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Reports: Europe Decides Not to Play America’s Game

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan Denies Taliban Ties in Afghanistan

A/V Booth: ‘Democracy Now!’: NATO Kills 24 Pakistani Troops

Reports: How Libya Plays Into NATO’s Identity Crisis

Ear to the Ground: NATO Declares Libya Mission Officially Over

Ear to the Ground: Indian Summer for Arab Spring?

Ear to the Ground: Questions About Gadhafi’s Death Delay His Burial

Ear to the Ground: NATO Will Keep Up Libya Airstrikes, Panetta Says

Reports: Victory in Tripoli: They Did It

Ear to the Ground: NATO Troops Kill Taliban Fighter Suspected in Copter Crash

Ear to the Ground: A Top Aide to Karzai Is Killed

Ear to the Ground: ‘Leave the Shooters Until Last,’ Gates Urges

Reports: War Against War: A Meditation on Bradley Manning’s Mind

Ear to the Ground: Gadhafi Not About to Leave Libya

Ear to the Ground: European Leaders Threaten Sanctions Against Syria

Ear to the Ground: NATO Loses Confidence in Libyan Rebels

Ear to the Ground: Airstrikes Alone Aren’t Enough in Eastern Libya

Ear to the Ground: Gadhafi Forces Fire Into Residential Areas

Ear to the Ground: Western Leaders Say Gadhafi’s Got to Go

Cartoons: Protecting Civilians

Ear to the Ground: NATO Apologizes to Libyan Rebels

Ear to the Ground: NATO Boosts Bombing Amid Rebel Complaints

Ear to the Ground: With Libya, Sec. Gates Puts His Foot Down

A/V Booth: White House Faces Congress About Libya

Ear to the Ground: Gadhafi Down One Foreign Minister

A/V Booth: Taliban 2.0? Obama Considers Arming Rebels

Reports: Filling in the Blanks

Ear to the Ground: Obama: ‘Days Are Numbered’ for Gadhafi’s Government

Ear to the Ground: Smells Like Regime Change (Update)

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’:  Libya; Nuclear Future; Bachmann In?

Ear to the Ground: NATO Takes Over Part of Libya Campaign

Ear to the Ground: Karzai Plans for Transfer of Control in 7 Regions

Cartoons: No Dove Zone

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Happy to Hand Off Libya, but to Whom?

Ear to the Ground: Critics Question U.S. Role in Libya as Air Attacks Continue

Ear to the Ground: Foreign Leaders Work on Terms of Libyan No-Fly Zone

A/V Booth: ‘Democracy Now!’: Rowley on Afghanistan; Greenwald on Manning

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Aiming to Slash Military Spending

Ear to the Ground: White House Sees Progress in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Calls 2014 Afghanistan Withdrawal ‘Aspirational’

Reports: NATO Summit Unlikely to Answer the Most Important Questions

Reports: The Company We Keep

Ear to the Ground: Gorbachev to NATO: You Can’t Win in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Karzai Admits to Taking Cash From Iran

Ear to the Ground: Iran Joins in for Future Talk About Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Exploring Talks with Taliban in Afghanistan

Reports: Gorbachev’s ‘New Policy Forum’ Hints at the Future

Ear to the Ground: Reopen Sesame

Ear to the Ground: Gen. James L. Jones, National Security Chief No More

Ear to the Ground: NATO Apologizes to Pakistan for Border-Breaching Attack

Ear to the Ground: 27 NATO Tankers Torched in Pakistan

Ear to the Ground: NATO Forces Fire on Targets Inside Pakistan

Reports: A New Season in Military Fashions

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Officials Say 10 Election Workers Killed in Airstrike

Ear to the Ground: A Bloody Close to August in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Petraeus Claims Cautious Progress in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Taliban Demand Civilian Casualties Committee

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon, WikiLeaks Clash Again

Ear to the Ground: WikiLeaks Reveals 6 Years of Afghanistan War Secrets

Ear to the Ground: Afghans Plan for Security Takeover By 2014

Reports: Reality and Reform for How the EU Keeps Its Peace

Ear to the Ground: Petraeus Takes Charge

Reports: Live Chat: Robert Scheer on McChrystal

Ear to the Ground: Fewer Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan

Cartoons: Kandahar Test [A Cartoon From UAE]

Reports: Russia Has Trouble Escaping the Past

Ear to the Ground: Seven American Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: No NATO for Ukraine

Ear to the Ground: Israel Under Int’l Scrutiny for Flotilla Attack

Ear to the Ground: Obama Outlines National Security Doctrine

Reports: What Next for NATO?

A/V Booth: Taliban Suicide Attack Kills 19, Including 5 Americans

Reports: The NATO Nuisance

Ear to the Ground: Kyrgyz President Defiant as Transitional Gov’t Forms

Ear to the Ground: Gibbs: Team Obama ‘Frustrated’ With Karzai’s Remarks

Reports: The Taliban’s Glossy New Front in the Battle for Hearts and Minds

Ear to the Ground: General Points Finger at Gays in Bosnian Massacre

Reports: U.S. Allies in Europe Begin to Pull Back

Ear to the Ground: McChrystal Apologizes for Afghan Civilian Deaths

Ear to the Ground: Alexander Haig Dies

Ear to the Ground: 12 More Civilians Killed; McChrystal Apologizes to Karzai

Ear to the Ground: Karzai Weighs a Draft

Ear to the Ground: Romania to Host U.S. Missile Shield

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Wordplay

Ear to the Ground: ‘Very Challenging Year’ for Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Karzai: Afghan Schoolchildren Killed in Military Operation

Ear to the Ground: The Charge of the Light Brigade

Reports: The Country That Cries Wolf

Reports: Turkish Cooperation—and Coffee—in Short Supply for Israel

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan Getting Speedy Military Aid Delivery From Pentagon

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Taliban Say They Have No International Agenda

Ear to the Ground: ‘Spiraling Increases’ in Afghan Police Deaths

Ear to the Ground: Obama Meets With NATO Chief on Afghan Strategy

Ear to the Ground: McChrystal to Send Troop Request by Week’s End

Ear to the Ground: Secret Report Says Iran Could Build a Bomb

Ear to the Ground: Over 1M Afghan Election Votes May Be Fraudulent

Ear to the Ground: The Human Costs of War

Ear to the Ground: Afghanistan Strike Kills 90

Ear to the Ground: Top U.S. General Calls for Strategy Change in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough

Ear to the Ground: Afghan News Outlets to Be Censored on Election Day

Ear to the Ground: Talking With the Taliban

Reports: The West’s Reckless Approach to Relations With Russia

Reports: Democracy at Gunpoint Guarantees U.S. Defeat

Reports: Europe Needs No Part in Doomed Afghan War

A/V Booth: ObamaTube: Passover/Easter Edition

A/V Booth: Obama Pitches Afghanistan Plan at NATO Huddle

Reports: Silence Meets Despair of Afghan Women

Reports: What Is the Point of NATO?

Ear to the Ground: Mutually Assured Defense Spending

Reports: Sarkozy’s Courtship of NATO Defies Rationality

Reports: Barack Obama, Meet Team B

Ear to the Ground: Biden Talks Afghanistan in NATO Huddle

Reports: It’s Obama’s War Now

Reports: A War Fought in Ignorance

Reports: America’s Confused Cause in Central Asia

Reports: Avoiding Another Cold War

Reports: NATO: Dead Man Walking

Ear to the Ground: Israel Under Fire for Gaza Killings

Ear to the Ground: America’s Afghan Thugs

Reports: West’s Role in Afghanistan Needs Re-Examining

Reports: Not a Team of Rivals at All

Reports: Chevron in the White House

Reports: Was There Any Point to the Bloodshed in Mumbai?

Ear to the Ground: Gates to Keep the Reins of War

Reports: How Many Villages Must We Bomb Before We Find bin Laden?

Reports: Six Held at Guantanamo After Plot Claim Is Dropped

Reports: The Unlearned Lessons of Vietnam Continue to Haunt The U.S.

Reports: Russia’s Resentment of the West Began With a Broken Promise

Reports: U.S. Loses Its Grip on Europe

Reports: ‘Collateral Damage’ Not Much Different From Targeted Killing

Reports: The ‘New Multilateralism’

Ear to the Ground: British Commander Calls Taliban Unbeatable

Ear to the Ground: U.S. and Pakistani Troops Exchange Fire

Ear to the Ground: Rice: Russia on the Wrong Track

Reports: With ‘Allies’ Like NATO, Georgia Better Not Annoy Russia

Ear to the Ground: Palin Talks War With Russia in ABC Interview

Reports: Quagmire, Phase 2: The Invasion of Pakistan

Ear to the Ground: Footage of Slain Afghan Civilians Revives Inquiry Into U.S. Raid

Ear to the Ground: Russia to Georgia: OK, We’ll Leave. But ...

Reports: Russia Calls NATO’s Bluff

Ear to the Ground: Rice Pops Up in Baghdad

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Demands Sanctions Against Russia

Reports: Blowback From Bear-Baiting

Ear to the Ground: Karl Rove’s Ukrainian Sojourn

A/V Booth: Saakashvili Claims Europe Invited Russian Invasion

Ear to the Ground: Russian General Takes Bush’s Bait

Reports: Cold War Spin Only Compounds Georgian Crisis

Reports: A Cut-and-Paste Foreign Policy

Reports: NATO, Georgia and the Ready-Made War

Ear to the Ground: Putin Slams U.S., Georgia’s Western Allies

Ear to the Ground: ‘Surge’ Rhetoric Not Universal

Ear to the Ground: U.S.-Russian Tensions Rise Over Missile Shield Plan

Ear to the Ground: Afghanistan Death Toll Outpaces Iraq

A/V Booth: Is This the Year of the Taliban?

Ear to the Ground: Taliban-Led Raid Frees 1,200 in Afghan Prison Break

Ear to the Ground: Bush to NATO: War Takes Time

Ear to the Ground: The Case of the Moldy Ammunition

Ear to the Ground: Sarkozy Cozies Up to Britain

Ear to the Ground: Putin and the New ‘Arms Race’

Reports: Not So Happy Holidays for Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Russian Nuclear Bombers Fly Again

Ear to the Ground: Civilians Caught in Afghan Airstrike

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Civilian Death Crisis

Ear to the Ground: NATO to Karzai:  Point Taken

Ear to the Ground: Karzai Slams Western Allies’ Battle Tactics

Ear to the Ground: NATO to Probe Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Kandahar District Falls Briefly to Taliban

Ear to the Ground: Tragic Mistake in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: U.S. in Shootout With Afghan Police

Ear to the Ground: 7 Killed as Copter Is Downed in ‘Forgotten War’

Ear to the Ground: Arms Race Déjà Vu?

Ear to the Ground: Airstrike in Afghanistan Kills 21 Civilians

Ear to the Ground: Furor in Afghanistan Over Civilian Deaths

Ear to the Ground: Putin Blasts Missile Shield Scheme

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Civilian Death Toll Climbs

Ear to the Ground: Six NATO Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Civilian Casualties Claimed in Afghanistan Bombing

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Highway Battle Kills 16 Civilians

Ear to the Ground: Blair Seeks U.S. Missile Site in Britain

Ear to the Ground: Administration Lengthens Tours of Duty in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: The Forgotten War

Ear to the Ground: More Than 200 Taliban Fighters Die in Afghan Clash

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