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AFRICA
December 18, 2006 - Al Qaida in control of Somalia; U.S. won't intervene

December 18, 2006 - Sudan-backed militia resumes attacks on civilians in Darfour

January 8, 2007 - Morocco arrests 62 Al Qaida suspects in new crackdown

January 19, 2007 - Sudan on arm-shopping trip to Iran

January 19, 2007 - Morocco to regulate the building of mosques

January 24, 2007 - Algeria trades gas for Russian nuclear energy

January 24, 2007 - Algeria appeals to public for help against Salafists

January 24, 2007 - 'Broken Hope' in Darfur

February 8, 2007 - Morocco bids to host base for new U.S. Africa Command

February 15, 2007 - Morocco on alert after reported Al Qaida infiltrations

February 27, 2007 - The Last King of Zimbabwe

March 5, 2007 - Top Sudan official faces war crimes charges over Darfour

March 13, 2007 - Morocco captures terror suspect in Madrid bombings

March 21, 2007 - Your UN tax dollars at work: How South Africa stalled Iran sanctions

EAST ASIA

December 28, 2006 - Soft-spoken UN leader brings academic credentials to job

January 4, 2007 - Secret weapon: N. Korean troops get high with karaoke

January 5, 2007 - In Asia it’s a new Cold War

January 8, 2007 - China’s Orwellian white paper blacklists tiny Taiwan

January 12, 2007 - Beijing lures overseas Chinese for special tech centers

January 15, 2007 - An American 'business professor' on the 'China wars'

January 16, 2007 - Global economic report card: E. Asia 'most dynamic', U.S. still the 'locomotive'

January 19, 2007 - Growing strains with Seoul over moving 'tripwire' U.S. troops

January 22, 2007 - What Zhang Hongbao wrote about China's strategy before his 'car accident'

January 25, 2007 - North Korean forces increasingly manned by women soldiers

January 25, 2007 - Anti-satellite power: 'There are things we don't know we don't know'

February 2, 2007 - China doubled number of missiles targeting Taiwan since 2002

February 2, 2007 - Japan to help Libya double its crude oil output

February 5, 2007 - Japan to help Libya double its crude oil output

February 6, 2007 - Ban Ki-moon hits the ground stumbling, but at least Kofi is gone

February 7, 2007 - Report: Female numbers growing in N. Korean military forces

February 8, 2007 - Nuclear North Korea buffeted by a cultural 'South wave'

February 21, 2007 - Did Kim Jong-il blink or wink?

February 22, 2007 - Czech daily hits N. Korea deal: Kim 'deserves fate of Saddam'

February 22, 2007 - U.S. studios sue Chinese firm over 21 pirated films, win $20,000

February 23, 2007 - Pyongyang seizes Japanese cars

February 23, 2007 - The North Korea diplomatic 'breakthrough' (screwup?)

February 28, 2007 - China's Hu lays down the law on rule of law advocates

March 1, 2007 - Chinese media-intel front seeks capital from U.S. markets

March 8, 2007 - Chen warns Taiwan's economy too dependent on Mainland's

March 13, 2007 - China firm scores big oil find in Algeria

March 16, 2007 - A lesson in Asia collective security from Australia and Japan

March 23, 2007 - China budgets $3 billion for 'perception management' ops

March 28, 2007 - S. Korean firms at Kaesong to employ half million N. Koreans

LATIN AMERICA

October 30, 2006 - Chavez's performance art at UN costs Venezuela a Security Council seat

February 9, 2007 - Chavez announces May takeover of all Venezuela oil fields

February 23, 2007 - Mexico boosts security at oil sites following Al Qaida threat

March 14, 2007 - Shadows south of the border

STATESIDE

January 1, 2007 - Gerald R. Ford Remembered

January 1, 2007 - Five Former Presidents and President George W. Bush Salute Gerald R. Ford

January 1, 2007 - Looking ahead: No world peace but it's 2007!

January 1, 2007 - U.S. intelligence 'without peer'? The tragicomic CIA

January 2, 2007 - Overkill: U.S. military tried to delay holiday hanging

January 2, 2007 - U.S. helicopters, APCs to replace Soviet-made platforms in Iraq

January 2, 2007 - U.S. seeks successor to Mubarak in Egypt, 2nd largest aid recipent

January 5, 2007 - U.S. sanctions Syrian agencies as 'WMD proliferators'

January 8, 2007 - U.S. intelligence quietly backed Ethiopia in war against Somalia

January 9, 2007 - U.S. Pacific commander switched to the Persian Gulf

January 9, 2007 - U.S. Central Command sends aircraft carrier to Somalia

January 9, 2007 - Anti-roadside bomb tech also jams military communications

January 10, 2007 - 'The advance of freedom is the calling of our time'

January 11, 2007 - Bush urges Gulf states, Turkey to back the new Iraq

January 11, 2007 - How not to fight a war

January 12, 2007 - Bush seeks expanded military, new focus on Iran in 2007

January 16, 2007 - U.S. deploys jet fighters to Turkey's Incirlik base

January 16, 2007 - U.S. suspends all sub operations to review cause of accidents

January 19, 2007 - Gates holds summit with Saudi defense, intelligence leaders

January 19, 2007 - U.S. keeps wraps on new tech for Iraq

January 19, 2007 - The war the U.S. has lost: Ideas and, yes, propaganda

January 24, 2007 - Bush speech hails nation's 'heroic kindness, courage, self sacrifice'

January 24, 2007 - Contractors balk at Iraq infrastructure projects

January 24, 2007 - Blackwater to provide training to security forces in southern Sudan

January 25, 2007 - U.S. denies minesweepers are part of Gulf buildup

January 26, 2007 - Blackwater security contractors killed in attack on helicopters

January 30, 2007 - Bush's State of the Union confronts a corrosive ill wind

January 30, 2007 - Carriers provide 'awesome' clout without U.S. boots on ground

January 31, 2007 - U.S. halts sale of F-14 parts to prevent Iran acquisition

February 1, 2007 - Obama warns Bush not to engage Iran without public support

February 2, 2007 - The long war: Shallow debate here misses the global Islamofascist context

February 5, 2007 - U.S. intelligence issues a pessimistic Iraq report

February 5, 2007 - American literature: The 'sightless and hence doomed' West

February 6, 2007 - U.S. now think insurgents used missiles to down helicopters

February 7, 2007 - U.S. forces offered training in Arabic

February 8, 2007 - The high stakes game for Iran

February 9, 2007 - New intelligence chief urges ideological war on Islamists

February 12, 2007 - U.S. warns of rising terror threat to Westerners throughout Turkey

February 13, 2007 - U.S. to cut aid to Mideast states not critical to war on terror

February 13, 2007 - U.S. to pay millions for capture of Iran-backed terrorists

February 14, 2007 - Google Earth spies on key bases, facilities in S. Korea

February 14, 2007 - U.S. upgrades port to support Horn of Africa operations

February 15, 2007 - In bow to Beijing, Google censors anti-satellite test graphic

February 19, 2007 - Brookings links to Islamic world with new center in Qatar

February 19, 2007 - U.S. sanctions Iran companies for 2nd time this year

February 20, 2007 - ExxonMobil wins offshore oil deal with Libya

February 21, 2007 - Fifth Fleet commander warns of 'unprecedented tension' in Gulf

February 21, 2007 - CFR urges improved ties between U.S., Turkey

February 26, 2007 - U.S. military banking on Turkey for Iran, Iraq access

February 27, 2007 - U.S. seeks to keep Oman bases despite anxieties about Iran

February 28, 2007 - Report: 3 wars in Iraq has U.S. stymied, Al Qaida in control

February 28, 2007 - U.S., Israel extend missile defense program, prepare for Iran nukes

March 5, 2007 - Iraqis take charge in Baghdad; U.S. leads raid on Sadr City

March 5, 2007 - Americans in Jordan warned of attack

March 5, 2007 - U.S., Turkey to talk oil exploration in northern Iraq

March 6, 2007 - U.S. captures Iraq's number 2 Al Qaida leader

March 8, 2007 - U.S. reports 80 percent drop in Iraq insurgency attacks

March 12, 2007 - U.S. raids targeting foreign Al Qaida hideouts in Iraq

March 12, 2007 - Are 'democracies' — the U.S. in particular — eternal?

March 13, 2007 - Clear Libby: Bush was right, CIA sought to undermine Iraq policy

March 13, 2007 - U.S. destroys car bomb factories, Baghdad violence drops

March 16 2007 - Stealth lie detector measures stress levels over the phone

March 20 2007 - Bush 'angrier than anyone else' about Darfour

March 23, 2007 - U.S.: Al Qaida on the run, violence down in Baghdad

March 23, 2007 - U.S. forces redeploying, reducing presence in major Iraq cities

March 26, 2007 - U.S. won't hassle Mubarak over suppression of Brotherhood

March 26, 2007 - What are good jihadists on the Euphrates to make of the spectacle on the Potomac?

March 28, 2007 - U.S. Gulf exercise largest since 2003 invasion of Iraq

March 28, 2007 - Administration warns Congress on anti-Turkey resolutions

March 28, 2007 - Strained alliance: Israeli officials resent treatment by U.S.

March 28, 2007 - Coalition operation takes aim at Al Qaida stronghold in Ramadi

March 29, 2007 - U.S. says most Iraq bombers via Syria: 'It has to stop'

March 29, 2007 - U.S. official: Sanctions hurting Iran

March 29, 2007 - Bush vs his stereotype

March 30, 2007 - Bush goal: Korean 'peace regime' during last year in office

March 30, 2007 - U.S. builds 500 police stations, puts Iraqis in charge

March 30, 2007 - Halliburton to open headquarters in Dubai

MIDDLE EAST

December 28, 2006 - Newly-powerful Shi'ite opposition disrupts Bahrain parliament

December 29, 2006 - Gulf states to counter Iran with largest exercise ever

December 29, 2006 - Hizbullah building its network in West Bank

January 1, 2007 - Pakistan’s smoldering crisis

January 2, 2007 - Saudis mobilize RDF as 2 million arrive for Haj

January 3, 2007 - Security official: U.S. no longer trusts Israel to strike Iran nukes

January 3, 2007 - Iran to concluded $3.5 billion oil deal with Nigeria

January 3, 2007 - Israeli military contractors break record with $4.4 billion in exports

January 3, 2007 - Security official: U.S. no longer trusts Israel to strike Iran nukes

January 5, 2007 - India again seeks Iraq oil deal

January 5, 2007 - Westerners advised to leave Gaza

January 8, 2007 - Palestinians have guns, manpower but lack morale vs. Hamas

January 8, 2007 - Iraq to shift Kurdish forces from peaceful areas to Baghdad

January 8, 2007 - Hamas targets PSA as only effective Fatah agency

January 9, 2007 - Libya awards oil deals to U.S., India, Japan firms

January 10, 2007 - Sunni hitmen competing for money and status

January 10, 2007 - Israel One in 7 suicide bombers is an Arab citizen

January 11, 2007 - Iran arrests spy charged with leaking nuke data

January 11, 2007 - Palestinians get religion: Fatah adopting Hamas' Islamist ways

January 11, 2007 - Saudi readies younger slate in cabinet shakeup

January 11, 2007 - Hamas stockpiling weapons in West Bank cities

January 12, 2007 - Gulf states see trouble ahead; Defense spending spikes

January 16, 2007 - Intel report sees the end of Iraq, transformation in Mideast

January 16, 2007 - Israel reopens urban war center, plans paintball courses

January 16, 2007 - Al Qaida group tracking foreign diplomats in Tunisia

January 17, 2007 - Israel's chief of staff resigns under pressure

January 17, 2007 - Iraq grooming youthful corps of officers

January 19, 2007 - Jordan trained 8,700 Iraqi police last year

January 19, 2007 - Kuwait oil refinery hit by 2nd blaze in 3 months

January 22, 2007 - Strategist: Iran believes it could destroy Israel with a single nuke

January 23, 2007 - Report: Gulf states would prefer U.S. strike to a nuclear Iran

January 24, 2007 - Jews driven from homes in northern Yemen

January 24, 2007 - Turkey strikes Kurdish insurgents on Iraq border

January 24, 2007 - Iran testing short-range missiles in exercise

January 24, 2007 - Sunni surge in Baghdad

January 26, 2007 - Maliki's Iraq prepares to roll out U.S. security plan

January 26, 2007 - Saudis plan major increase in oil output by 2009

January 30, 2007 - Egypt calls torture video on web a national security threat

January 30, 2007 - Turkey arrests 48 in nationwide Al Qaida crackdown

January 31, 2007 - Iraq air force recruits must be apolitical, ethnically correct

January 31, 2007 - Hizbullah bunkers found inside Israel territory

January 31, 2007 - Turkey angered by Iraqi directive to deal with Kurdistan on oil

January 31, 2007 - Saudis name PR specialist as ambassador to U.S.

January 31, 2007 - Fighting breaks out in Yemen with Shi'ite group tied to Iran

January 31, 2007 - Al Qaida attacks music stores, western-dressed women in Gaza

February 5, 2007 - Gates announces Gulf buildup

February 5, 2007 - Hamas blocking western arms for Palestinians shipped via Egypt

February 5, 2007 - Report: Israel's Defense Ministry has sole authority over its budget

February 5, 2007 - It's not rocket science but Israel can't agree on rocket defense

February 5, 2007 - Hamas blocking western arms for Palestinians shipped via Egypt

February 6, 2007 - Hamas government warns it will 'prosecute media' in Gaza

February 6, 2007 - 15 percent of Jordan budget comes from U.S., Saudi aid

February 7, 2007 - Israel charges Egypt ignoring tunnels near border

February 7, 2007 - Iran begins major 2-day exercise

February 8, 2007 - Fatah being helped by Israel in its quiet war with Hamas

February 8, 2007 - Sunni tribes joining border wars against Al Qaida

February 12, 2007 - Iran arms Iraqi insurgents

February 12, 2007 - Successful missile defense test: 'Israelis can sleep soundly'

February 12, 2007 - Bahrain cracks down on Iran agents buying land

February 12, 2007 - Bahrain plans 700 wells in massive oil push

February 13, 2007 - Bahrain plans 700 wells in massive oil push

February 13, 2007 - Iran counting on Beijing and trade ties to dispel U.S. challenge

February 14, 2007 - Hamas announces missile war in Israel

February 15, 2007 - Israelis see insurgents tunneling under planned security wall

February 19, 2007 - New hero for Al Qaida wannabes: The lone sniper

February 19, 2007 - Violence follows unity accord by Palestinians in Mecca

February 19, 2007 - Libya's pro-free enterprise PM may fire one third of civil service

February 19, 2007 - Kurds send 3 brigades for surge; Insurgent strikes down 80 percent

February 19, 2007 - Operation Law and Order kicks off in Baghdad

February 19, 2007 - Gulf state hosts largest arms show ever in Mideast

February 20, 2007 - Islamists seen easily winning reelection in Turkey

February 20, 2007 - Qatar in talks to acquire top European defense firm

February 21, 2007 - Morale tanks for unpaid Palestinian security forces

February 23, 2007 - Captured terrorists reveal Hizbullah plans for Israel

February 23, 2007 - Iran bans resale of gas it sends Turkey by pipeline

February 26, 2007 - Iran's first space launch rocket fails to achieve orbit

February 26, 2007 - Saudis move to check excesses of religious police

February 26, 2007 - Dahlan rejects offer to serve with Hamas in Palestinian post

February 26, 2007 - Israeli, Lebanese troops meters apart in border standoff

February 27, 2007 - United Arab Emirates gets tough with pro-terror money-launderer

February 27, 2007 - Military exhibition, IDEX-2007, in UAE breaks records

February 28, 2007 - Hamas government bankrupt, leaders invest in web sites

February 28, 2007 - How to explain the rise of Islamofascism? One word: Success

March 2, 2007 - Many Iraqi troops deployed to Baghdad are no-shows

March 2, 2007 - Israeli undercover agents kill key Islamic Jihad operatives

March 2, 2007 - Major new oil field discovered in Libya

March 6, 2007 - Fatah, Hamas clash in Gaza turf battle

March 6, 2007 - Libya's Khaddafy warns Western oil firms 'want to steal our riches'

March 6, 2007 - Pushing Pakistan’s Musharaf to the brink as Afghanistan hangs in the balance

March 7, 2007 - Israel on worldwide alert after disappearance of Iran official

March 7, 2007 - Gulf states agreee they are weak, focus on security

March 7, 2007 - Hamas crusades again Western music, Internet porn

March 8, 2007 - Israelis warned: Leave all nations in Mideast (except Israel)

March 8, 2007 - Gulf roiled by Iran crisis; Kuwait holds rare military parade

March 8, 2007 - Iran, Russia firm building reactor have same problem: No money

March 9, 2007 - Federalism to the rescue: Here, there and Iraq?

March 12, 2007 - Syria has deployed 1,000+ rockets near Israel border, Israelis report

March 12, 2007 - Al Qaida warns Austria, Germany on Afghan deployment

March 14 2007 - Israel intelligence: Iran forming Hamas-led Palestinian army

March 14 2007 - Bombers of Internet cafes now targeting 'sluts' at Gaza U.

March 14 2007 - Libya claims it's back on track for 'peaceful' nuclear power

March 15 2007 - Palestinians can't account for hundreds of millions in aid

March 19 2007 - Intelligence credited for capture of top Al Qaida aide

March 19 2007 - House resolution on Turkey called bad for U.S. strategic interests

March 19 2007 - Palestinian unity government called a Saudi-funded front

March 20 2007 - Egypt's Mubarak cracks down on Muslim Brotherhood

March 20 2007 - Iraq plans to expand Army by 30,000

March 20 2007 - Report: Israel fears Egypt's navy could block its sea lanes

March 20 2007 - Oil-rich Qatar plans major shifts to diversify its economy

March 21 2007 - Gulf state pipelines would bypass Iran's Straits of Hormuz

March 21 2007 - Israeli intel terms Israeli Arabs a greater strategic threat than Iran

March 22, 2007 - Rejected on ports deal, UAE to buy 2 U.S. aerospace firms

March 22, 2007 - U.S. intel chief expects Israel to 'protect' against Iran threat

March 22, 2007 - Al Qaida fighters from Iraq holed up in Lebanon refugee camp

March 23, 2007 - Iran using fast boats, mini-subs in 8-day naval exercise

March 23, 2007 - Kurdish government says it will make the calls on Iraqi oil

March 23, 2007 - Israel military ready to spend up to $1 billion to resupply

March 26, 2007 - Dissidents discover secret base is Bahraini royal playground

March 26, 2007 - Report: Iran ordered abductions to avenge defections

March 26, 2007 - Saudis tied to domineering Wahabi presence in Bosnia

March 26, 2007 - Iran, Britain in first open clash since 2004

EUROPE
January 17, 2007 - Russian confirms shipments of TOR-M1s to Iran

January 30, 2007 - Leftwing group claims credit for attack on U.S. embassy in Athens

February 2, 2007 - Putin plans arms-selling tour of the Mideast

February 19, 2007 - Vladimir Putin: Stalinist retread, dying bear or mere mediocrity?

February 21, 2007 - Russia on Iran's tardy payments: 'Without money' no reactor

February 26, 2007 - New Russian threat: Its strategic cooperation with China

March 5, 2007 - Solzhenitsyn’s memoir: Navrozov as a scorpion who stung him

March 7, 2007 - Russian journalists: Reporter's death 'not suicide'

March 26, 2007 - The love of freedom and the English language, . . . and the love of my life

March 28, 2007 - EU at 50: Transcending national rivalries, shedding a shared Christian heritage

March 29, 2007 - Russia: Border movments by U.S. signal plans to strike Iran

March 30, 2007 - Russian hypersonic missile to defeat U. S. defenses

WORLDTECHTRIBUNE.COM
October 28, 2003 - New high tech, high-speed ship could rapidly deploy U.S. forces

July 1, 2003 - High-tech spear in the war on terrorism

July 8, 2003 - After Littleton: High tech firm helps 'first responders'

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Guest Commentaries

November 14, 2004 - Damn the infidels: Democrats, insurgents can't tolerate dissent

November 14, 2004 - Koch: Democrats tainted by far left, Michael Moore, Hollywood sleaze

October 31, 2004 - Kerry's 'global test' would have spared Soviets, crushed Solidarity

September 24, 2004 - Essential reading: A fresh look at Sun Tzu by, his descendants

September 24, 2004 - Michael Moore: Best buddies with the sworn enemies of America

June 28, 2004 - Koch: Moore's propaganda film cheapens debate, polarizes nation

June 4, 2004 - Khobar massacre fails to register on world's outrage radar

April 4, 2004 - Who's Kerry?

February 27, 2004 - The pivotal battle has been joined: For marriage, against arrogant judges

February 23, 2004 - An open letter to Sen. Kerry: 'You are either with us, with the Iranian people, or with the regime'