“The only thing these sand niggers understand is force and I’m about to introduce them to it.”
With Mr Musharraf’s departure – and, as it happens, the withdrawal of the Georgian contingent from Iraq to fight their own war – that coalition, as any sort of viable alliance, is no more. What we have is a United States in the throes of an election campaign that is likely to bring sharp changes […]
Almost half the global refugee population is accounted for by about 3m Afghans, mostly in Pakistan and Iran, and more than 2m Iraqis, mainly in Syria and Jordan. There are also about 500,000 refugees each from Colombia, Sudan and Somalia.
These figures exclude an estimated 4.6m Palestinian refugees, who are the responsibility of the […]