Defusing Tension in the Middle East

At their board meeting in Vienna next week, the directors of the International Atomic Energy Agency will consider whether a scenario that has long haunted Western capitals has now become an unmistakable reality – the pursuit by the mullah’s regime in Iran of a nuclear warhead that would radically alter the balance of power in … Continue reading “Defusing Tension in the Middle East”

Journalist Group: Latest Killings of Media Workers Fit Pattern

U.S. soldiers’ negligence appears to be the cause of Monday’s killings of two Iraqi media workers in the city of Samara north of Baghdad, said an official from the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on Tuesday. The organization had not completed its probe of the killings of Al-Iraqiya correspondent Asaad Kadhim and driver Hussein Saleh, … Continue reading “Journalist Group: Latest Killings of Media Workers Fit Pattern”

Wolfowitz: We will Completely Remove Kurdish Group From Northern Iraq

Turkish Daily News ANKARA – U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz made important gestures to Turkey on Thursday in an interview with private CNN- Turk TV channel, soothing Turkish fears over PKK existence and Iraqi Kurdish leader’s ethnicity-based federation claims in Iraq. Paul Wolfowitz responded to questions from Mehmet Ali Birand and Cengiz Candar … Continue reading “Wolfowitz: We will Completely Remove Kurdish Group From Northern Iraq”