October 18th Morning Readbook

Insurgents Destroy 2 Bridges In Anbar
Attacks Pick Up In Western Iraq


Seven suspected Qaeda members go on trial in Yemen
A Yemeni court on Saturday opened the trial of seven suspected Al-Qaeda members charged with carrying out a spate of deadly attacks on government and Western targets in Sanaa.


Too early to send more US troops to Afghanistan: Kerry
US Senator John Kerry says it is "irresponsible" to send more US troops to Afghanistan at this time, amid a deepening election crisis that has placed the Kabul government's legitimacy at stake.


Nearly 50 years on, we're still fighting
India and China, often referred to as the elephant and the dragon, are currently embroiled in a mini-war of words over the status of Arunachal
Pradesh, the state that was at the core of the brief October 1962 border war between the two Asian giants. On October 20, 47 years ago, global attention was focused on the unfolding Cuban missile crisis and the eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation between US president John F Kennedy and his Soviet counterpart Nikita Khruschev. That was the time China, with Chairman Mao at the helm, decided to teach India a ‘lesson’.


Pakistan Starts Key Offensive Against Taliban