More than five years after the Taliban evacuated Kabul in November 2001, Afghanistan's summer 2006 was marked by a re-emerging insurgency signalled by unexpected and accelerating violence
A week after the publication of the Iraq Study Group (ISG) report on 6 December 2006, it is blindingly obvious that the Bush administration may engage in a small amount
A fifth report from the South Waziristan Institute of Strategic Hermeneutics to the al-Qaida Strategic Planning Cell on the progress of the campaign.
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A shift of vocabulary can be the harbinger of a new understanding. The notable increase in the past week in the use of the term "civil war" to
Afghanistan in 2006 was not supposed to be like this. The period around the fifth anniversary of the Taliban's evacuation of Kabul on 12 November 2001 has been
The new parliamentary session in Britain opened on 15 November 2006 with a raft of proposals from prime minister Tony Blair to counter terrorism. They include tighter immigration controls (including
The resignation of Donald Rumsfeld as United States defence secretary in the aftermath of heavy Republican losses in the mid-term elections on 7 November 2006 is an event whose
There has been little movement on government targets, but the public mood has shifted dramatically.
A frank statement of the seriousness of Britain's predicament in Iraq from the chief-of-staff of the British army, General Richard Dannatt, has precipitated an unusual air
The war in Iraq continues to bring tragedy to Iraq's people and devastation to many American families. But just as there are minimal signs of any serious rethinking
The argument that, after all, Hizbollah's war with Israel was a failure is the product of military-commerial spin.
The Lebanon war of 12 July-14 August 2006
A national-intelligence estimate in Washington leaked on 24 September 2006 reported the considered opinion of a number of United States security agencies that the Iraq war was proving to
