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Concerned about potential terrorist attacks, Russia boosts security at missile launch sites

By RIA Novosti

What We Can Learn from Alber Saber’s Case

By Ahmed Naje

1.      Never Call the Police Alber Saber’s case may seem no different from other religious defamation trials that we have come to know about through the media. At the heart of it, however, this is not really a case about religious defamation, but rather is a personal attack during which religion happened to be defamed.

Kommersant: Plane intercepted by Turkey was carrying 12 crates of parts for Syrian missile defense

By AFP

From AFP:  Russia is in contact with Turkey to recover a cargo confiscated by Ankara from a Moscow-Damascus passenger plane but so far no progress has been made, a senior foreign ministry official said Wednesday.

Erdogan: EU will lose Turkey if it hasn’t joined by 2023

By Orhan Coskun, Reuters

From Orhan Coskun, Reuters:  The European Union will lose Turkey if it doesn’t grant it membership by 2023, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday.

Clinton to Bosnia: ‘We want to see you in NATO’

By Hillary Rodham Clinton, Department of State

From Hillary Rodham Clinton, Department of State:  The United States shares with the European Union a vision of a peaceful, stable, prosperous Bosnia-Herzegovina that is fully integrated into the Euro-Atlantic institutions.

Report on NATO’s Libya op reveals Denmark ‘bought munitions from Israel to bomb an Arab-world country’

By Gerard O'Dwyer, Defense News

From Gerard O’Dwyer, Defense News:  The accidental release of a Danish Defense Forces’ (DDF) report critical of NATO’s command structures and inability to direct bombing missions in Libya in 2011 has provoked political controversy, after it emerged the Danish Air Force bought munitions from Israel.

Let’s Wage Cross-Border Peace Now

By Shuja Nawaz

Hurry up and wait! This seems to be the order of the day as Pakistan and India take tentative steps towards normalcy.

What the US Risks by Relying on Drones

By Kurt Volker

 As documented in the recent Post series “The Permanent War,” the United States increasingly relies on drone strikes as a principal and permanent component in fighting global terrorism. This is effective at killing terrorist leadership and is relatively painless politically at home, as it does not require massive military engagements or put U.S. soldiers or […]