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Baby soldiers and peacekeeping in Kosovo: why choose the army?

('Alexandra Baxter',) — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:31:53 -0000

Tomi, a lively and remarkably blond 24-year-old Finn, speaks candidly about the six months he spent in Kosovo as a volunteer in the NATO-UN peacekeeping campaign. Along with 105 other young compatriots, among them four girls, he was deployed to the Balkans to serve for the UN

Mujahideen Khan: 'we do not know who the Taliban is right now'

('Nabeelah Shabbir',) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:00:00 -0000

Afghanistan remains a huge challenge for NATO. Whilst officials met in the Bucharest's Parliament Palace from 2-4 April, a group of Estonian journalists cast an eye back with a mujahideen in the Afghan mountains

More EU troops in Afghanistan

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:00:00 -0000

At the NATO summit from 2-4 April, France pledged 1000 troops, alongside promises from Italy and Poland. From Britain, 450 soldiers will join the 7, 700 UK troops in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand Province

Jeta Xharra: ‘Kosovo's status is not a solution to everything’

('Nabeelah Shabbir',) — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:00:00 -0000

Playwright, journalist and Kosovo's answer to Jeremy Paxman - the ‘pushy, irritating’ TV presenter as she describes herself, 29, exposes local politicians in a society she vouches is 'fed-up'

UNMIKistan

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:00:00 -0000

Independent or not, today the people of Kosovo want only one thing: the end of the United Nations’ ‘occupation’ of their territory

Interwar Lebanon tightens its belt

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:00:00 -0000

In pre-civil war ambience, how are the Lebanese making a living?

Kosovo's future lies within Europe

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:00:00 -0000

On Feb 27 in Belgrade, 15, 000 Serbs protested against the UN's plans for

independence from Serbia. What do Serbs and Albanians think about Kosovar identity?

Newsha Tavakolian, Iran's inside story

('Kate Stansfield',) — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:48:00 -0000

At the inauguration of Perpignan's 19th festival ‘Visa pour l'image’, the Iranian photojournalist focuses on the situation of women in the Middle East

Piergiorgio Rosetti: Peace as a political instrument

Mon, 23 Jan 2006 02:37:00 -0000

The case for a European peace-corps is the strongest it’s ever been, Piergiorgio Rosetti tells Café Babel.

Milosevic at The Hague

('Francesca Reinhardt',) — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 04:59:00 -0000

A victory for human rights or for western hypocrisy?