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The violence across Baghdad and in Iraq as a whole has declined dramatically over the past few months. But sectarian tensions remain high with Shias and Sunnis living in respective separated walled neighbourhoods. Although the surge in US troop numbers...

Turkish threats of invading northern Iraq have united the region's predominantly Kurdish population. Kurdish political complexities have fallen into oblivion amidst tough military rhetoric from Ankara. The elite Kurdish Peshmerga forces have warned...

President Bush's rivals and the American general public are pressing the current government to provide a fixed time-table for US troop withdrawal from Iraq. So its no surprise that the US forces, under the direction of their government, have bought some..

Russian president Vladimir Putin, in recent times, has taken a cold war like attitude towards the Americans. That trend continued, when in an annual live televised question-answer session with the Russian public, the former KGB strongman heavily...

Russia has never been a supporter of the war in Iraq. President Vladimir Putin has always fostered an apprehensible and skeptical attitude towards the West, especially the US and Britain, and the outspoken Bush administration critic never flinches to..

For most of the past 40 years, the Middle East has been a volatile region engulfing not only the neighboring countries into one coflict or another but also drawing powers from far-off lands into the fight, most of whom are drawn in by either the...

Iraq is still steeped in sectarian violence and millions of Iraqis have left the country already. The military situation in the Middle Eastern nation is growing worse by the moment and all combative efforts by the US to counter the insurgency of..

Finally the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq is gathering momentum. Recently appointed British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has never been as great a supporter of the invasion of Iraq as his predecessor Tony Blair was and his announcement to...

Britain was one of the two major countries that leaped into the war against Saddam Hussein in Iraq and it appears that it is becoming the first one to turn its face away after the war-ravaged country. Iraqi refugees fleeing their homeland due to the...

Almost everyone knows that chances of a complete 'victory' for the US in Iraq are next to impossible. There are no easy options. The aim is to get the best deal out of the mess. The president who will do the dirty work is going to face public...