The corridors of power in the nation’s capital are abuzz with the complexities of the situation in Afghanistan. If only we send 40,000 more troops, say the military brass, the U.S. could have some hope of turning the situation around and preventing Afghanistan from becoming a haven for terrorists yet again. Vice President Joe Biden has apparently suggested keeping the number of forces the same but shifting the U.S. mission more toward training the Afghan security forces and conducting Special Forces raids and drone attacks against al-Qaeda.
“Stripping Bare the Body: Politics, Violence, War”: Groundbreaking Journalist Mark Danner on Haiti, the Balkans, Iraq and Torture
Award-winning journalist, writer and professor Mark Danner has just released a new collection of dispatches about Haiti, the Balkans, Iraq and the use of torture in the US war on terror. It’s called Stripping Bare the Body: Politics, Violence, War.
Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's foreign minister, has ordered officials to summon Turkey's ambassador in Israel and lodge a protest over a Turkish television series that Israel says portrays its soldiers murdering Palestinian children.
A British newspaper report alleging 10 French soldiers died in Afghanistan because Italy failed to inform them of a Taliban payoff deal has been strongly denied by both Italy and France.
John Kerry, the US senate's foreign relations committee chairman, has travelled to Afghanistan where he is due to meet the chief US and Nato commander who has recommended a radical change in US strategy there.
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The Dow Jones industrial average has soared past the psychologically important 10,000 mark for the first time in a year.
A court in the western Chinese city of Urumqi has sentenced another six people to death over July's deadly ethnic riots in the city.
