News & views on RFE/RL's broadcast regionIran's Nuclear Program#
Turkey credits Obama for striking the deal
# World powers agreed on a
framework for new sanctions on Iran# "
Hillary at the Buzzer" - Editorial, "The Wall Street Journal"
# "
Iran, the Deal, and the Council" - Editorial, "The New York Tiimes"
Afghanistan# The
U.S. military is paying Afghan farmers, to mixed results
# "The National" reports on
China and India in Afghanistan# "
Ground Realities" - Editorial, "Dawn"
Pakistan# "
Journalists: A Struggle for Survival" - Syed Irfan Ashraf, "Dawn"
# Pervez Musharraf is
mulling a return to politics#
James Jones and Leon Panetta are in Pakistan
# "
The Taliban's Sympathizers" - Zafar Hilaly, "The Express Tribune"
# "
Counterinsurgency Gone Bad" - Abramowitz & Pippenger, "National Interest"
Russia# Mikhail Khordokovsky has gone
on a hunger strike# "
From Putin's Frown to Medvedev's Smile" - Fyodor Lukyanov, "Moscow Times"
# Russia
wants to cooperate with the U.S. in space
# "
The Russian Game" - Carl Schreck, "Foreign Policy"
Of Interest# "
Left Behind in Iraq" - Kirk Johnson, "Foreign Policy"
# "
The Real Yanukovich" - Edward Chow & Taras Kuzio, "Moscow Times"
# "The New York Times" editorializes on
Iraq's government
U.S. Politics/Foreign Policy# "The Daily Beast"
profiles Gillian Tett# Fred Kaplan on
Republican resistance to the START treaty