president. But if the agenda of major policy challenges - short-term
The future of the United States's global "war on terror" was a constant, if usually background, drumbeat throughout the long presidential-election campaign in 2007-08.
The war in Afghanistan is reaching a pivotal moment. A range of diplomats, politicians and military strategists from dozens of countries is now paying the conflict the intense and concentrated
The United States decision in the closing months of 2008 to send an additional 3,000 troops to Afghanistan was largely in response to an escalation in Taliban activity that
