A former Iranian deputy defence minister who disappeared from Turkey last month had been spying on Iran for Western intelligence since 2003, a newspaper reported Sunday, citing Iranian sources. The Sunday Times said Ali Reza Asghari, who once commanded the Revolutionary Guards, was recruited by a foreign intelligence officer during an overseas business trip around [...]

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On March 9, a large protest involving farmers from China’s Hunan Province broke into a riot. The problem began as the Anda Bus Company doubled ticket prices during the Chinese New Year—an important Chinese holiday where people throughout the country travel to see friends and relatives.
Local farmers demonstrated outside the bus company to protest the [...]

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Discernible beyond the topicality of Cheney’s jockeying is the emerging outline of some potential power play across greater East Asia. Chinese analysts such as Wei Ling have observed that Japan and even India are altering their military strategies and doctrines to re-position themselves in the current context of a rising China.
India is gradually making [...]

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Shin Bet Director Yuval Diskin was quoted Tuesday as saying that Hamas has sent hundreds of men to Iran for prolonged training periods.
Diskin was speaking to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
“Hundreds of Hamas members have been sent to Iran for training, and not training periods of a week, two weeks or a [...]

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“A message has been communicated to anyone who wants to speak out against the Kremlin: ‘If you do, no matter who you are, where you are, we will find you and we will silence you in the most horrible way possible.’”
Those words come from an interview broadcast on NBC’s Dateline on Feb. 26. They were [...]

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After the United States last month officially initiated talks with Poland and the Czech Republic about the installation of missile defense facilities in their territories, a heated political debate on the issue followed in Europe. The Pentagon plans to establish radar bases in the Czech Republic and interceptor missiles in Poland.
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THERE are, as Prime Minister John Howard asserts, many good reasons for Australia to pursue closer economic and military ties with Japan. “Japan is a great Pacific democracy, and it remains our best [resources] customer,” Howard said at the weekend. “Australia has no closer partner or friend in the Asia-Pacific area than Japan.”
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March 13, 2007: China has begun sea trials for its new Type 094 SSBNs (Ballistic Missile Nuclear Submarines). The 094 is based on the Type 093 SSN (nuclear attack sub.) Having already sent the first two new, 7,000 ton, 093 class SSNs to sea, China was apparently underwhelmed by their performance. Not much more is [...]

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Did you all read the report about Korea ten years from now, produced by the Progressive Politics Institute in Korea earlier this year? The report was written in Korean and titled “Korean Society to Be Divided into Two Extreme Factions in 2017.’’ I think it is an interesting and provocative document, pointing out ten areas [...]

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“No matter the severity of the naval and air attack, the U.S. will never be able to occupy Iran, and no matter Bush’s wishful thinking, the people of Iran will not turn against their elected government and welcome deliverance by the United States. Not only should Bush have learned this lesson from his own invasion [...]

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has seen signs in recent days that North Korea is preparing to shut down its Yongbyon nuclear complex as called for under a six-country agreement, a U.S. official said on Monday, but other officials were more cautious.
“It looks as though the North Koreans are preparing to shut down the [...]

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