December 30, 2011
Rarely in US history has the end of a war been marked with less fanfare than the withdrawal of the last troops from Iraq in time for Christmas. Indeed, you could almost be forgiven for failing to notice it at all, so arbitrary does the timing seem. US interests in Iraq will be no [...]
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December 29, 2011
Rarely in US history has the end of a war been marked with less fanfare than the withdrawal of the last troops from Iraq in time for Christmas. Indeed, you could almost be forgiven for failing to notice it at all, so arbitrary does the timing seem. US interests in Iraq will be no [...]
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August 16, 2011
A woman gestures as she listens to a pro-Gaddafi rally in Green Square, Tripoli, August 15, 2011. Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi fired a Scud missile for the first time in the country’s civil war, a US defense official said, after rebel advances left the Libyan leader isolated in his capital. Rebels fighting to end [...]
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August 3, 2011
(L to R) Manuel Pop and Reyes Collin two of four soldiers found guilty of the extra-judicial execution of 201 farmers in 1982, wait in court during their trial, in Guatemala City, on July 25, 2011. A Guatemalan court sentenced four former military officers to 12,060 years in prison each for the slaughter of more [...]
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August 2, 2011
Somali refugees fetch water at a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya on July 31, 2011. The head of the African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka, blamed the famine in Africa’s Horn of Africa region on climate change and "our collective failure to end the Somali civil war." "While this is a tragedy triggered by the worst [...]
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April 23, 2009
With a large number of civilians fleeing from Tamil Tiger rebels’ territory to government held areas and the Army entering the so-called no fire zone (NFZ) in the north, Sri Lanka’s long drawn-out civil war is coming to a conclusion, said the military and analysts. Military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara (2nd L) points to a [...]
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