The past week has seen a pronounced upturn in violence in Afghanistan, although much of it has been between rival warlord factions rather than Taliban militia engaging with United States
Although the United States continues to face major difficulties in Iraq, the Bush administrations attitude to the proliferation of nuclear weapons remains firm: if it considers a country to
The two most recent articles in this series have concentrated on Iraq and it might therefore seem that yet another piece of analysis is not necessary. It is true that
Discussions with foreign leaders about the future of Iraq held this week in Washington and at the United Nations failed to deliver an outcome in line with the requirements of
More US soldiers are being killed in Iraq and many more Iraqis are dying in exchanges of fire. On both sides the injuries mount, so much so that few incidents
When this series of columns on openDemocracy started, less than one month after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the George W. Bush
When Uday and Qusay Hussein were killed on 22 July, there was an assumption that the old regimes influence in Iraq was at last nearing its end, and that
The pattern of violence and killing in Afghanistan, noted in last weeks column in this series, has continued. Four government soldiers were killed in an incident on Friday 22
The past week in Iraq has been the worst for the United States since its occupation of the country began four months ago. In addition to the many, now routine,
Western Europe in July and August 2003 has experienced some of the highest temperatures ever recorded. Records have been broken in Germany, France, Britain, and Croatia. Portugal has experienced major
The US Attorney General, John Ashcroft, delivered a warning on 3 August that al-Qaida was still a threat to the United States. This followed the broadcast of a tape,
Nearly four months after the fall of Baghdad, intensive searching across Iraq has failed to uncover any evidence of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). More surprisingly, there has been virtually
