News headlines for “War on Terror”, page 10
U.S.-IRAQ: Hawks Fret Over U.S. Withdrawal
- Inter Press Service
Eclipsed by the war in Afghanistan, growing tensions between Israel and its neighbours, and the continuing reverberations of the so-called 'Arab Spring', Iraq is inching back into the news here as a debate over the future of U.S. military forces there gathers steam.
Kabul Attack Continues Taliban Control of War Narrative
- Inter Press Service
Gen. David Petraeus wrote in his 2006 counterinsurgency manual that the U.S. command headquarters should establish a 'narrative' for the counterinsurgency war — a simple storyline that provides a framework for understanding events, both for the population of the country in question and for international audiences.
U.S.-SAUDI ARABIA: Agreeing on Less and Less
- Inter Press Service
Accumulating strains between the United States and Saudi Arabia are steadily weakening one of the world's longest lasting and most effective bilateral alliances, according to observers here.
NATO-Led Forces Secure Kabul After Attacks
- Inter Press Service
Afghan and NATO forces have ended their assault on Taliban fighters, 20 hours after the group launched coordinated attacks in Kabul, targeting NATO's headquarters, the U.S. embassy and the Afghan intelligence agency.
U.S.: Ten Years Later, Still Equating Terrorism with Islam
- Inter Press Service
Karen Keyworth is frustrated by the racial profiling and ignorance frequently displayed towards Muslims and Arabs in the United States after 9/11.
OP-ED: Did 9/11 Make Peace Passé?
- Inter Press Service
Peace has never been a particularly popular word in Washington, DC. This is, after all, the home of the Pentagon and the major military contractors, not to mention all the think tanks and congressional lapdogs that lie in the king- size family bed with them.
PAKISTAN: 9/11 Legacy - An AK-47 in Every Home
- Inter Press Service
The United States-led war-on terror, unleashed on Afghanistan in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, has utterly destabilised the neighbouring Pashtun-dominated tribal areas of Pakistan and reduced them to a state of utter lawlessness.
Q&A: 'We Have to Find a Way to Communicate'
- Inter Press Service
'The anger that rushes through me goes well beyond the hellish night I've just lived through. In a flash, I feel a terrible bond not only with the victims of September 11th but also with the kids brainwashed to become instruments of death in the name of an invented Islam,' Mariane Pearl wrote in her 2003 book 'A Mighty Heart'.
U.S.: A Dark Decade for Civil Rights and Liberties
- Inter Press Service
The tenth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center's Twin Towers and the Pentagon on Sep. 11, 2001 are marked by mourning.
Weighing in on 'Generation 9/11'
- Inter Press Service
The 10 years since Sep. 11, 2001 have offered scholars, politicians and the Millennial Generation, a group who was entering adolescence at the turn of the century, fodder for contention about just what the changes of the last decade mean for the younger generation.