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• Mullen: U.S.-Afghan Relationship Will Endure

  26/07/2010 – In Afghanistan, Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says the U.S. is working with Afghanistan to provide a seamless transition when American forces leave the country (AP)

  
  

• Inside Story – Iraq’s political wrangling

  22/07/2010 – Iyad Allawi, the former Iraqi prime minister whose Iraqiya coalition won 91 seats in the country’s March parliamentary election, has sought support to form a government from Moqtada al-Sadr, the Iranian-backed Iraqi Shia leader. What would it take for Allawi and al-Sadr to form a political alliance? And to what extent are outside forces hindering or aiding the process? (al-Jazeera English)

  
  

• Has Syria changed for the better?

  17/07/2010 – It has been 10 years since Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s president, assumed leadership following his father’s death. He came into power promising many changes of freedom and growth to a country that was largely ruled with an iron fist. Has he delivered on his promises of change? (al-Jazeera English)

  
  

• Ayatollah Fadlallah Speaks Against Terrorism

  13/07/2010 – In a recent documentary, Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, spoke against killing innocent people and terrorism

  
  

• Gaza farmers risk being shot

  12/07/2010 – As a Libyan backed aid ship sails for the Gaza Strip, another group of international activists has been defying the blockade, but this time on the land. Foreigners acting as human shields have been helping farmers in Gaza harvest their crops. About 30 per cent of Gaza’s arable land is on the border with Israel and the area has been declared a buffer zone by the Israeli army. Palestinian farmers risk being shot with live fire for working their fields (al-Jazeera English)

  
  

• Lebanon mourns death of Shia “spiritual leader”

  05/07/2010 – Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, a founding figure and one-time spiritual leader of Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia political party, has passed away at 75 in a hospital in Beirut, Lebanon.
  Thousands across the world are mourning the death of one of Shia Islam’s most influential scholars (al-Jazeera English)

  
  

• Riz Khan – Egypt’s Gaza crisis

  30/06/2010 – Has Gaza’s humanitarian disaster become a political crisis for Egypt? A look at Egypt’s policies towards Gaza and whether or not its traditional leadership role is being eclipsed as a result (al-Jazeera English)

  
  

• U.S. General in Afghan War Risks Losing Job

  23/06/2010 – The White House summoned Gen. Stanley McChrystal to Washington to explain disparaging comments in a forthcoming Rolling Stone magazine article about his commander in chief and President Barack Obama’s top aides. (AP)

  
  

• Iran executes Jundallah leader

  21/06/2010 – The leader of Jundallah, an Iranian Sunni Muslim group that has been engaged in an insurgency against the Iranian government for years, has been hanged in public in Tehran, the capital. Abdulmalek Rigi, who was executed on Sunday, was the government’s public enemy number one. He was accused of being behind several attacks since 2005 that have killed more than 150 people, including security personnel and civilians.
  Jundallah says it is fighting for the rights of Sunnis, who they claim are discriminated against and oppressed in the Shia dominated country (al-Jazeera English)

  
  

• A Sop? Israel ‘easing’ Gaza land blockade, sea routes closed

  18/06/2010 – Israel says it’s easing its land blockade of Gaza, hoping to quell international criticism over the country’s attack on ships carrying aid to the region. However, the naval cordon that was at the root of the deadly raid last month, will remain in place. (Russia Today)