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CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Mar 1, 2007 @ 9:34am neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- An elite team of officers advising the US commander, General David Petraeus, in Baghdad has concluded that they have six months to win the war in Iraq - or face a Vietnam-style collapse in political and public support that could force the military into a.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Jan 8, 2007 @ 9:26am mrmdc

CBS News -- President Bush is expected to deliver his new plan for the war in Iraq as early as Wednesday night to an American public eager for change, but he may face a showdown in Washington over his intentions... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Jun 16, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

BBC News -- Gordon Brown and President George Bush have warned Iran to accept their "offers of partnership" or face tough sanctions and international isolation. The UK prime minister said he wanted to maintain a dialogue with Tehran, but if Iran ignores UN resolut.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue May 20, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- The trial of Tariq Aziz, international face of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime, has resumed, but without the new legal team he demanded three weeks ago. The team of French and Italian lawyers have not been given Iraqi visas and it is unclear who will rep.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Mar 12, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni says leaders of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) should face local justice, rather than trial at The Hague. Three top LRA officials including leader Joseph Kony face prosecution at the International Criminal Cou.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Dec 4, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- A humanitarian organization has issued a report on the rocky predicament of Iraqi refugees in Lebanon, saying authorities in that Middle Eastern nation "arrest Iraqi refugees without valid visas and detain them indefinitely to coerce them to return to Ira.. Read More

CONFLICTS / OPINION Thu Jun 7, 2007 @ 3:41pm neoform

Alter Net -- As more female reporters cover conflict zones, they face the same hurdles as their male counterparts and then some. In the macho world of overseas journalism, those who face sexual abuse often choose to say nothing at all. The photographer was a season.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon May 28, 2007 @ 9:08am neoform

CNN -- The United States told Iran on Monday its support for militias fighting in Iraq needs to cease, said Ryan Crocker, U.S. ambassador to Iraq. Crocker spoke at a news conference after a meeting with Iranian diplomats in Baghdad -- the first public and for.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon May 14, 2007 @ 3:10pm neoform

Washington Post -- Mullah Dadullah was the face of the Taliban movement in Afghanistan as it used suicide bombings, videotaped beheadings and targeted assassinations to escalate its insurgent campaign over the past two years. Dadullah periodically turned up on television.. Read More

CONFLICTS / OPINION Fri Apr 20, 2007 @ 8:31am neoform

Alter Net -- The media took the Bush admin's Iraq claims at face value, but it didn't have to. The marketing of the war in Iraq by the administration has been much examined, but a critical question remains: How and why did the press buy it? The new Bill Moyers Jour.. Read More