Tag Archives: NATO
Repercussions of Algerian gas field attack Al-Qaeda linked extremists carried out a deadly attack against the Algerian Amenas gas filed on 16 January. Reportedly, the strike was conducted in retaliation for the military intervention France has initiated in its former … read more »
Posted in Algeria, Article, Mali, North Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Algeria, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mali, Middle East, NATO, North Africa, Pakistan
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By Colin Todhunter In an increasingly media-driven age, language is everything and is often used by officialdom to tyrannise meaning. With the deaths of millions on its hands since 1945, the US has become the world’s number one terror state. … read more »
The French military intervention into Mali on Friday — France’s second in as many years into a former African colony — was reportedly “seconded” by the United States. This ought to come as no great surprise, given the Pentagon’s deepening … read more »
Posted in Article, Mali, West Africa
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Tagged France, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Libya, Mali, mali news, malian news, NATO, New York Times, Pentagon, United States
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By Ismail Salami As part of the sinister plan for Syria at work, French military agents have recently held face-to-face meetings with the foreign-backed militants inside the country in a bid to “assess the situation on the ground.” A report … read more »
Washington: US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney faced off on Monday in their last debate before the 6 November presidential election. Here is some fact-checking of claims made by the two candidates. Obama: Romney said there … read more »
Posted in America, World News
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Tagged Barack Obama, drone, IndepthAfrica, indepthafrica africa news, Iran, Iraq, Mali, Mitt Romney, NATO, obama, Romney, Syria, Tumor, United States
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By Stephen Lendman Washington’s war on Libya rages. Fighting didn’t stop after NATO said its seven-month 2011 “mission” ended. Ravaging a nonbelligerent country wasn’t good enough. Occupation harshness inflicts more pain. Jamahiriya Green Resistance is strong. Its struggle continues. It … read more »
October 23, 2012 will be exactly one year after the Chairperson of the National Transitional Council declared that the Liberation of Libya was complete. A few days later the Secretary General of NATO, General Anders Fogh Rasmussen declared the end … read more »
Posted in Article, Libya
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Tagged Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Benghazi, Bureau of Diplomatic Security, IndepthAfrica, indepthafrica africa news, indepthafrioca, Libya, National Transitional Council, NATO, State Department, United States
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The month of October 2011 stands as an historical monument to heroism and apocalypse in the Libyan desert as the people of Sirte, hometown to Col. Gaddafi, staged a desperate, doomed fight to protect their families and homes from the … read more »
Posted in Article, Libya, Thomas C. Mountain
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Tagged Democratic Party (Libya), Eritrea, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica world news, Libya, Libyan, Muammar Gaddafi, NATO, Sirte
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A French secret serviceman acting on the express orders of Nicolas Sarkozy is suspected of murdering Colonel Gaddafi, it was sensationally claimed today. He is said to have infiltrated a violent mob mutilating the captured Libyan dictator last year … read more »
By Audrey Charowa Zimbabwe’s 88year old President used his speech at the 67th Annual Security Council meeting at the United Nations in New York this week to attack NATO States as “Warmongers”. Although, they’ve killed far less people than Zimbabwe’s … read more »
Posted in Article, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica world news, Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, NATO, Robert Mugabe, United Nations, United Nations Security Council, Zimbabwe
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While re-affirming his country’s commitment to multilateralism and the role of the United Nations in dealing with international peace and security issues at the General Assembly, the President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, today called for steps to ensure that the … read more »
Harare – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said on Wednesday the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was as tragic as that of US Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, as he delivered a scathing critique of US, UN and Nato actions. … read more »
Kabul – A female suicide car bomber attacked a van in Kabul on Tuesday, killing 12 people, including eight South Africans, in an assault insurgents said was in revenge for an anti-Islam film made in America. The bombing on a … read more »
Posted in News, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged Afghan National Army, Afghan National Police, Afghanistan, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica African news, International Security Assistance Force, Kabul, NATO, Politics of Afghanistan, United States
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In the past two weeks at least nine Americans have been killed by their Afghan alliesin what is known to as “insider killings.” Members of the Afghan army, having been trained and armed by NATO forces, are turning their weapons … read more »
Two Afghan soldiers tried to gun down a group of NATO troops outside a military base in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, officials said. No international forces were killed, but one of the attackers was killed as NATO forces shot back. … read more »
Turkey already has troops in Syria and has threatened military action to protect the site they guard. A 1921 agreement between Ottoman Turkey and France (the Treaty of Ankara), the latter at the time the colonial administrator of Syria, guaranteed … read more »
Andrey ARESHEV After a stop in the Bosphorus a NATO naval group weighed anchor and sailed on to the Eastern Mediterranean nearing the Syrian shore in early July. Formally the mission (no US Navy ships in the composition of the … read more »
Gerald A. Perreira Muammar Qaddafi is dead and the Al Fateh revolution has been rolled back. Two months after his death, on October 2011, the imperialists, in collaboration with the Salafists in Tripoli and Khartoum, orchestrated the assassination of the … read more »
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Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR After months of tortuous negotiations with the United States, Pakistan has reopened the transit routes for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization convoys heading toward Afghanistan. The US rendered an apology, finally, for its massacre of 27 Pakistani soldiers … read more »
Posted in Asia, Global Issues, Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
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Tagged Afghanistan, Hillary Rodham Clinton, IndepthAfrica, ISLAMABAD, NATO, Pakistan, Pakistani, Pentagon, United States
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Libya seems well on its way to becoming the next Somalia, with much of the country already ruled by tribal/clan based armed militias. As was the case in Somalia, Libya is in the process of separation, with the eastern, oil … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Libya, News, North Africa, Thomas C. Mountain
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ABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban claimed responsibility on Monday for a roadside bombing that they said killed six American troops in a volatile part of eastern Afghanistan. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement the blast struck the U.S. … read more »
Libyans will vote in their first free national poll in more than half a century on Saturday amid fears that violence could taint an election meant to usher in a temporary national assembly and draw a line under Muammar Gaddafi’s … read more »
Posted in Libya, News, North Africa, Spotlight
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Two heavily armed regional powers — Turkey and Syria — are inching toward military conflict following the downing by Syria of an unarmed reconnaissance jet in international waters last week and the subsequent firing on rescue planes by Syria dispatched … read more »
Militants armed with explosive vests, assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades attacked the Spozhmai hotel near Qarga Lake, late on Thursday night. The assault, claimed by the Taliban, killed at least one policeman and there were unconfirmed reports of four civilians … read more »
Back in January Faiz Fathi Jfara of Bani Walid asked a simple question, “I just need an answer from NATO: Why did you destroy my home and kill my family?” NATO refuses to answer him. NATO went to war in … read more »
Posted in Article, Libya, News, North Africa
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Tagged Africa news, African news, HRW, Human Rights Watch, IndepthAfrica, International Criminal Court, Libya, Libyan, Muammar Gaddafi, NATO, New York Times
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Igor IGNATCHENKO In late 2011 Frederic C. Hof, one of the State Department`s point man on Syrian policy, equaled the Assad regime to ‘a dead man walking’. At the end of December, 2011, Hof joined a special secret committee set … read more »
Posted in Columnist, Europe, Global Issues
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Tagged Arab Spring, IndepthAfrica, Iraq, Kurdish, Kurdistan, Middle East, NATO, Syria, Turkey
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The scale of the ongoing tragedy visited on Libya by NATO and its allies is becoming horribly clearer with each passing day. Estimates of those killed so far vary, but 50,000 seems like a low estimate; indeed the British Ministry … read more »
Posted in Article, Libya, News, North Africa
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Tagged Africa news, African news, African Union, Central African Republic, Gaddafi, Great Manmade River, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Libya, NATO, United States
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The scale of the ongoing tragedy visited on Libya by NATO and its allies is becoming horribly clearer with each passing day. Estimates of those killed so far vary, but 50,000 seems like a low estimate; indeed the British Ministry … read more »
Posted in Article, Libya, News, North Africa
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Tagged Democratic Republic of Congo, Gaddafi, Great Manmade River, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, NATO, United States
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Awino Okech Three years ago when Tajudeen Abdul Raheem died in Nairobi, I met one of his many Nairobi-based friends a week later. In jest, he said to me: “Awino, before you die be sure to leave a list of … read more »
Posted in Article, News, Pan African News
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Tagged African Union, Egypt, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, NATO, South Africa, Tajudeen Abdul Raheem, Tunisia, World Social Forum
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When compared with the plans and pledges of recent summits, NATO’s goals for its upcoming summit in Chicagoseem small, even trivial. Let’s start with this year’s summit agenda. The over-arching theme is NATO’s new “Smart Defense” program. NATO describes Smart Defense … read more »
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