Why A Maximalist Af-Pak Policy Will Not Work
Let's turn to Afghanistan. There is a weak and corrupt government, little to no standing armed forces, and parts of the country entirely controlled by the Taliban.
Let's turn to Afghanistan. There is a weak and corrupt government, little to no standing armed forces, and parts of the country entirely controlled by the Taliban.
AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 10.22.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — A billionaire hedge fund manager charged in a $25 million insider trading case was sued by victims of violence in Sri Lanka who say h...
Reuters | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Accused billionaire Raja Rajaratnam, founder of the Galleon hedge fund, and his family's foundation were sued in a U.S. court on ...
Jim Luce | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
Fourteen years after the civil war in Rwanda, refugees are still living in mud huts. In Bosnia, following Balkanization, people lacked heat and ...
David Harris | Posted 11.18.2009 | World
By the time the Goldstone mission "considered" Israel's entry into Gaza, the result was a foregone conclusion. Context? No way. Balance? Forget about it. The verdict? Already in
Posted 11.15.2009 | Impact
The Sri Lankan government declared victory back in May when they defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), also known as the Tamil Tigers....
Al Jazeera | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
The Sri Lankan High Commission has denied its forces carried out atrocities against ethnic Tamils after a video apparently showing a man being execu...
Amnesty International | Posted 09.12.2009 | World
New satellite images reveal two new alarming features of an inaccessible Sri Lankan conflict zone: Large gravesites and evidence of mortars used in and around the so-called civilian save zone.
AP | Posted 09.06.2009 | World
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka says that a wanted arms smuggler who recently took over as the new leader of the defeated Tamil Tiger rebels has ...
John Feffer | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
We have our suicide bombers -- we call them heroes. We have our culture of indoctrination -- we call it basic training. We kill civilians -- we call it collateral damage.
James Ross | Posted 08.29.2009 | World
Holding several hundred thousand civilians under lock and key, the government is keeping the survivors of the fighting from telling their stories to the media and human rights groups.
The Times of India | PTI 22 July 2009, 06:21pm IST | Posted 08.22.2009 | World
COLOMBO: Vowing to pursue its campaign for 'Tamil Eelam', the LTTE has named alleged arms smuggler Selvarasa Pathmanathan as its new chief to succeed...
nytimes.com | LYDIA POLGREEN | Posted 08.13.2009 | World
CHEDDIKULAM, Sri Lanka When the piercing whistle and sharp thuds of artillery shells grew faint, S. Theventhran dashed to safety....
Anuradha K. Herath | Posted 08.08.2009 | World
Humanitarian organizations criticized the Sri Lankan government for collaborating with Karuna, a former rebel alleged to have committed war crimes.
Jim Luce | Posted 07.28.2009 | World
With the changing nature of armed conflict, the impact of war on children and young people has become more brutal than ever.
The Times of India | Posted 07.20.2009 | World
Key Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operative Mohammad Umer Madani reportedly motivated and recruited Maoist fighters from Jharkhand and Bihar. ...
Al Jazeera English | Posted 07.18.2009 | World
The few surviving leaders of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have announced that they are transforming the former Sri Lankan rebel movemen...
Jim Luce | Posted 07.09.2009 | World
As I travel through Sri Lanka, covering the nation as it seeks reconciliation among its diverse population after decades of conflict, I am receiving e-mails from my friends at home asking me to review the basics.
Jim Luce | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
The Sri Lankan government has battled the Tamil Tigers on two fronts for almost three decades: on the battlefield and in the arena of world opinion. No one thought they could win militarily, but they did.
Jim Luce | Posted 07.05.2009 | World
The Sri Lankan government has moved mountains to accommodate more than a quarter million displaced people since the war ended ten days ago. But they have many more to move.
Jim Luce | Posted 07.05.2009 | World
Sri Lanka is now focused on the "3 R's:" Rehabilitation, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation. European leaders need to stop lecturing and start helping.
Jim Luce | Posted 06.30.2009 | World
Congressman Heath Shuler's visit was the first time I have heard an American elected official seem to understand what has transpired here in Sri Lanka.
Jim Luce | Posted 06.29.2009 | World
Since the defeat of the revolutionary Tamil Tigers, the streets of Columbo, the capital of Sri Lanka, are alive with euphoria.
Times Online | Catherine Philp in Colombo | Posted 06.28.2009 | World
More than 20,000 Tamil civilians were killed in the final throes of the Sri Lankan civil war, most as a result of government shelling, an investigatio...
Eric Margolis | Posted 06.26.2009 | World
Standard wisdom has it that conventional armies can't win guerilla wars. But last week's defeat of the Tamil Tigers shows there are important exceptions to this general rule.
Lionel Beehner | Posted 11.10.2009 | World