APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula articles from November 2007

APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula archives from November 2007

Pax Americana In Iraq Is Changing - Part 17 - Al-Qaeda Is On The Run.
November 12, 2007... Three developments have converged to mark what Bush officials call a positive turn in Pax Americana for Iraq: steady defeats for al-Qaeda in this country to a point they are pushed to the north-eastern and north-western borders; an announcement...

Focus On North Africa.
November 12, 2007... Al-Qaeda is consolidating its presence in North Africa with the announcement that leaders of a Libyan Neo-Salafi group have pledged allegiance to it. Western officials are closely watching al-Qaeda's expansion into North Africa, where new...

Bush-Erdogan Accord.
November 12, 2007... Receiving PM Erdogan at the White House, President Bush on Nov. 5 moved to step up military co-operation in an effort to dissuade Ankara from launching a big incursion into northern Iraq to hunt down Kurdish (PKK) rebels. Bush offered...

Iranian Consulates In Kurdistan - US-Iran Talks To Resume.
November 12, 2007... In a sign of an easing of tensions with Tehran, the head of KRG's foreign relations, Falah Mustafa Bakir, on Nov. 6 said Iran had formally opened a consulate in Erbil. He said: "Today the Islamic Republic of Iran opened its consulate office,...

US Preparing To Hit Iran?
November 12, 2007... The Damascus-based political leader of Hamas, Khaled Mesh'al, on Nov. 5 told reporters: The US-sponsored Israeli-Palestinian peace conference near Washington planned for later this year was meant to distract the region as Washington prepared...

Former Shi'ite Officials Accused In Hospital Deaths.
November 12, 2007... The New York Times on Nov. 5 reported US officials advising the Iraqi judiciary as saying an Iraqi judge had ruled that there was enough evidence to try two former Shi'ite officials in the Health Ministry in the killing and kidnapping of...

2.3M Displaced.
November 12, 2007... The Iraqi Red Crescent on Nov. 5 said nearly 2.3m Iraqis, the vast majority women and children, had fled their homes but remained inside the country and were in urgent need of basic care. The number of such internally displaced people in...

US Casualties Fall.
November 12, 2007... Six US soldiers on Nov. 5 were killed in three separate attacks, taking the number of deaths this year to 852 and making 2007 the deadliest year of the war for American troops. But in recent months the numbers have declined. Five of the US...