Distinguished journalist Christian Caryl will lead RFE's efforts to step up news coverage from the nation's capital as he assumes the role of Chief Editor of RFE's Washington, D.C. bureau. Caryl is a regular contributor to Foreign Policy and the New York Review of Books and is a Senior Fellow at MIT's Center for International Studies.

Supported by NTM-A advisors, Afghan forces have established a basic, but rapidly growing, communication capability. During the course of the last twelve months they have more than tripled their number of trained Public Affairs Officers - from fifty-five to over two hundred...

Beyond the harsh rhetoric on who is to blame for 9/11, this appearance on BBC Persian has a few notable implications for U.S. public diplomacy apparatus in general and its policy towards Iran in particular.

Iran was to start broadcasting television programmes in Spanish in a bid to promote its ideology, a news report said Thursday...'This new Spanish network will have a major role in reflecting the ideological legitimacy of our system to the world,' [head of Iran's state television network IRIB, Ezatollah] Zarqami added during a meeting with the country's mass prayer leaders in Tehran.

The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) on September 28 launched a website which provides readers with Vietnam and world news in Chinese language at http://news.vnanet.vn and http://cn.vietnamplus.vn.

U.S. President Barack Obama has once again appealed directly to Iranian people over the BBC Persian service on Friday, in a rare showcase of technology surpassing the boundaries of official communication channels.

The Qatar-based media giant Al Jazeera has purchased a broadacasting station in the Bosnian capital. The operation is slated to begin January 2011 in Sarajevo and later be extended to the entire region. News of the Arab broadcaster's Bosnian expansion has produced diverse reactions.