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AFGHANISTAN: Promise and pitfalls in new militia plan
If successful, this new programme to establish community defence forces across Afghanistan's...
AfghanistanAFGHANISTAN: Taliban strengths can be emulated
Foreign ministers from the United States and European nations today backed a draft plan calling...
AfghanistanEUROPE: London and Paris will maintain nuclear posture
The Obama administration hopes to reduce the salience of nuclear weapons in US defence policy,...
EU/AFGHANISTAN: New strategy poses short-term risks
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will defend the Afghanistan mission in parliament on April 22....
EuUS/CEE: Elites embrace Obama's international approach
Domestically, post-Atlanticism marks the completion of overdue elite turnover in CEE: idealistic...
United StatesAFGHANISTAN: Drug pressures may divide Taliban
Pakistani intelligence officials are interrogating Taliban second-in-command Mullah Abdul Ghani...
AfghanistanRUSSIA/CEE: Rhetoric eases but long-term aim remains
Tiraspol's February 15 offer to Moscow to base missiles in Transnistria was initially welcomed...
RussiaAFGHANISTAN: Campaign concept is at stake in Helmand
US and UK forces are about to launch an operation against Taliban fighters in Marjah, central...
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