Eurasia

Security forces have seized almost a tonne of explosive materials in the first half of the year, Zaman newspaper reported on Tuesday (July 3rd).

Missing US defence attaché Thomas Mooney was found dead by police on Monday (July 2nd), after going missing on Thursday. Sources tell AP the body was found near his locked car in a remote rural area.

Three Turkish soldiers were killed by a landmine on Saturday (June 30th) during a gunfight between rebels and troops in the Tunceli province near the border with Iraq.

According to the source of AlKavkaz news website, on June 28 during a combat operation near the village of Gezinchu, southern Chechnya, a unit of Mujahideen under the command of Amir Osama blew up an APC of the invaders.

Part 1 JOHN STOCKWELL, 10 October 1987 John Stockwell is the highest-ranking CIA official ever to leave the agency and go public.

The next antiterrorist hysteria is untwisted in London. It is not clear yet, if this company creating fear is connected with election of the new prime minister of this country Gordon Brown.

Affirming his country’s support for Turkey’s EU bid, a senior Portuguese official said on Thursday (June 28th) that the goal of accession talks with Ankara is full membership, rather than a privileged partnership.

THE HARD-LINE regime of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been frightening neighbors with its meddling-by-proxy in Iraq, Lebanon, and Gaza.

The Russian special services are operating in Poland very aggressively, and threat from their party is considerably high, the chief of military counterespionage of Poland Anthony Matserevich said.

The PACE hears one of the most controversial reports in its history Mikhail Zygar. European lawmakers hear a report on CIA secret prisons – and Chechnya; The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has heard a report on CIA secret prisons in Europe.