Turmoil could thwart Iranian ambitions | THE long-term strategic consequences of the roiling revolt of the Iranian street against the mullahs is impossible to know. | But it certainly weakens the regime of President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad and... (photo: AP / Itsuo Inouye) The Australian
US Marines to 'drink lots of tea' By Ali Gharib | WASHINGTON - After months of planning and putting pieces in order, aspects of the new United States strategy in Afghanistan are beginning to be concretely implemented - including a sur... (photo: AP / Rafiq Maqbool) Asia Times
The U.S. in Iraq: An audit of the pain | By Linda J. Bilmes And Joseph Stiglitz | Special To The Los Angeles TimesUpdated: 07/03/2009 06:37:21 AM MDT | Tuesday, the U.S. "stood down" in Iraq, finalizing the pullout of 140,000 troops f... (photo: US DoD)The Salt Lake Tribune IraqPhotosTerrorismUnited StatesWar
Total, CNPC Consider Venezuela Oil Block Bids By SIMON HALL | BEIJING -- France's Total SA and state oil giant China National Petroleum Corp. now plan to bid for two oil large blocks being auctioned in Venezuela, instead of one they'd previously ... (photo: ap / Greg Baker)Wall Street Journal ChinaPetroleumPhotosVenezuelaWorld
Russia to allow US weapon shipments to Afghanistan | The Associated Press | MOSCOW - A Kremlin aide says Russia will allow the U.S. to ship weapons across its territory to Afghanistan. | President Dmitry Medvedev's foreig... (photo: AP / RIA Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)Philadelphia Daily News AfghanistanMinisterMoscowPhotosRussia
'We have to sit down with them...' | By Andrew Heavens | Khartoum - Darfur rebels signed an accord with one of Sudan's main opposition parties in Cairo on Wednesday, agreeing to push for a new transitional... (photo: (AP Photo/Alfred de Montesquiou) / )Independent online DarfurPhotosPoliticsRebelsSudan
