By empty (8/23/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Chairman of the Afghanistan International Chamber of Commerce (AICC) Azarakhsh Hafizi has stressed the need for boosting trade ties between Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. He was addressing a meeting comprising representatives of private sectors of the two countries. The meeting was also attended by officials of the Uzbek embassy in Kabul.

By empty (8/22/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

The U.S. administration supports the Georgian government\'s insistence on the withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers from the conflict zones in Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali district, U.

By empty (8/22/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Part of an oil pipeline in Russia\'s North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia was damaged early Tuesday in a suspected terrorist attack. Two explosions went off simultaneously, causing an oil spill and fire, local police said. \"[Suspected] criminals planted two powerful hollow-charge devices on the pipeline, and both detonated almost simultaneously,\" a police spokesman said, adding that it took firefighters three hours to extinguish a 20-meter-high pillar of fire near the village of Voznesenskaya.