Viewed from Washington, Turkey and Iran are strange bedfellows. One is a NATO member with a Constitution that mandates secularism, and the other, an Islamic republic whose nuclear program has been one of the most vexing foreign policy problems for the United States in recent years.

• Date: 14.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from wn.com

President Hu Jintao and his Uzbek counterpart pledged on Wednesday to jointly combat terrorism, a major concern for both countries.

• Date: 10.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 10.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from chinadaily.com.cn/

Suspected militants have attacked a NATO convoy outside Pakistan's capital Islamabad, killing at least seven people. The convoy was carrying supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. But similar attacks in the past have been blamed on the Taliban.

• Date: 10.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 10.06.2010  |  Security  |  from Deutsche Welle

Leaders of Russia, Turkey and Iran convened at a security summit meeting in Istanbul on Tuesday in a display of regional power that appeared to be calculated to test the United States just one day before a scheduled U.S.-backed debate in the U.N. Security Council on imposing tighter sanctions over Iran's nuclear program.

• Date: 09.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 09.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from seattletimes.com

Iran faces its toughest sanctions for failing to comply with UN demands over its nuclear enrichment, the US says.

• Date: 09.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 09.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from bbc.co.uk

President Barack Obama promised in a letter released on Monday to tackle "serious issues" straining relations with Azerbaijan, an important link in Afghan supply lines and energy export routes to the West.

• Date: 08.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 08.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from reuters.com

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived here today to express U.S. gratitude to this former Soviet republic on the western shore of the Caspian Sea for its contributions to the coalition’s efforts in Afghanistan.

• Date: 07.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 07.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from globalsecurity.org

Israel has begun expelling the latest group of activists detained for trying to break the Gaza blockade. Meanwhile, Israel's ambassador to the US has rejected a probe into an earlier deadly raid on a Gaza aid flotilla.

• Date: 07.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 07.06.2010  |  Security  |  from Deutsche Welle