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The SCO comprises China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Negroponte, therefore, proceeded to underline that in its remaining ...

That could be the thought that comes to mind at first glance of speech made by US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte at the National Endowment for ...

Its sensational role in conceptualizing and orchestrating the "color revolutions" in Ukraine and Georgia was a high-water mark in the organization's history ...

But, why go to the SCO when the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) could still do a first rate job? The SCO comprises China, Russia, Kazakhstan, ...

... of how much it really - these agreements really limited the scope of action of terrorism - of terrorists, extremist elements operating in the area, ...

... "I think that you could fairly say that the United States has accepted the fact that Pakistan has nuclear weapons and I think I would leave it at that. ...

The Bulgarian government continued its high level of cooperation with the United States in preventing acts of terrorism against US citizens in Bulgaria and ...

In November, Austria failed to detain Remzi Kartal, a KGK/PKK leader known to be traveling to Austria who was wanted by Interpol. ...

Cyprus took a clear stand against international terrorism and supported United States counterterrorism e

Bouchentouf confessed to planning attacks against multiple targets including the American Embassy in Luxembourg. On December 19, five of six French former ...

Belgian authorities remained concerned about potential terror activities involving groups from Algeria and North Africa, and have investigated groups such ...

And in July, the Armenian government succeeded in adapting the EU export control list of "dual-use" commodities to its own national control list. ...

The argument that Baghdad must bear more of the burden gained momentum last week when the Pentagon's Special Inspector General for Iraq reconstruction ...

The Badr Organization is the armed wing of the Shi'a Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC), the strongest party in the coalition. ...

Another provision of the same bill would require Iraq's government to pay the salaries and training costs of the predominantly sunni militias, or so-called ...

... public protests and by an increasing number of attacks on US and Iraqi forces

This, in turn, requires an effective disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration strategy and attendant funding. Once backed into a corner by the weight ...

the LRA also established a new safe haven in southeastern Central African Republic (where it is abducting new recruits), complementing its established ...

Over the past two years, Kony has successfully morphed from a rebel/predator in northern Uganda into a genuin

More than a hundred members of civil society, Journalists, religious, and cultural leaders from the North, the LRA and Ugandan government delegations, ...

Kony refused to speak to key leaders trying to broker peace, including chief mediator and Government of Southern Sudan Vice President Riek Machar and UN ...

International leverage must be forged through the development of a credible regional military strategy to apprehend Kony and the other two LRA commanders ...

The 2007 Pew Research Center Global Attitudes survey indicated a marked turn against support for terrorism among Jordanians. Only a fifth of respondents ...

Kuwait was also an active member of the Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force (MENA FATF). Although Kuwait had a Financial Intelligence ...

General al-Hajj had been in charge of operations when Lebanon's army fought Islamic militants from Fatah al-Islam in Nahr el-Barid refugee camp. ...

Five of them, including Fatah al-Islam leader Shaker al-Absi, were tried in absentia. In August, five men were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 20 ...

As of December 2007, Qatar was the only country in the Gulf with an Attorney General (AG) independent of the Ministry of Interior or Ministry of Justice, ...

Although Kuwait had a Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), it did not exercise

The Badr Organization is the armed wing of the Shi'ite Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, the strongest party in the coalition. Both the intra-Shi'ite conflict ...

Jim Lobe's blog on US foreign policy, and particularly the neo-conservative influence in the Bush administration, can be read at ...

This could include requirements that the Iraqi government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki pays substantially more in reconstruction and related costs The ...

Although the House of Representatives appears poised to approve an additional US$163 billion on Thursday for military operations in both Iraq and ...

... most observers believe that Congress will impose unprecede

... for Iraq reconstruction reported that Iraq's oil revenue in 2008 should exceed $70 billion, twice as much as had been forecast just a few months before. ...

The Netherlands deployed over 1700 troops to Afghanistan as part of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). The Dutch led a Provincial ...

Romania has made its airspace, ground Infrastructure, and naval facilities available to US and NATO forces. The Romanian government has established internal ...

Moldova continued to work on implementation of obligations under UNSCR 1373 (and EO 13224, the Terrorism Finance Executive Order) and provisions related to ...

In November, the Bratislava Regional Court approved a Slovak Government request to extradite him to Algeria where he was convicted in absentia to life in ...

In January, Wasem al Delaema, an Iraqi-born Dutch citizen was extradited to the United States for trial on charges of conspiring to attack US troops in Iraq ...

Additionally, it participated in the Nordic Council of Ministers Regional Forum f

The government of Bahrain actively monitored terrorist suspects, but domestic legal constraints at times hampered its ability to detain and prosecute ...

Saudi Arabia suffered two high-profile terrorist incidents: the shooting of four French citizens and the violent murder of a high-ranking Saudi colonel. ...

Prior to Hamas' takeover of Gaza in June, Israeli security experts a

Previously, AQIM's predecessor, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), had preferred to target Algerian government interests and had been more ...

Iraqi government officials continued to strongly condemn terrorists. On September 28, Iraq and Turkey concluded a counterterrorism agreement between its ...

Following an October 7 attack by the KGK/PKK that killed 13 Turkish soldiers in Southern Turkey, Prime Minister Maliki publicly stated that the KGK/PKK was ...

Nor is it clear why large numbers of Iranian-made weapons are turning up in the hands of Shia militiamen, who undermine a government that Iran seeks to ...

Keep your quarrels away from us, says Mr Zebari, an affable Kurd, who has kept his job longer than any other minister since Saddam Hussein was toppled. Iraq ...

Iraq's prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, a Shia, has repeatedly stressed that the military campaign he launched in March, backed by American and British ...

In return, Sadrist militiamen have sent waves of mortars and rockets

In recent weeks fighting has intensified, with Iraqi and American forces fighting together against assorted Shia militias and "criminal gangs" (in the ...

... not so long ago widely dismissed as weak and sectarian, has won rare support from most of the main political parties across the spectrum-Kurdish, ...