The latest spate of violent incidents in Afghanistan is set to increase pressure in America and Europe for a quicker end to the mission in the country.

Thirty years after the end of the war with Iraq the leadership of the Islamic Republic faces many of the same challenges that it faced during the war with Iraq, but this time, not even Ayatollah Rafsanjani may be capable of defending the regime against its own mismanagement.

This is the Persian translation of Ali Alfoneh's September 30 article, "The War over the War."

Hugo Chavez has consolidated his power in the Venezuela, but his authority may have already crested.

President Aleksandr Lukashenko's regime in Belarus has long been a target of US criticism - and the Bush administration clearly has it on its radar.

Urging the West to act, Lady Thatcher said: "Tyranny must not prevail."

Истребители ВВС Чехии барражируют в небе над Прагой. Пожилым МИГам предстоит заняться делом, которое их советским конструкторам не могло привидеться и в страшном сне. Самолеты будут обеспечивать безопасность участников встречи НАТО в верхах.

На ней, как образно выразился один из сотрудников секретариата альянса,...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said he is glad to see "an administration which is known to be a radically anti-Communist, pro-freedom and pro-free-trade administration", such as today's US Bush administration, in power.