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...military uprising seemed to be "coordinated with Russia" and aimed at causing "military riots at different places all over Georgia to make sure at the minimum that the NATO training [exercise due to begin shortly] in Georgia would not happen and at the maximum that there would be a full-scale military riot in the country," Shota Utiashvili, an Interior Ministry spokesman, said on Tuesday. Russia denied the charges, with Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin calling them "delusional" and alleging that "the Georgian leadership is trying to blame their internal political problems on Russia." (See pictures of last year...
...Both government and opposition figures in Georgia have recently voiced concern that the U.S. has begun to turn away from the country after the Obama Administration sought to rebuild ties with Moscow, though NATO remains critical of Russia's role there. After an agreement was signed last week in Moscow formalizing the role of 500 Russian border guards in patrolling the borders of South Ossetia and Georgia's other breakaway republic of Abkhazia, NATO responded by calling the document a "clear contravention" of the cease-fire that ended the war between Russia and Georgia last August...
...alliance among the nations that support the military cooperation of NATO has not extended to a set of economic bonds that are even more important as the global financial crisis claims victims in countries such as Ireland and the old Eastern European block. That gives Asia an advantage as the recession continues...
...Afghan government has hurt its own cause in the past by making little to no effort to engage the media, leaving the Taliban to dominate the narrative. While NATO typically issues a brief statement within a day or so of an insurgent attack, Rahimullah Samandar, head of the Afghan Independent Journalists Association, points out that the Kabul government stays silent, even as Taliban spokesmen reach out to information-starved media outlets with detailed accounts in real-time. "The Taliban has been filling in the gaps," he says...
...grueling, bloody, and brutal guerrilla war between the U.S.-backed Pakistani government and the Taliban. Three broken cease-fires and thousands of deaths later, the two sides are no closer to resolving their quarrel over control of the disputed territory. In the past year alone, Taliban fighters have attacked NATO supply convoys, the Sri Lankan cricket team on its visit to Lahore, and Pakistani outposts in the region...