BASRA, Iraq -- The tourist ship Peace was at anchor in the Shatt al Arab waterway but southern Iraq's business leaders were eager to explore new waters when Christopher Hill , the U.S. ambassador to Iraq , took the podium Friday and urged them to
RAMADI, , Oct. 17 Insurgents detonated a truck loaded with five tons of explosives on a bridge that links western Iraq to Jordan and Syria on Saturday, pulverizing part of the strategic overpass and paralyzing traffic for hours, police and resident
GHOWS KALAY, Afghanistan - The village is little more than a handful of mud huts surrounded by wheat fields, but the runway at NATO's main air base in Afghanistan's south is visible from the town center. There, the Afghan commando, his beard still y
For weeks, hard-line elements in Iran's government have been calling for the arrest of the country's opposition leaders, especially defeated presidential candidates Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi. Now it appears, that the government has rais
PUERTO SALGAR, Colombia On a recent sweltering day, Colombian fighter jets took to the sky from this country's most important air base, while mechanics remounted the engine of a medical evacuation plane.Soon, American pilots and crews will also be
SAN'A, Yemen - Shiite Muslim rebels in northern Yemen have seized a key control post on a strategic highway linking the capital San'a with Saudi Arabia, overcoming an army brigade after 12 hours of intense combat, local officials and the rebels said
Britain’s FTSE group, the global index provider owned by the FT and the London Stock Exchange, announced on Wednesday a strategic alliance with MCX-SX, India’s new stock exchange. “By combining FTSE’s indexing heritage with MCX-SX’s deep local knowl
Lloyd’s of London has begun the biggest strategic review it has undertaken this decade in an attempt to ensure the more than 320-year-old insurance market does not fail in exploiting the gaps in the market thrown up by the financial crisis.The Londo
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