April, 2007

• 5 April

  Pardoned British Troops Thank Ahmadinejad

  The 15 British troops, who were arrested by Iran’s border guards on March 23rd for illegal entry into Iranian waters, appreciated Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for pardoning them.

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• 5 April

  No World Authority Stands against Bullying Powers

  Today, man’s honor and value are ignored, people’s rights are trampled, their lands are usurped and their progress is impeded while there exists no world authority to stand up to the bullying states and defend the rights of the oppressed, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here on Wednesday.

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• 5 April

  President Awards Medal of Courage to Border Guard Commander

  Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad awarded a third degree medal of courage to the commander of Iran’s southwest coast guards, Captain Abol-Ghassem Amangah.

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• 4 April

  Karzai says to ban terrorism in all forms

  Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai told a South Asia summit that extremism and terrorism in all forms, as well as its sponsorship and funding, should be banned. Speaking Tuesday at the summit of the eight-nation South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation in India’s capital of New Delhi, Karzai warned, “It is …

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• 4 April

  New party challenges Karzai dominance

    Dubai: As Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai takes centre stage in the Indian capital New Delhi as the newest member of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc), his opponents back home have launched a broadside against him by forming a political party that brings together all his main …

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• 2 April

  Children dead in suicide raid on Afghan army, Taliban hangs ‘spies’

  Nine people, five of them children, have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on an army convoy in Afghanistan, according to local police. Elsewhere the Taliban publicly hanged three men after accusing them of spying for British troops. With the approach of spring, violence has surged in Afghanistan in …

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• 2 April

  Freed British resident talks of hopelessness at Guantánamo

  The brother of a London man freed from Guantánamo Bay after four years of imprisonment yesterday told of his family’s joy at finally being reunited with their loved one. Bisher al-Rawi returned to British soil late on Friday, four and a half years after being seized in the Gambia and …

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• 2 April

  Brown boosts credentials in flying visit to front line

  Anthony Browne, Chief Political Correspondent Gordon Brown enhanced his image as a prime-minister-in-waiting by making an unannounced one-day visit to British troops in Afghanistan and telling them that they were fighting on one of the “front lines against international terrorism”. The Chancellor made his first trip to the country accompanied …

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• 2 April

  Taliban deploy thousands of suicide bombers: commander

  By Saeed Ali Achakzai Apr 2, 2007 — SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Thousands of Taliban suicide bombers have been deployed across Afghanistan to attack Western troops and the government, the group’s military chief said on Monday. Following last year’s violence, the worst since the Taliban’s ouster in 2001, this year …

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• 1 April

  Masterul de Studii de Securitate al UNIBUC organizeaza Dezbaterea:

  Professor. Stephen Blank (SUA) – luni, 2 apr. , 17.00 hrs, Sociologie, Schitu Magureanu nr 9, Sala Consiliu: tema propusa : “NATO-Russia Relationships: Prospects for Improving stability and Security in the Black Sea and the Caucasus”. O persp. americana asupra zonei, eventualitatea extinderii NATO (Ucraina, Georgia, Moldova), reactia Rusiei si …

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