ISW News Roundup - May 28, 2009
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Iraq
New York Times - Bomb Kills G.I. in Baghdad as Attacks Keep Rising, by Timothy Williams
Department of Defense - Brigade to Leave Southern Iraq 'A Much Better Place,' by Donna Miles
Washington Times - Pentagon Plans for Longer Iraq Deployment, by Tom Curley
RFE/RL - Iraq Starts Oil Exports From Kurdistan
Wall Street Journal - Iraq's South Oil Gets Third Leader in a Year
RFE/RL - Iraqi Parliament's Mission to Kirkuk Ends in Failure
Afghanistan
New York Times - 29 Militants Killed in Afghanistan, by Abdul Waheed Wafa and Alan Cowell
Department of Defense - Combined Forces Kill Five, Detain 10 in Afghanistan
Washington Times - Taliban Killing Afghan Students, Burning Schools, by James Palmer
Christian Science Monitor - U.S. to Spend $1 billion on Embassy Expansions in Pakistan, Afghanistan, by Saeed Shah and Warren P. Strobel
RFE/RL - U.S., UN Officials Urge Crackdown on Afghan Drug Lords, Corrupt Officials, by Ron Synovitz
Pakistan
New York Times - Taliban Claim Pakistan Bomb Attack, by Salman Masoon and Mark McDonald
Reuters - Bombs in Pakistan's Peshawar Kill Six, by Alamgir Bitani
Wall Street Journal - Taliban Wages War on Police in its New Front in Pakistan, by Matthew Rosenberg
Washington Post - Nuclear Aims by Pakistan, India Prompt U.S. Concern, by Jeffrey Smith and Joby Warrick
Washington Times - Middle-Class Pakistanis Awaken to Taliban Threat, by Nasir Khan
Region
Israel
New York Times - Israeli Settlement Growth Must Stop, Clinton Says, by Mark Landler and Isabel Kershner
Reuters - As Obama Meets Abbas, Israel Defends Settlements, by Matt Spetalnick
North Korea
VOA News - U.S. Lawmaker Confident China Will Help with North Korea, by Stephanie Ho
Washington Post - U.S., South Korea Raise Military Alert on North, by Blaine Harden
Military
Washington Times - Euro Force, NATO Overlap, by Leander Schaerlaeckens