As Tony Blair prepares for his meeting with George Bush, the war in Afghanistan remains unresolved and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict worsens. Even so, the Bush administration remains intent on
Operation Anaconda was fought over two weeks in mountains near the Afghan town of Gardez. The effects of the battle are fundamentally disputed between the Pentagon and Islamic news agencies.
What has surprised most people is the apparent US willingness to consider using nuclear weapons first, and using them on a small scale.
In this update, I will deal with the tremendous escalation of the Israel/Palestine conflict, and the regrouping of the Taliban. A number of recent aspects of both the Middle
The situation in Afghanistan is becoming steadily more problematic. Regional warlords compete for power and influence, and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) is very much limited to Kabul. Hamid
In the past few days there has been a marked increase in the rhetoric about destroying the Saddam Hussein regime. It is coming from sources close to the heart of
This series of articles has argued in recent weeks that the nature of the United States’s bombing campaign will inevitably have caused substantial civilian casualties, and that media reporting
As US military action continues in Afghanistan, the interim head of state, Mr Karzai, pleads with western states to extend the security assistance force to more of the country. The
Within Afghanistan the war continues, with further bombing and a wide range of actions by US special forces. Several thousand US troops are now in Afghanistan itself, together with 1,
In the immediate aftermath of 11 September, there was a widespread belief that the US would realise that multilateral cooperation would be the only way to respond to the atrocities.
Coverage of the conflict in Afghanistan is now limited to relatively brief reports in the inside pages of more substantial newspapers, though the specialist defence press remains full of it.
The "war on terror" is best seen in the context of the geopolitics of oil, especially since the 1970s. In particular, the USs oil dependency and its
