Operations
Other Conflicts
Defense Policy / Programs
News Reports

Current Operations

• Iraq: Governing Council Member Shot, Critically Wounded RFE/RL 20 Sep 2003 -- Gunmen opened fire today on a car carrying one of three women on Iraq's U.S.-appointed Governing Council, seriously wounding her and at least three others.

Other Conflicts

• BOSNIA/MONUMENT VOA 20 Sept 2003-- Former President Bill Clinton appealed for tolerance among Bosnia's Muslims, Serbs and Croats as he participated in the dedication of a memorial in the town of Srebrenica to the victims of Europe's worst massacre since World War Two.
• BURMA / SUU KYI VOA 20 Sept 2003-- Doctors in Burma say an operation performed on democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi turned up no sign of cancer, and she is now up and about
• INDONESIA / ACEH CONFLICT VOA 20 Sept 2003-- A report by a human rights group urges the Indonesian government to allow humanitarian organizations into the war-torn province of Aceh

Defense Policy / Programs

• BERLIN SUMMIT / EUROPE VOA 20 Sept 2003-- The leaders of Europe's three most powerful countries called on European Union members to adopt a draft E-U constitution and for the continent to beef up regional defense

News Reports

• JAPAN / ELECTION VOA 20 Sept 2003-- Junichiro Koizumi has been re-elected as leader of Japan's dominant Liberal Democratic Party, setting the stage for a general election before the end of the year