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The US government knew from the start that Afghanistan was a lost cause. That is why the Bush regime focused on Iraq. Now its worse fears have been confirmed by the new 'super envoy' to Afghanistan, Lord Ashdown. The UK Telegraph reports Lord Ashdown...

President Bush wants to go out of office next year with a flourish. North Korea and Iraq are two foreign policy achievements he wants. He also desires Cuba to be another jewel in his crown of triumphs. But he has stayed the course of a continuing...

Bush has another office for his friend and firm ally, Tony Blair, who stands down as a prime minister of Britain for Gordon Brown. Blair will succeed Álvaro de Soto (resigned in May) as a Mideast envoy and the present job will be a tight rope walking.

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...

Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates are in Russia to talk over the current heat in US-Russian relations over missiles. Most experts are pessimistic about any positive outcome of the Rice-Gates mission. Putin does not want US radars in the Czech...

A leading US newspaper has called President Pervez Musharraf's election "a perversion of democracy", and chided the Bush Administration for encouraging the General to make a "backroom deal" with Benazir Bhutto. The New York Times, in its lead...

As Putin announced to change office in Russia from President to PM, a new debate begins: whether it's a step towards democracy or a kick to democracy. However, another substantial issue is what changes will there be in Russian mood after...

Myanmar's suppression of protests and ongoing arrests have restored a tense calm in the main city Yangon, but discontent and anger are simmering over the bloodshed, the top US diplomat here said Thursday. Shari Villarosa, US charge d'affaires in...

A few days back the six-nation talks concluded after the first round. Now the South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun has gone to North Korea, gushing and enthusiastic, in contrast to the few dour minutes that North Korean leader Kim Jong-II spared for..

Inscrutable North Korea is up to no good. After it pretended to turning into a new leaf by agreeing to give up its nuclear weapons programme, it is supplying Syria with nuclear materials and technology on the sly. Publicly it is agreeing like a...