U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates arrived in Afghanistan on Monday morning on an unannounced visit, as NATO-led coalition forces are pressing an offensive in the nation’s south.
Gates was scheduled to meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan.
Coalition forces are battling Taliban fighters around the town of [...]
Votes were being counted Sunday in key elections in Iraq, marred by violence throughout the day.
Polls in Iraq to elect a 325-member parliament closed Sunday evening, capping an electoral process in which militants, intent on disrupting the vote, carried out attacks that killed 38 people.
Despite the risks, voter turnout could reach 55 percent, a senior [...]
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Friday that Iran’s nuclear program poses a danger that extends beyond Israel.
“Iran is not just a challenge for Israel. I believe it is a challenge for the whole world,” Barak said in a speech in Washington. “I can hardly think of a stable world order with a nuclear Iran.”
Barak [...]
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Friday that Iran’s nuclear program poses a danger that extends beyond Israel.
“Iran is not just a challenge for Israel. I believe it is a challenge for the whole world,” Barak said in a speech in Washington. “I can hardly think of a stable world order with a nuclear Iran.”
Barak [...]
Reuters UN considers further sanctions on Iran BBC News Western diplomats are circulating proposals for further UN sanctions to be imposed over the Iran's nuclear programme.
The Guardian The Blair defence: September 11 changed the 'calculus of risk' The Guardian The Chilcot inquiry heard that Tony Blair's “mindset” dramatically changed on 11 September 2001. The attacks had a profound influence on his approach to risks and threats, including now from Iran, a country he named on numerous occasions. …
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The head of Iran’s soccer partnership issued a broadcast explanation and a limb of his personnel resigned with the partnership mistakenly sent a New Year’s salutation to its counterpart in Israel, Iranian officials announced Sunday.
“It was a lofty mix carriage an e-mail to Israel’s football partnership,” Ali Kaffashian, president of the Iran Football Federation, understood [...]
Times Online Reporters attacked in crackdown by Iran militia Times Online IRAN was braced for more violent clashes today as opposition demonstrators planned further mass rallies, which are expected to lead to fresh confrontations between protesters and security forces. Tension was running high at rallies yesterday in which … Riot police clash with protesters in Tehran CNN Police clash with Tehran protesters Aljazeera.net Iranian security forces clash with anti-government protesters in Tehran Washington Post AFP
Telegraph.co.uk Iran students' day: Amateur video BBC News Amateur footage of the national students' day protests across Iran, 7 December 2009. The annual event commemorates the death of three students in Tehran in 1953. Many supporters of Iran's opposition movement turned out to voice their own protests at …
