Tue, 9 Mar 2010  Command role for Aussies in Afghanistan
In this photo released by the Australian Defense Department, an Australian Surveillance Reconnaissance Vehicle (SRV) patrols outside the perimeter of a forward operating base in Afghanistan Sept. 17, 2005. An elite Australian commando was injured and an Afghani soldier killed when their patrol clashed with insurgents in Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 23, 2005. The clash came less than a month after a group of 190 Australian special forces commandos began arriving in Afghanistan to bolster international efforts to restore law and order amid an upsurge in violence blamed on the al-Qaida terror network and supporters of the ousted Taliban regi...
Afghanistan Australia Defence Photos US |  Gates Visits Former Taliban Village
| NOW ZAD, Afghanistan — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates took a stroll on Tuesday through a village market in this former Taliban sanctuary in Helmand Province, but the lone street of shops was so sleepy that it looked as if everyone had been told to stay home. ... | Yemen offers talks with separatists as unrest flares
| DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemen, under international pressure to quiet domestic unrest and focus its sights on al Qaeda, has offered to hold talks with southern separatists and hear their grievances, state media said on Tuesday. | The move by President Ali Abdullah Saleh foll... | Barak: Israel will hold all of Lebanon responsible for any Hizbullah attack
| By Patrick Galey | Daily Star staff | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | - Powered by | BEIRUT: Israel will not launch an assault on southern Lebanon but will retaliate indiscriminately should it be provoked, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Tuesday. | Addressing ... | Sleiman calls for 'uniting national defense capabilities'
| President asks Dialogue participants, Army to put forward proposals | By Elias Sakr | Daily Star staff | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | - Powered by | BEIRUT: The National Dialogue committee agreed Tuesday to continue discussions over a defense strategy away from politic... | Talks on Hizbullah's weapons have little chance of success - analysts
| ‘you have two diametrically opposed views’ between rival camps | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | - Powered by | Rana Moussaoui | Agence France Presse | BEIRUT: Talks between Lebanon’s rival political parties focused on Hizbullah’s weapons have little chanc... | Defense begins with state-building
| Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | - Powered by | Editorial | Despite the obvious canyon separating the perspectives of the March 14 and March 8 political camps regarding their versions of Lebanon’s defense strategy, members of both factions would almost certainly agre... | US mediation may just be a con game
| By Rami G. Khouri | Commentary by | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | - Powered by | Watching the policy of the United States in the Middle East as I do these days from Boston, and seeing the deep and persistent tilt toward Israel, it is hard to see any breakthrough in the ... | Death by a thousand cuts
| The coroner was unequivocal. The last four soldiers to be blown up in a Snatch Land Rover in Afghanistan were unlawfully killed. They should not have died, and did so because they were inadequately equipped. By now, this must surprise nobody. It certainly would not ha... | Israel wants direct talks with Palestine
| Israel has asked United Nations Secretary-General Chief Ban Ki-moon to persuade Palestinians to engage in “direct dialogue” with it so that the peace talks can be resumed. | “Israel would like to resume the negotiations directly, immediately,” Israel’s Vice Prime Mini... | TIMELINE - Ups and downs of Northern Ireland peace process
| REUTERS - The Northern Ireland Assembly on Tuesday voted in favour of taking control of its own police and justice system. | The vote follows on from an agreement to give Belfast its first justice minister by April 12, which was agreed last month after lengthy talks b... | |
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