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The war in Chechnya is over. The Kremlin will sign a decree on March 31 that would end the so-called ‘anti-terrorist operation’ in the area that began in October 1999 with the Russian incursion into Chechnya. Russia said it only wanted to neutralize the bandits that were holed up in Chechnya’s mountains. Kremlin justified the war as a campaign [...]

When the number of US troops in Iraq would have been reduced according to the agreement signed between the governments of both countries, Iraq will need all the help it can get to pacify itself and implement the agreements between the various tribal groups and religious and political factions. In this light, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki calls [...]

According to US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Barack Obama has decided to comply with the timetable for troop withdrawal from Iraq as was previously agreed upon by George Bush and the Iraqi government. This is much to the pleasure of Republican leaders, starting with Senator John McCain, and the discontent of those who are now confused with Obama’s [...]

President Ahmadinejad of Iran has demanded an apology from US president Barack Obama for the “crimes” committed by George W. Bush against the Iranian people. Obama seems to be caught between two controversial names that noisily figured in the international political scene in 2008. Must Obama be expected to clean up the tracks of his swaggering [...]