| Mon, 8 Feb 2010  Jack Straw agrees to check records of secret calls to US over Iraq
| Secret telephone calls between Jack Straw and Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State in the months before the war against Iraq, became the focus yesterday of the official inquiry into Britain's decision to join the invasion. | Mr Straw, the former Foreign Secretary, ... | NATO: Afghans To Play Big Role In Offensive
CAMP SHORABAK, Afghanistan -- Thousands of Afghan soldiers and police will join U.S. and NATO troops in an upcoming offensive in southern Afghanistan, playing their biggest role in any joint operation of the Afghan war. | The pending attack on the Taliban-held town of M... | Paramilitary groups decommission weapons
| The British and Irish governments last night welcomed news that all paramilitary groups on ceasefire in Northern Ireland have now decommissioned their weapons. | Three groups announced they had disarmed, with the moves coming just 24 hours ahead of an effective deadli... | Nato's show of force is also about winning hearts and minds
| Generals repeatedly broadcast that fierce fighting lies ahead and warn that there will be inevitable casualties. The biggest offensive since Suez, or Vietnam, or Iraq - depending on which account one accepts - is about to unfold. Seldom has a military operation receiv... | Sri Lankan general who stood for power arrested
| Government troops arrested Sri Lanka's defeated election candidate, former army chief Sarath Fonseka, yesterday amid allegations that he had plotted to carry out a military coup. | Scores of soldiers last night surrounded the office of General Fonseka, where he was me... | Leading article: The first real test of the new strategy in Afghanistan
| Operation Moshtarak, which means "together" in the Dari language, is poised to begin. There is more than usual significance in the name. Nato commanders have been at pains to make it clear that Afghan forces, alongside Western troops, will play a prominent role in the... | Fonseka arrest could be poll issue
| B. Muralidhar Reddy | COLOMBO: With the dissolution of the Sri Lankan Parliament expected on Tuesday and the general election scheduled for the first half of April, the arrest of the former Army Chief and consensus Opposition presidential candidate, General Sarath Fon... | 17 Army men killed in avalanches
| Shujaat Bukhari | JAMMU: Seventeen Army men, including an officer, were killed in avalanches near Gulmarg early on Monday. | Out of the 400 men undergoing training at a high altitude warfare camp in Khilanmarg area, 80 were trapped and most of them rescued, a defence ... | 'Dindigul' Pandi killed in encounter
| Special Correspondent | The pistol used by him and an unexploded bomb have been seized | GUNNED DOWN: Commissioner of Police T. Rajendran inspecting the scene of encounter in Chennai on Monday. | CHENNAI: Pandi alias 'Dindigul' Pandi alias 'Madras' Pandi (42), alleged... | Updated at
| Tuesday, February 09, 2010 | Second F-22P frigate inducted into Pak Navy | By Azeem Samar | KARACHI: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday said Pakistan does not want to be engaged in an arms race with any country. | Speaking as chief guest at the induction... | |
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