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...that the Tigers have been defeated, governments and security forces around the world may try to learn from the success of the Sri Lanka government. President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his army have turned the conventional wisdom on fighting insurgencies on its head, adopting strategies and tactics long discredited, both in the battlefield and in the military classroom. Since they appear to have worked against the Tigers, other countries wracked by insurgencies - from Pakistan to Sudan to Algeria - may be tempted to follow suit. But Rajapaksa's triumph has come at a high cost in civilian lives and a sharp decline...
...held the highest Cabinet position is Massoumeh Ebtekar - better known to American television viewers of 30 years ago as "Mary," the students' spokeswoman during the U.S. embassy hostage crisis in Tehran. She was appointed by reformist President Mohammad Khatami as his Vice President as well as the head of the Department of Environment...
...believe in 100% gender equality," Bayat told TIME in her office as head of a governmental institute of higher education. "We believe in the equality of opportunities." How then does she qualify to run for the presidency? She argues that she has held important political positions as well as fulfilled her role as a mother of three children. "They should take that into consideration," she said, sitting behind an image of revolutionary founder Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini (commonly referred to as the Imam in Iran) and current Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. Disappointed but not surprised by the ruling, she said...
...John Yettaw crazy or just eccentric? The answer is not quite clear, as the Missouri man remains in a Burmese prison charged with a head-scratching nighttime swim that has imperiled one of the world's best-known democracy figures. Yettaw, 53, is accused of strapping on homemade flippers and illegally swimming to the Rangoon home of Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader held under house arrest for 13 of the past 19 years. Relatives say he made the same swim last year, for reasons that are still murky, but was turned away. Suu Kyi, 63 and in poor...
...door bankrolled an extension linking Herat city to Afghanistan's remote northern provinces. Later this year, a host of Iranian-built schools, clinics and industrial parks around the city will be connected to the Iranian interior thanks to an $80 million railroad spur currently under construction. Homayoun Azizi, the head of Herat's provincial council, says he's grateful for the "huge impact" Iran has had in accelerating economic growth in the region, "But," he asks, raising an eyebrow, "what are they doing beneath it all?" (See pictures from Afghanistan's dangerous Korengal Valley...