Global Issues
News headlines for “War on Terror”, page 47
POLITICS: U.S. Silent About Taliban Guarantee Offer on al Qaeda
- Inter Press Service
The Barack Obama administration is refusing to acknowledge an offer by the leadership of the Taliban in early December to give 'legal guarantees' that it will not allow Afghanistan to be used for attacks on other countries.
US: Increased Focus and Growing Pressure on Pakistan
- Inter Press Service
While President Barack Obama’s announcement last week that he will 'surge' 30,000 more U.S. troops into Afghanistan has received all of the attention here over the past week, Pakistan appears to be looming larger than ever in Washington’s strategic calculations and concerns.
US: Obama Launches Freedom of Information Initiative
- Inter Press Service
Advocates for greater freedom of information are expressing approval of the Obama administration’s new ‘Open Government Directive’ - but some are sounding cautionary notes that executive agencies are still hiding behind 'national security' to conceal government misconduct.
RIGHTS-TURKEY: Jailing Kudish Children to Undermine Dissent
- Inter Press Service
Turkey is signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, but that does not stop minors in the country's Kurdish dominated eastern and southeastern regions from ending up with stiff jail sentences.
/CORRECTED REPEAT*/POLITICS: Pentagon's War Pitch Belied by Taliban-Qaeda Conflict
- Inter Press Service
U.S. Secretary of Defence Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen argued in Senate Testimony Wednesday that the 30,000-troop increase is necessary to prevent the Taliban from giving new safe havens to al Qaeda terrorists.
POLITICS: Pentagon's War Pitch Belied by Taliban-Qaeda Conflict
- Inter Press Service
U.S. Secretary of Defence Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen argued in Senate Testimony Wednesday that the 30,000-troop increase is necessary to prevent the Taliban from giving new safe havens to al Qaeda terrorists.
POLITICS: Neo-Cons Get Warm and Fuzzy Over 'War President'
- Inter Press Service
U.S. President Barack Obama's plan for a 30,000-troop surge and a troop withdrawal timeline beginning in 18 months has caught criticism from both Democrat and Republican lawmakers.
U.S.: Obama's Afghan Plan has Something for Everyone... to Hate
- Inter Press Service
President Barack Obama's speech Tuesday night at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point laid out his administration's plan to deploy an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan and start a phased withdrawal beginning in 18 months, but the plan has won the White House few supporters in both its own party or across the aisle.
US-AFGHANISTAN: Obama to Surge 30,000 Troops, With Deadline
- Inter Press Service
In a highly anticipated speech Tuesday evening, President Barack Obama announced the dispatch of 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan over the next seven months and said he would begin drawing down the U.S. military presence there 12 months later.
U.S.: Obama Had Rejected His Own Speech's Surge Rationale
- Inter Press Service
President Barack Obama presented a case Tuesday for sending 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan that included both soaring rhetoric and a new emphasis on its necessity for U.S. national security.
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