Obama to appoint troubleshooter for South Asia | By Our Correspondent | WASHINGTON, Dec 3: US President-elect Barack Obama is considering naming veteran diplomat Richard Holbrooke his special envoy to South Asia, officials said. | While his chief ... (photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)Dawn
'Great Game' has become a great madness | Jonathan Power | Arab News | There is a madness about the triangular relationship between India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. They all have resented and often hated each other, made alliances against e... (photo: PIB of India / Photo Division,Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India.)Arab News
US and Russia refuse to sign cluster bomb treaty | America and Russia are two major holdouts in the signing of a landmark agreement banning cluster bombs which both nations have used in the past with lethal effect to kill and maim children in Afghan... (photo: Manoocher Deghati/IRIN)Belfast Telegraph Human RightsPhotosRussiaUSWeapons
French aid worker freed | A FRENCH aid worker kidnapped a month ago in the Afghan capital Kabul was released today, a week after he was seen pleading for his life in a hostage video, officials s... (photo: US Navy / John Scott Rafoss)The Australian AfghanistanAidDefenceFrancePhotos
Asia's Islamism engine | FOLLOWING the terror massacres in Mumbai, Pakistan may now be the single biggest state sponsor of terrorism, beyond even Iran. Yet it has never been listed by the US St... (photo: AP / Anjum Naveed)The Australian DefenceIslamPakistanPhotosTerrorism
Militants die in Afghan unrest | Kabul - A convoy of United States-led troops narrowly escaped a suicide attack on Wednesday as coalition forces killed 13 militants in two separate incidents in Afghani... (photo: AP Photo / Abdullah Noor)Independent online AfghanistanNATOPhotosTalibanUS
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