World Feb 18, 2013

'11 arms market declined for first time since 1994

For the first time since the mid-1990s, sales of the 100 biggest arms dealers, excluding China, declined in 2011 as the economic crisis prompted budget cuts, a Stockholm-based think tank says.

Politics & Diplomacy | Focus Feb 10, 2013

In echo of Arab Spring, protests in Iraq surge

This restive Sunni town, the first to rebel against U.S. troops a decade ago, is rising up once again, this time against the government the Americans left behind. In an echo of the Arab Spring protests that have overturned regimes elsewhere in the region, ...