Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that preparations were underway for a parliamentary authorization for a cross-border military operation to hunt PKK terrorists who operate from bases in the northern Iraq.

The new challenges to international security reveal themselves on today’s international scene, representing major elements of the new logic that establishes international order: they transform the security environment, redefine international relations and succeed to influence the way be perceive global peace, individual liberties and every day life.  

RUILI, China — Muslim in the South East Asian nation of Myanmar, presently under the international microscope, has for decades been silently suffering from discrimination and a catalogue of abuses.

A failure in the upcoming US-sponsored Middle East peace conference would have more dangerous repercussions than the botched Camp David summit in 2000, Fatah officials warned on Tuesday.

Close to 80 senators – including all those running for president -signed a letter calling for greater Arab support for the peace process ahead of the international conference the US is planning for November.

The Palestinians will only participate in the US-sponsored peace conference expected to be held next month if general agreement is first reached with Israel on all the fundamental issues, Palestinian Authority officials here said Monday.

ISLAMABAD — Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday, October 2, named Lt General Ashfaq Kiyani, Director General of the country’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), to be his successor as army chief.

The scene at the entrance to Ingushetia’s second-largest town Karabulak is menacing. The traffic checkpoint has been reinforced and is now manned by federal troops in armoured vehicles.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that suggestions he could head a future government as a prime minister were “quite realistic”.

BAGHDAD — Troubled with the daily car bombs and threats of violence, Iraq‘s top-notched students want to escape the chaotic future of their war-ravaged nation.