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ISW News Roundup - March 21, 2009
Mar 21, 2009 - Anonymous
Iraq
Washington Post - Iraq's Kurds Find Prosperity Breeds Distrust, by Sudarsan Raghavan
RFE/RL - Second Year Of Drought Devastates Iraqi Agriculture, by Charles Recknagel
Reuters - U.S. hands almost all Sunni guards to Iraqi control, by Tim Cocks
Associated Press - Iraqi budget woes force security hiring freeze, by Kim Gamel
RFE/RL - Iraqi Businesswomen Push For Government Support
RFE/RL - Thousands of Physicians Returning to Iraq
New York Times Baghdad Bureau - Leaving Iraq II - Learning English, by Sahar S. Gabriel
Associated Press - For tourists, seeing Iraq one checkpoint at a time, by Kim Gamel
International Herald Tribune - Travelers, your tour bus is boarding for Basra, by Campbell Robertson
Afghanistan and Pakistan
Reuters - U.N. envoy urges Obama to talk to Taliban: report
Reuters - Two blasts kill 7 Afghans, 1 policeman, by Rafeeq Shirzad
RFE/RL - Taliban Blamed For Attacks In Afghanistan's North, West
Washington Post - Allies 'Out Of Troops' In Afghan South, by Ann Scott Tyson
Reuters - U.S. plans major Afghan police boost: Holbrooke, by David Brunnstrom
Reuters - NATO commander sees Afghan security gains in 2010, by David Morgan
Long War Journal - Coalition and Taliban forces battle throughout Afghanistan, by Bill Roggio
Reuters - Four Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Associated Press - Suicide car bomber kills 6 in eastern Afghanistan, by Sebastian Abbot
Reuters - Indians, Pakistanis trade fire in Kashmir: Pakistan
Associated Press - CIA chief in Pakistan amid missile strike furor, by Stephen Graham
Region
Iran
Reuters - Iran to U.S.: "You change, our behavior will change", by Zahra Hosseinian and Fredrik Dahl
LA Times - Iran's Khamenei rebuffs Obama overture, by Borzou Daragahi and Ramin Mostaghim
Russia Militants
Reuters - Armed clashes kill 21 in Russia's Dagestan
Tajikistan
RFE/RL - Tajikistan To Receive U.S. Funds For Border Security
NATO
Reuters - U.S. backs Danish PM as next NATO chief: diplomats, by David Brunnstrom