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| Features  What Will U.S. Troops Do In Iraq Now? As of September 1, the 50,000 U.S. troops remaining in Iraq officially begin a new mission: not fighting but "advising and assisting." But what exactly does that mean? More  Porn Again: Filmmaker Chooses Belarus's Beleaguered Lukashenka As Next Target Director Aleksandr Valov has made a career out of mocking foreign leaders who have fallen out of favor with the Kremlin. Now he is turning his lens on Belarusian strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenko. More  Kyrgyz Talks On OSCE Police Continue A government spokesman says Kyrgyzstan is still in talks about the deployment of an international police mission agreed in the wake of deadly ethnic clashes earlier this year. More  'New Dawn' Kicks Off In Iraq U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Robert Gates have presided over the launch of Operation New Dawn, the U.S. military's postcombat mission to "assist and advise" Iraqi forces. More  Azerbaijan Says Five Killed In Nagorno-Karabakh Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry has announced that three Armenian and two Azerbaijani soldiers have been killed in clashes near the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. More  Central Bank Says Kabul Bank Safe Afghanistan's central bank has dismissed media reports that Kabul Bank, the country's largest private bank, is on the verge of collapse due to the murky financial dealings of its top managers. More  Middle East Talks To Restart Further strains have been placed on the relaunch of Middle East peace talks following the shooting deaths of four Israelis, including a pregnant woman, in the West Bank in an attack claimed by the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement. More  Blair Speaks Of Iraqi 'Nightmare' Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, says he’s "sorry" and has cried over soldiers and civilians who were killed in the Iraq war. More  Lone Student Opts For Belarusian In Eastern City Only one of the first-grade students who started school on September 1 in the city of Mahileu in eastern Belarus opted for a class in which teaching is conducted in Belarusian, not Russian More  Russian Eco-Activists' Website Hacked The website of Russia's Khimki Forest Defenders movement has been attacked by hackers and is accessible only intermittently. More  Iran Political Prisoner's Condition 'Grave' Arjang Davudi was arrested in 2003 on charges of founding a political group called The Freedom Movement of Iranians. He is currently serving a 10-year sentence in Tehran's Gohardasht prison. More The Week In Facebook RFE/RL presents a Facebook-style summary of last week's events. More Dushanbe is awaiting a Russian decision on the possible extradition of a wealthy Tajik businessman on the run since 2007 who was just arrested in the Khamovniki district of Moscow. The timing is being questioned. More  Video: Kyrgyzstan's Bittersweet National Day Kyrgyzstan on August 31 celebrated 19 years of independence from the Soviet Union. The ceremonies in the capital, Bishkek, were subdued, and President Roza Otunbaeva appeared tearful as she commemorated the victims of June's ethnic violence. More  Zionists Waiting To Kill Hidden Imam, Says Iranian Cleric Mojtaba Zolnour, deputy representative of Iran's supreme leader in the Revolutionary Guard, has said that "Zionists" are waiting for the Hidden Imam to appear to kill him. More  Umarov Names New Daghestan Front Commander Self-styled leader of the Caucasus emirate Doku Umarov has named a commander from southern Daghestan to succeed Magomedali Vagabov (aka Seyfullakh Gubdensky) as emir of the Daghestan front. Vagabov had occupied that post for only five weeks before being killed in a counterterrorism operation in the village of Gunib in central Daghestan. More |
