US and Kyrgyz negotiators reach a deal on Manas:Kyrgyzstan said on Tuesday it would temporarily allow the US to continue using a military air base on its territory that is critical to coalition forces fighting the Taliban in neighbouring Afghanistan.Kadyrbek Sarbayev,...
I've been hearing rumors to the effect that US negotiators have cut a deal with the Kyrgyz government to allow continued use of Manas. But media sources remain silent, except to note that the...
It remains unclear whether the Kyrgyz government really wants the US out of Manas or whether it wants to extract higher rents. Rob Farley comments that the "United States has been paying...
Breaking reports, if true, vindicate a manuscript Alex Cooley and I wrote last year.* Whatever pleasure I get from saying "I told you so," however, is outweighed by my concern about the...