Afghanistan

...he believed in. To O'Neill and his lieutenants in the congressional leadership, however, the question of Afghanistan was never more than an afterthought to their desire to defeat Reagan's policies in Central America. Crile quotes a...

In this article: Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, Tip O'Neill, George Crile, Red Army, Nicaragua, and U.S.

...Middle East, earthquakes in Mexico City, Guatemala and Armenia, civil strife in Central America, and post 9/11 developments in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He covered Pope John Paul II on his world trips for 25 years. A graduate of the...

In this article: Tribune, Chicago, University of Missouri School of Journalism, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Maine West High School, Chicago Sun-Times, and Chicago Tribune

...Whip. During his years with Congressional Leadership he was involved with conflicts ranging from Central America and opposing the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to supporting freedom in Eastern Europe and world trade issues. Mr....

In this article: Intelligence Identities Protection Act, Lloyd Bentsen, Central America, and Eastern Europe

McCaffrey Sees 2007 as a Crucial Year "We are now in a race against time." When retired Army Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey visited Afghanistan in February for meetings with 23 senior Western and local military, intelligence and political...

In this article: Barry R. McCaffrey, U.S., NATO, 1991 Persian Gulf War, Opium, Afghan National Army, Heroin, and U.S. Air Force

...largest economy. China has moved aggressively to fill a vacuum left by the United States in recent years, as the U.S. focused on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and struggled with the global economic crisis. Brazil stretching clout to...

In this article: Brazil, Petrobras, Tax, Latin America, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Central America, United States, Rio de Janeiro, China, and Allegation

...cartels are not strictly cartels proper. Drug cartels operate in many countries throughout Latin America, including Mexico, Brazil, Central America and Colombia, and in Afghanistan and South Asia. Some cartels are even establishing...

In this article: Chihuahua, Colombia, and Matamoros, Tamaulipas

A veteran United Nations negotiator who brokered peace talks in Central America and East Timor, he worked as the U.N.'s mediator on Afghanistan in 2000, and as the U.N.'s Special Representative in Kabul after the Taliban's collapse in late...

In this article: Taliban, Newsweek International, United Nations, Al Qaeda, Kabul, Princeton University, European Union, and United States

...under fire within minutes of the fall of the Saddam statue. Other major stories covered by Pitts include Hurricane Katrina, the war in Afghanistan, the military buildup in Kuwait, the Florida fires, the Elian Gonzalez story, the Florida...

In this article: Emmy Award, Hurricane Katrina, Iraq War, Archbishop Curley High School, Ohio Wesleyan University, Chicago, and Kosovo

...enemy and get out. It appears to me that Obama understands that the conflict with Iraq and Afghanistan are proxy wars, just like clashes in Vietnam and Central America, it is a bloody debate over ideals and culture. Then it was Communism,...

In this article: Stanley McChrystal, Islam, Communism, MoveOn.org, Iraq, and White House