The United States' plan to provide its Arab allies and Israel with military aid, announced on 31 July 2007, is large-scale by any standards. It includes the provision of
The current media and political attention in Britain is focusing on two main issues. The first is the large-scale flooding across extensive areas of England west of London, which some
Three developments this week involving leading protagonists of the "war on terror" offer important signals of the state of play in key areas of conflict. First, a United
The Iraq war has tumbled to the front of the Washington agenda in an unexpected and intense manner. The publication of an interim report on 12 July 2007 assessing the
The deaths of six Canadian soldiers and their translator in a roadside bomb attack in Kandahar province on 4 July 2007 will further fuel the controversy in Canada over the
It is reported that coalition air-strikes in Helmand province, Afghanistan on 30 June 2007 may have killed between fifty and eighty civilians. This tally - whose exact number is yet
Two towns are currently taking shape, more or less at the opposite ends of Africa, although one is just into Asia. About as far south as you can go, and
The violence in Iraq and a renewed call for attacks on Iran continues to take most of the space in the western media's coverage of George W Bush&
A report, Policy Recommendations for the incoming Prime Minister, from the South Waziristan Institute of Strategic Hermeneutics (SWISH) for the International Security Working Group of the Transition Team, 11 Downing
The United States surge in troop numbers in Iraq is now into its fourth month and thus three-quarters complete, yet the country's military leaders caution that there will
On 30 April 2007, five people were jailed and two acquitted at the Old Bailey in London on charges relating to conspiracy to cause explosions. This ended what had become
The build-up of United States forces in Iraq as part of the "surge" is now past its halfway point, with three of the five additional combat brigades deployed,
