Global Issues
News headlines for “Arms Control”, page 726
Libyan Rebels Feel the Heat of NATO's Swan Song
- Inter Press Service
A week after U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 sanctioned air strikes against the regime of Colonel Muammar el-Gaddafi in Libya, U.S. President Barack Obama made clear that it would not be U.S. planes maintaining the No-Fly Zone (NFZ). Rather, the effort to safeguard Libyan civilians would be led primarily by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
CIA Feared Pakistan Would Alert Bin Laden
- Inter Press Service
U.S. officials were concerned that Pakistan could jeopardise the Osama bin Laden operation and 'might alert the targets', if Islamabad took part in the mission, Leon Panetta, the CIA director, has said.
Osama the Symbol Not So Easy to Vanquish
- Inter Press Service
Far from concluding the war on terror, both Western and Muslim-majority countries - many emerging or still embroiled in months of popular protests — will continue to face a threat from extremist ideology after the United States' decade-long campaign to capture or kill Osama bin Laden has come to an end, most analysts say.
A Fork in the Road of U.S.-Pakistani Ties
- Inter Press Service
The U.S. discovery and killing of Osama bin Laden in a compound some 50 kilometres from Islamabad is a 'defining moment' for a U.S.-Pakistan relationship fraught with duplicity and dashed expectations.
U.S. Refusal of 2001 Taliban Offer Gave bin Laden a Free Pass
- Inter Press Service
When George W. Bush rejected a Taliban offer to have Osama bin Laden tried by a moderate group of Islamic states in mid- October 2001, he gave up the only opportunity the United States would have to end bin Laden's terrorist career for the next nine years.
U.S. Celebrates Controversial Justice
- Inter Press Service
By a few minutes before midnight on May 1, huge jubilant crowds had amassed outside the White House in Washington D.C. and around Ground Zero and Times Square in New York City.
U.S.: Bin Laden's Killing Could Alter Af-Pak, Other Policies
- Inter Press Service
Sunday's killing of al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden by a small, helicopter-borne team of U.S. Navy Seals could result in significant impacts on U.S. relations and strategy both in Pakistan, where the raid was carried out, and neighbouring Afghanistan, where it was launched, according to policy experts here.
SYRIA: Deraa a City Under a Dark Siege
- Inter Press Service
As darkness fell across it, Deraa was a city under siege.
Tanks and troops control all roads in and out. Inside the city, shops are shuttered and nobody dare walk the once bustling market streets, today transformed into the kill zone of rooftop snipers.
COLOMBIA: Displaced Campesinos Want a Say on Land Restitution Bill
- Inter Press Service
The Colombian government has been extolling a bill on Victims and Land Restitution which is being debated in Congress and is receiving extensive media coverage. But the demands of the victims themselves, forcibly displaced campesinos, are falling on deaf ears.
Battle Continues for Libya's Misurata
- Inter Press Service
Libya's opposition fighters are battling Muammar Gaddafi's forces on the country's western border, while fighting continues in the besieged city of Misurata.
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