Summary: Dateline October 15, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 15, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that unmanned U.S. aircraft launched two missile strikes in a Pakistani tribal region along the Afghan border, killing nine people in a continuing escalation of drone strikes targeting leaders of the Taliban insurgency.

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Summary: Dateline October 10, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 10, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that — paralleling the political trend in the United States with its Tea Party movement — the far-right in Austria resurged in local elections in the capital city of Vienna, securing the largest gains following a campaign laced with anti-Islamic rhetoric.

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Summary: Dateline October 6, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 6, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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Summary: Dateline October 4, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 4, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Pakistan’s shutting of a key supply line for coalition troops in Afghanistan and the apparent ease with which militants were attacking the stranded convoys strained an already uncomfortable relationship between Washington and Islamabad.

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Summary: Dateline October 1, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 1, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical, anti-American Muslim cleric — whose Mahdi Army militia once fought U.S. occupation forces in Iraq — positioned himself as a big winner in Iraq’s months-long political deadlock when his Sadrist party threw its support behind Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

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Summary: Dateline September 29, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 29, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad had come under an intensifying barrage of rocket attacks in recent weeks, with a senior American military commander suggesting that Iranian-backed militias were behind the attacks in an effort to influence the formation of a new Iraqi government.

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Summary: Dateline September 28, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 28, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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Summary: Dateline September 27, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 27, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that a U.S. soldier, Army Spc. Neftaly Platero, had been taken in custody in connection with the shooting deaths of two fellow service members, Spc. John Carrillo Jr. and Pfc. Gebrah P. Noonan, in Fallujah, Iraq.

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Summary: Dateline September 25, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 25, 2010, Aubrey Immelman featured the five-member “Red team,” which is rethinking the war in Afghanistan and questioning some of the basic assumptions behind the effort to clean up corruption and gain the upper hand over the Taliban.

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Summary: Dateline September 24, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on September 24, 2010, Aubrey Immelman featured NBC News’ Voter Confidence Index (VCI), a measure of the political climate, which uses a combination of three questions commonly asked in national polls: the president’s job approval rating, the direction of the country (right track / wrong track), and the generic congressional ballot.

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