Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 708
U.S.-IRAQ: Hawks Fret Over U.S. Withdrawal
- Inter Press Service
Eclipsed by the war in Afghanistan, growing tensions between Israel and its neighbours, and the continuing reverberations of the so-called 'Arab Spring', Iraq is inching back into the news here as a debate over the future of U.S. military forces there gathers steam.
Kabul Attack Continues Taliban Control of War Narrative
- Inter Press Service
Gen. David Petraeus wrote in his 2006 counterinsurgency manual that the U.S. command headquarters should establish a 'narrative' for the counterinsurgency war — a simple storyline that provides a framework for understanding events, both for the population of the country in question and for international audiences.
NATO-Led Forces Secure Kabul After Attacks
- Inter Press Service
Afghan and NATO forces have ended their assault on Taliban fighters, 20 hours after the group launched coordinated attacks in Kabul, targeting NATO's headquarters, the U.S. embassy and the Afghan intelligence agency.
BURMA: ‘Civilian’ Govt Eases Iron Grip
- Inter Press Service
With Burma’s quasi-civilian government relaxing the iron grip on power maintained for half-a century by military juntas, the big question is: How real is the change?
OP-ED: Did 9/11 Make Peace Passé?
- Inter Press Service
Peace has never been a particularly popular word in Washington, DC. This is, after all, the home of the Pentagon and the major military contractors, not to mention all the think tanks and congressional lapdogs that lie in the king- size family bed with them.
PAKISTAN: 9/11 Legacy - An AK-47 in Every Home
- Inter Press Service
The United States-led war-on terror, unleashed on Afghanistan in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, has utterly destabilised the neighbouring Pashtun-dominated tribal areas of Pakistan and reduced them to a state of utter lawlessness.
Washington Warned Against Lifting Aid Curbs
- Inter Press Service
As a high-ranking Uzbek delegation wound up talks with senior U.S. officials here Wednesday, human rights groups urged the administration of President Barack Obama not to lift seven- year-old restrictions on Washington's aid to Tashkent in exchange for a new agreement on using Uzbek territory to transport 'non-lethal' supplies to and from Afghanistan.
PAKISTAN: Dodging Drones and Bullets to Beat HIV
- Inter Press Service
Having to contend with U.S. army drones and the crossfire between the Taliban and the Pakistani army, the residents of Pakistan’s tribal areas find access to treatment for HIV/AIDS harder than in most other parts of the world.
LIBYA: Jihadists Take Over, As Warned
- Inter Press Service
The official euphoria with which the U.S. and European governments celebrated the fall of the regime of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya has given way to growing concern that many among the new Libyan leadership are radical Muslims with links to al-Qaeda. Revelations are surfacing also of a close collaboration of Western governments with the deposed dictator.
SOMALIA: Armed Militia Grab the Famine Business
- Inter Press Service
Armed groups are withholding aid and preventing Somali famine refugees from leaving camps to ensure the continued supply of food by aid agencies that they are presently selling on the open market.
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