How many of them can we win? By Phillip Carter Posted Friday, Feb. 9, 2007, at 11:51 AM ET Thanks to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, I now have an answer: Our strategic stagnation results from the fact that we are fighting four wars, not o…

Giles Foden Saturday February 10, 2007Guardian Measuring Time by Helon Habila 383pp, Hamish Hamilton, £16.99 Twins, quadratures and syzygies have long been part of Nigerian literature and myth, usually as a challenge to views of society ba…

Mr Cannistraro, who worked for the CIA and the National Security Council, stressed that no decision had been made.Last month Mr Bush ordered a second battle group led by the aircraft carrier USS John Stennis to the Gulf in support of the U…

Veteran Africa activists, frustrated by the slow response from Sudan's government to international demands to ease the plight of refugees in Darfur, are regrouping to take their fight to the next level.A new group, calling itself Enough, h…

By Joshua Partlow Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, February 9, 2007; A14 BAGHDAD, Feb. 8 -- Iraqi and U.S. forces should not launch a military offensive against the militias -- most of them Shiite -- that are a major source of turmo…

Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul warned yesterday that a referendum planned this year on the status of the Iraqi city of Kirkuk should be canceled or else the outcome might widen the sectarian violence that has largely left the northe…

MUNICH, Feb. 10 ― President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia accused the United States on Saturday of provoking a new nuclear arms race by developing ballistic missile defenses, undermining international institutions and making the Middle East …

By Guy Dinmore in Washington and Vincent Boland in Ankara Published: February 9 2007 02:00 | Last updated: February 9 2007 02:00 Turkey's strained relationship with the Bush administration is likely to worsen after its foreign minister, Ab…

By Scott Wilson Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, February 11, 2007; A01 The Israeli government is funding the first construction of a Jewish settlement in the Old City's Muslim Quarter since taking control of it nearly four decades …

The US is to help fund efforts in Vietnam to clean up soil contaminated by the defoliant Agent Orange in a move hailed today as the first step in healing a long-running rift between the two former enemies.Washington's ambassador to Vietnam…