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...Karachi. Until this past week, they have resisted mounting attacks in the city, preferring to use the sprawling metropolis as a base for recruiting, smuggling weapons and racketeering for funds. Now there is fear that the city's Pashtun-speaking communities (where the Taliban find refuge) may come into conflict with Karachi's huge Urdu-speaking majority...
While General Stanley McChrystal drew praise for recalibrating U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan, the cost of the conflict kept being hammered home. In October, 58 U.S. soldiers were killed, the highest monthly tally since the war began in 2001. President Obama's plan to commit 30,000 more troops before beginning a drawdown in July 2011 led critics to question the logic of fighting a war that cannot, perhaps, be cleanly...
Some 14,000 people have been killed since President Felipe Calderón declared war on Mexico's drug cartels three years ago, sparking a brutal conflict that showed no sign of easing in 2009. Battered border cities like Juárez witnessed up to a dozen or more murders a day amid fighting between drug gangs and government forces--and, just as often, among rival cartels. Meanwhile, corruption in the ranks of police, army and government officials is so endemic that some analysts have declared the nation of 110 million a failed state. The U.S. has pledged $1.4 billion over three...
...mediators, Hamas and Israel are negotiating a prisoner swap in which Shalit would be returned in exchange for the release of more than 900 Palestinians held in Israeli jails, many of them convicted of terrorism. Israeli and Palestinian sources tell TIME that the deal now depends on resolving the conflict between Israel's demand that many of the West Bank prisoners be expelled to Gaza or abroad and Hamas' insistence that they be allowed to return to their homes. (See pictures of Israel's deadly assault on Gaza...
There is also peace. The tsunami helped extinguish a decades-old conflict between Indonesian government troops and separatist rebels of the Free Aceh Movement (known as GAM by its initials in Bahasa Indonesian), who laid down their weapons in 2005. Despite sporadic political violence, Aceh's war is over. One enterprising local travel agent even offers "guerrilla tours" to GAM's former jungle strongholds...