APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East articles from January 2006

APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East archives from January 2006

IRAQ - The Challenges Of Terrorism - Part 5E - Towards A New Iraqi Government.(Brief Article)
January 2, 2006... Elections to Iraq's first four-year House of Representatives were held on Dec. 15 in a largely orderly situation and the day was remarkably calm as it was safe for the people to cast their votes, even in the war-torn western province of Anbar....

IRAQ - Horse-Trading Begins.
January 2, 2006... While politicians started power-sharing talks between Shi'ite, Kurdish and Sunni leaders which may lead to a way out of the crisis, about 5,000-10,000 demonstrators representing Sunni Arab and secular Shi'ite groups marched through Baghdad on...

IRAQ - Blair's View.
January 2, 2006... British PM Tony Blair says a phased withdrawal of UK troops from Iraq could begin within six months. During a lightning visit to Basra last week, his fourth in the past 12 months, he held out the prospect of a pullout beginning in the first...

IRAQ - Pan-Islamism Vs Pluralism.
January 2, 2006... Liberal Arabs say the one thing on which the US should be concentrating is the struggle between the advocates of pan-Islamism and those of pluralism. This is going on in Egypt as well as in Iran, Iraq, Syria, the six GCC states notably...

IRAQ - From Infancy To Maturity?(Brief Article)
January 2, 2006... For more than two years, the progress in Iraq has often appeared to be in a holding pattern - waiting for an election, the training of more Iraqi troops, or a waning of the insurgency. Yet many of the variables for progress are at last clicking...