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Ivory Coast Rebels Respond to Demands for Disarmament
Ivory Coast’s former rebels say they will disarm one month before presidential elections, in accordance with the country’s peace agreements. Ivory Coast’s ruling party says the delay in rebel disarmament is holding up the organization of a presidential poll that has been postponed eight times since civil war cut the country in half in 2002. [...]
Pentagon concerned over Blackwater’s work in Afghanistan
Washington: US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is concerned about possible misconduct in Afghanistan by the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater and has promised to review the issue, the Pentagon said Friday. Gates made the pledge to lawmakers after receiving a letter from Carl Levin, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, who [...]
Costs of War: Renting Victory
The decision last week by US Defense Secretary Robert Gates to approve $150 million in military aid to Yemen is the latest effort to shore up the government there as a war on terror ally. But if victory could be bought, the war would have been over long ago, Shaun Waterman writes for ISN Security [...]
Afghan campaign will be tough, Says Petraeus
WASHINGTON: With U.S. forces entering the second week of a 12- to 18-month campaign in Afghanistan, the general in charge of U.S. forces in the region acknowledged yesterday that the way ahead will be tough. “I have repeatedly said that these types of efforts are hard, and they’re hard all the time,” Gen. David H. [...]
Khartoum, Darfur rebels sign ceasefire accord
DOHA: Sudan and Darfur’s main rebel group signed a ceasefire agreement and a framework accord for a final peace deal on Tuesday, which will still need to be backed by other armed factions. Justice and Equality Movement leader Khalil Ibrahim said he and Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir signed the accord, which is due to take [...]
UK commander: Afghan offensive could take weeks
MARJAH, Afghanistan: A senior British commander has warned it could take weeks to wrest control of the Afghan town of Marjah because of determined Taliban resistance, as NATO said four more soldiers had been killed in the operation. The commander of NATO forces in southern Afghanistan, Major General Nick Carter, cautioned against “triumphalism” in Marjah, [...]
Factors Contributing to Iraq’s Security After US Forces Withdraw
As it withdraws troops from Iraq, the United States must work not only to maintain security in that nation, but also focus on how the action will impact other regional interests, according to a study issued today by the RAND Corporation. The study presents an analytical framework for policymakers to examine the shifting motivations and [...]
SKorea deploys Firefinder radar after NKorea barrage
Seoul: South Korea said Friday it had deployed advanced weapons-tracking radar systems on islands near its disputed Yellow Sea border with North Korea following last week’s artillery barrages by the North. Defence Minister Kim Tae-Young told lawmakers the AN/TPQ-36 Firefinder systems had been set up on Baengnyeong and Yeonpyeong islands. “A few days ago, deployment [...]
US, Pakistani officials believe Mehsud is dead
WASHINGTON: Pakistani and US officials are increasingly convinced that the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, who was behind the suicide attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan in December, had died from wounds sustained in a drone strike, The New York Times reported. The newspaper said the Pakistani military, which mounted a major [...]
