On Friday, before an audience of military officers from around the world, Russia’s top generals made a startling admission of weakness.
Russia Wants a Finger on Europe’s Nuclear Shield
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What Really Mattered? Not just great events, but underlying causes
In Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth, the fortuneteller unfurls her skirts, hoists her bodice, strolls downstage and heckles the audience.
Libya: Despite Air Strikes, Gaddafi Forces Outgun Rebels
Anyone expecting that the U.N.-mandated air campaign over Libya is going to enable the country’s rebels to deliver a knockout blow to the Gaddafi regime ought to visit the front line, around 10 km north of Ajdabiyah. That front line has barely moved in the four days since allied air strikes last weekend destroyed the regime’s armored column that had been advancing on the rebel capital of Benghazi.
Afghan insurgents pushed into U.S. base, official says
The battle Saturday in which eight U.S.
Rights group: Israeli offensive killed mostly civilians
A human rights group says more than half of the Palestinians killed during Israel’s three-week offensive against Hamas in Gaza earlier this year were civilians, contradicting an Israeli military claim. Israel had said that more than 60 percent of those killed in the military campaign were “terror operatives.” The Israeli human rights organization B’tselem released figures Wednesday, saying that, of the 1387 killed, 773 “did not take part in the hostilities” and, that of those, 320 minors were killed