Iran is giving no momentum for the US to recover from the fatigue of Iraq’s dirty insurgency.
As tensions have escalated after repeated and well-founded testimonies proving Iran’s state-sponsorship of Iraqi insurgents, the new maneuver has just begun in Lebanon. Western diplomats and military experts in Iraq claim the insurgents are backed by Iran and that Iran-made arms and heavy ammunition are supplied to them in large scales.
The US – Iran rivalry is a historic reality that, unfortunately, it victimizes and abuses innocent Iraqis and Lebanese in the Middle East.
In Lebanon, Hezbollah   ...................

As the insurgency continues to get strength, NATO forces’ operations need to be reinvigorated.
On Friday, May 09, 2008, NATO’s top generals said that limits placed on NATO forces operation in Afghanistan by their national governments have allowed militant forces to keep a foothold in the country.
Two of ISAF's biggest contributors, France and Germany, have refused to let their troops enter southern Afghanistan, the most conflict-ridden part of the country, because of political pressures at home. The Taliban militants have continued to pose huge challenges to NATO operations in Afghanistan. One of the great challenges posed by the Taliban  ..................

China is big in almost every dimension, and its international influence has been increasing, as one would expect of a society comprising one-quarter of the world’s people
By: Sajjad Hussain
China as an “emerging superpower” makes for a compelling story line in the media. It is reinforced by the propaganda image that the current Chinese leadership would like us to accept. But the reality is quite different.
Although recent events in Tibet and western China –  ..............

By: Nasruddin Hemati
Peace talks with the armed militants in Pakistan and Afghanistan has been one the most burning questions in the region and the world.
Afghan and new Pakistani government have been trying to overcome insurgency and put an end to violence through holding peace talks with the dissenters fighting against afghan, Pakistani and international forces deployed in Afghanistan since later 2001. Pakistan’s tribal areas are actually known as stronghold for extremist militias and Taliban’s .................

By: Jawad Rahmani
After passing almost seven years from presence of NATO, ISAF and US forces, still Taliban insurgency massively uses the unavoidable tactics. It and associated groups are using terror tactics to spread fear far from their heartland in the southern and eastern provinces bordering Pakistan, where NATO, US forces and Afghan Army battle them in daily combat.
It seems troublesome that the government and its foreign allies win the war and bring peace and security inland, unless fuels for factories of extremism production are not   ....................

By: Ron Synovitz
In Afghanistan's northeastern Badakhshan Province, Sharifa feeds rice and bread to her nieces and nephews. The six children are orphans who were left in Sharifa's care when her sister died.
Due to poor conditions, the children's mother bled to death while giving birth in her home. Sharifa says her pregnant sister was not able to travel over the rough roads to a medical center in the city of Faizabad -- just three kilometers from her village -- in time to give birth.
"My sister died while giving birth," Sharifa told the Reuters news  ...........