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Al-Qaeda

Osama bin Laden's Network of Terror Al-Qaeda's leader, Osama bin Laden Related Links Remembering September 11 Al-Qaeda Offshoots Suspected al-Qaeda Terrorist Acts Terrorist…

Kurdish History Timeline

by Borgna Brunner Related Links Turkey | Map KurdistanIraq Primer The Kurds have lived in a mountainous, roughly 74,000-square-mile region known as Kurdistan for the past two millennia…

Russia vs. Chechnya: Round Two

The crisis moves west by Sarah K. Miller This article was posted on October 8, 1999. Russian soldiers, fighting for control of Chechnya, carry a gun near Grozny on Oct. 8, 1999. (…

Russian Revolution: The October Revolution

The October Revolution Revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky Related Links Russian Revolution: OriginsRussian Revolution: 1905 RevolutionRussian Revolution: February RevolutionWhy is the…

Defining Genocide

  by Borgna Brunner     genocide: from the Greek genos, meaning race; and the Latin suffix -cidium, meaning killing Related Links Encyclopedia:GenocideHolocaust…

Arms Sales to Developing Nations

In 2011, leading manufacturers in the highly competitive global arms market sought higher profits and expanded political influence in weapons sales to developing nations. The…

2004 World History

Viktor Yushchenko (1954– )   2004 Former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow pleads guilty to defrauding Enron (Jan. 13). Bush proposes ambitious space program that includes flights to the Moon, Mars…

Iraq Timeline: 2009

  by Beth Rowen 1920s–1999 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009 • 2010 • Jan. 1, 2009 The Iraqi government takes control of the Green Zone, the heavily fortified…

Things Get Rough in Kashmir

50 years later the struggle continues by Ben Snowden This article was posted in June, 1998. "If we want to save not only South Asia from nuclear war, but the world as a whole,…