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Wars and Conflicts Articles

Article:	Who are the Taliban? - The Afghan war deciphered	View Article
Published:	12/4/2008 by TomDispatch.com	View Comments (1)
Submitted by:	Picka 30 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Wars and Conflicts & Military and Defense

Article Details: Who exactly are the Afghan insurgents? Every suicide attack and kidnapping is usually attributed to "the Taliban." In reality, however, the insurgency is far from monolithic. There are the shadowy, kohl-eyed mullahs, head-bobbing religious students, erudite university students, poor, illiterate farmers, and veteran anti-Soviet commanders. The movement is a mélange of nationalists, Islamists, and bandits that fall uneasily into three or four main factions of competing commanders.

Article:	Obama urges Germans to work with US to stop terror	View Article
Published:	7/24/2008 by AP	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Shayon 165 days ago	Add Comment
Category:	Wars and Conflicts

Article Details: Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama on Thursday summoned Europeans and Americans together to "defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it" as surely as they conquered communism a generation ago.

Article:	Sudan Gets New Darfur Crisis Mediator	View Article
Published:	7/21/2008 by VOA News	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Shayon 167 days ago	Add Comment
Category:	Darfur

Article Details: Some Sudanese are reportedly expressing optimism after the new chief mediator visited the country yesterday with a new mission to finding a solution to the Darfur crisis. Djibril Bassole, who is Burkina Faso’s foreign minister, is expected to begin what some are describing as a Herculean task of reigniting the stalled peace talks and ensuring a cessation of hostilities between the rebels and Khartoum.

Article:	Obama Hits McCain on Iraq Comments & Tax Cuts	View Article
Published:	6/12/2008 by ABC News	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	JasonK 206 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	2003 Iraq War & Taxes

Article Details: ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: Senator Obama continued to draw clear contrasts with Senator McCain at a town hall in Kaukauna, Wisconsin over tax policy and the war in Iraq.