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Iran sanctions likely to rise as election issue Tehran dismisses latest UN offer on nuclear program, prolonging the debate over more sanctions.

Washington Post A Ragtag Pursuit of the Taliban U.S. Effort to Train Afghans as Counterinsurgency Force Is Far From Finished

Iran Seeks Details on Nuclear Offer Country says it will respond to package offered for suspension of its uranium-enrichment program when it gets a detailed explanation of offer, which may draw out talks. Western Countries Say That Tehran's Response Is Evasive

Iraq Banks Billions in Surpluses, GAO Says Nation's Oil Revenue Rising Sharply While U.S. Funds Reconstruction Projects

Time Why Iran Won't Budge on Nukes

Rebuilding the world economy, Kemal Derviş

Guardian Dangerous delaying tactics Editorial: Exact terms of Iran's reply to package of incentives it was offered to stop enriching uranium are not known

Iran buys time on nuclear demands Sanctions include discouraging government export credits to finance trade with Iran, and cargo inspection

Mahdi army told to lay down arms Militia group behind much of the violence since 2003 will disarm and become political organisation

Robert Fox v Simon Tisdall

Take Two Iraq: Has the troop surge worked?

The lies of Hiroshima live on, props in the war crimes of the 20th century John Pilger: The 1945 attack was murder on an epic scale. In its victims' names, we must not allow a nuclear repeat in the Middle East

“Nationalism and the nation itself,” Robert Kagan writes, “far from being weakened by globalization, have now returned with a vengeance”... more»

Obama leads McCain nationally in AP-Ipsos poll

Amir Taheri The virtues of strategic patience - GulfNews

Muddled Israeli Political Picture - Council on Foreign Relations

Zardari, Sharif Agree to Impeach Musharraf

Time Jihad in China's Far West

The Times Fighting Talk

Negotiating deals is a legitimate part of any military strategy. But hey must be made at the right time and with the right people

General's killing severs Hezbollah link Brigadier General Mohammed Suleiman was said to have been the liaison officer between the Assad regime and Hezbollah

White House 'buried Iraq WMD intelligence' Tony Blair passed on British intelligence before Iraq invasion that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction

Business Week, a look at why India will beat China.

Abdul-Ahad: Baghdad is "Calmer" Because they Made it into Prison Cells

Anthrax Deaths Turned Attention Toward Iraq

Financial Times Welcome to a world of diminished expectations

The ancient Greeks knew hubris to be one sin the gods will punish. When the British prime minister announced ‘the end of boom and bust’, Jove must have checked his thunderbolts, writes Willem Buiter

Arrests in Syria follow murder of general Authorities act after the assassination of Mohammed Suleiman, a senior military adviser to the president, whose death rekindles talk of splits in Damascus’s ruling circle

Big six to discuss next Iran move

Senior officials from six big powers will hold a conference call today to discuss Iran's response to a recent initiative aimed at negotiating an end to the country's...

Blow to Ahmadi-Nejad as moderates head economy and interior ministries

The Big Freeze Part 3 – The economy Central banks are pursuing policies that make little sense in aggregate

Politics and petrol Forget Iraq, forget global warming. The soaring price of oil, and the cost of filling a car with petrol, has concentrated the minds of US voters

Obama running mate could come from ‘left field’ A straw poll of Barack Obama staff members and Democrats close to the campaign suggests that five or six names recur on the Illinois senator’s short list for a running mate

The lost cause of China’s Uighurs

Xinjiang is more like Tibet than a terrorist problem. But if Beijing continues its bulldozer approach to minorities, it could incite jihadism

New York Times As Iraq Surplus Rises, Little Goes Into Rebuilding Soaring oil prices will leave the Iraqi government with a budget surplus of as much as $79 billion by year’s end, according to a new report.

Return to a Regional Conference on Mideast Peace By: Carlo Strenger | The Daily Star The last 15 years have shown that neither Israel nor the Palestinians can reach peace on their own, each for complex internal and external reasons. My claim is that only a permanent, internationally sponsored regional peace conference can unfreeze the deadlock

Iran is part of the solution in Iraq, not the problem By Reza Molavi

Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish: The Iranian Bomb — I suggested that the world could live with it …

Al Awsat The Murder of Syria's Top Security Adviser

Behind the Scenes of Al-Assad's Visit to Iran

Ha’aretz Melman ANALYSIS / Iran's real nuclear tactic is to keep buying time

ANALYSIS / This time around, Hezbollah aims higher Israeli overflights of its northern neighbor now threaten to become main point of Israel-Hezbollah friction.

Wall Street Journal Moqtada Packs It In The good news keeps coming in Iraq.

The Fragmented Future of World Trade - Alexander Neubacher, Der Spiegel

Forging the missing case for war In further chronicles of Bush government deceit, author Ron Suskind drops a bombshell: The White House ordered the CIA to fake a letter linking Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida.
By Louis Bayard

• 'Peter Rodman's Life of Service' by Henry Kissinger, Washington Post

Foreign Policy Pentagon Funding? Bring It On.

H 2 WSJ Muslim Land Joins Ranks of Tigers From tourism and tomato growing to car making, Turkey has prospered far more under an Islam-tinged government than it did under some previous, ardently secular administrations more in tune with the often decidedly un-Islamic ways of many Turkish businesspeople.

Debka Ankara played key role in validating Damascus-Tehran pact and marketing a nuclear Iran

Inside the Improbable Turkey-Iran Partnership Harvard Political Review

Ahmedinecad'ın ziyareti iyi yönetilirse herkes kazançlı çıkar

'Düğmeye basıyoruz'

Guardian Turkey plays down Ahmadinejad snub

Rebuilding the world economy, Kemal Derviş

La Turquie regarde vers l’Europe
Monde Diplomatique

Araplar Türkiye’nin değerini bilmeli MUSTAFA EL FAKİ

Alirıza: 'Dava Sonrası AK Parti Hükmeti'

Başbuğ atamasının dünyadaki yankıları

EDM BASBUG APPOINTED CHIEF OF THE TGS

Mete Çubukçu: Kerkük’te yanıtı bilinmeyen soru