For Nasser, the war's coverage has turned into a battle zone . She says

The Iraq War proved costly to American soft power, with the US losing about 30 percentage points of attractiveness on average in Europe, including in countries like Britain, Spain, and Italy, whose governments supported the war. The recent photographs of detainees being abused and sexually degraded in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison added fuel to the fire.

During the Cold War, Europe was America s first line of defense.

The end of the civil war was an unambiguously positive development for Sri Lanka.

Khoramshahr was a symbol of resistance during the Iran Iraq war for many Iranians.

The Russia Georgia war showed just how much this region matters to the wider world.

But the war could have been conducted in a way that minimized the cost for Pakistan.

In war, for civilians as much as for soldiers, there isn't much that is more terrifying than not knowing.

They are safe and the war is far away, but for Aboud and her family, Germany means more than just safety.

The battle with the judges may well prove to be Mubarak s Achilles heel.

Allied diplomacy was able to bring Romania into the war in 1916 but this proved disastrous for the Romanians.

It is true that two horrendous world wars have taken the glamour out of war for most Europeans (Britain is a slightly different story).

The forces that shaped the post war creation of the United Nations were unique to that time.

But to the three Baltic countries the end of WWII led to half a century of occupation and lost opportunities.

At least for now, engaging China in the global fight against terrorism is in America's interest.

The treaty was an instrumental tool for the Soviet Union to gain political leverage in the internal affairs of Finland in post war era.

After the armistice that ended the Korean War in 1953, the 38th parallel was established as the limit for US forces presence the importance of that war for China should not be forgotten.

For Russia, the issue is simple because the crisis which has led to more homeless children than after either the Civil War or World War II is so stark.

In the United States, the term was used for the Continentals by the British in the Revolutionary War, and for the Confederacy by the Union in the American Civil War.

In some contexts it also refers to other countries in the Soviet sphere of influence during the Cold War such as North Korea (especially in the years surrounding the Korean War of 1950 1953) and Cuba (particularly after it joined the Comecon in 1972).

To many, it was a glorious moment, emblematic of the West s victory in the Cold War, and one that seemed to come out of the blue.

Is the Arab world s Cold War patron really back, and, if so, what will it mean for peace in the region?

If you take into account 80 percent of all Americans were born after World War II, this is essentially our Depression.

They were weaned on Gamal Abdel Nasser s pan Arab nationalism, and the crucial political event for them was the Arab defeat in the 1967 Arab Israeli war.

In other words, for those of us who have grown cynical towards Lebanese politics, that one former warlord decided to endorse another former warlord didn't really come as a shock.

Whereas America s war in Indochina was a tragic mistake, the cost of a wider war precipitated by the crisis in Iraq would be incomparably greater for both the patient and the doctor.

Afghanistan is of vital strategic interest to China, yet it never crossed its leaders minds to defend those interests through war.

He also said in his book that the Santos business manager assured the players that the Nigerian civil war would be stopped for their exhibition match and it wouldn t be a problem for the authorities.

Of the million horses that were sent abroad from the U.K., only 62,000 returned, the rest dying in the war or slaughtered in France for meat.

Containment was unfeasible, because, unlike the Soviet Union during the Cold War, China s neighbors did not see it as a clear and present danger.

Notwithstanding the interest in animal welfare of the previous century, the situation for animals arguably deteriorated in the 20th century, particularly after the Second World War.

NEW YORK This year is likely to be the worst for the global economy since World War II, with the World Bank estimating a decline of up to 2 .

These were the only personal transport choices available to most people in Western countries prior to World War II, and remain the only options for most people in the developing world.

Expressing also its deep concern for the security of humanitarian workers and their access to populations in need, including refugees, internally displaced persons and other war affected populations,

The Registry was to officially begin court management services at the court facility on 31 January 2005 for both the organized crime and war crimes dockets.

For India, the end of the Cold War triggered a foreign policy crisis by eliminating the country s most reliable partner, the Soviet Union.

The crime of rape has for the first time become the crime against humanity. The war has caused that basic social services become unavailable to most of the population, which affected the health condition of women most, but also the whole population of BiH.

The individualization of guilt, where it is found to exist, can only serve to strengthen the legitimacy of the homeland war.

In that regard, several days ago, on 12 December 2005, the Belgrade District Court's special department for war crimes completed court proceedings for the war crimes committed in 1991 at the Ovcara farm, near the town of Vukovar.

This war, therefore, will simply make it more difficult to engage with those countries at the very moment such talks are absolutely necessary.

On the US side, a lingering Cold War mentality, combined with the presumption of US economic superiority, has meant that economic issues are still deemed subservient to geo political concerns.

Recent evidence that deaths and injuries would have been greatly reduced had better body armor been provided to troops suggests how short run frugality can lead to long run costs. Certainly, when a war s timing is a matter of choice, as in this case, inadequate preparation is even less justifiable.

Like other weapons, the use of munitions that may become ERW is regulated by the rules found in IHL treaties and customary international law.

In this bracingly honest talk, international security strategist Thomas Barnett outlines a post Cold War solution for the foundering U.S. military that is both sensible and breathtaking in its simplicity Break it in two.

His father s plan for Germania, the name Hitler selected for the Berlin that he planned to construct after World War II, also relied on such a mighty central axis.