When the air and ground operation wound down, nearly 200 insurgents had been killed and close to 1,000 detained. But interrogations and other analyses carried out showed that none of those captured was from outside Iraq.
American Philip Bloom, who controlled three companies that worked on reconstruction in
Iraq, was charged on Wednesday with paying bribes and kickbacks to U.S. occupation authorities and their spouses.
Two men have been charged under the Official Secrets Act following the leak of a secret government memo. The document involved - the Foreign Office's Iraq in the Medium Term - referred to "heavy-handed" US tactics.
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dismissed growing calls for the United States to start withdrawing forces from
Iraq, saying Iraq was several years behind
Afghanistan as a secure country.
An audiotape in the name of al-Qaida in
Iraq threatened to chop off King Abdullah II's head and bomb more hotels and tourist sites. The speaker, identified as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, said the suicide bombers did not intend to bomb a Jordanian wed
The United States has detained more than 83,000 foreigners in the four years of the war on terror. The administration defends the practice of holding detainees in prisons from
Afghanistan to Guantanamo Bay as a critical tool to stop the insurgency i
Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network has increased its activities in
Afghanistan, smuggling in explosives, high-tech weapons and millions of dollars in cash for a resurgent terror campaign.
National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley was the senior administration official who told Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward that Valerie Plame Wilson was a CIA officer, attorneys close to the investigation and intelligence officia
Former President Clinton told Arab students the United States made a "big mistake'' when it invaded Iraq, stoking the partisan debate back home over the war.
We know one thing about the Bush administration, despite the President's Veterans Day speech on the "irresponsibility" of "rewriting history," he and his top officials had no hesitation about rejiggering the facts wherever nec
Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee on Defense is widely expected this morning to tell his colleagues in a special Caucus meeting that he has a new perspective on the Iraqi conflict and that the United States must no
The former US commander of
Abu Ghraib prison says that she was held up unfairly as a scapegoat by "male warriors" but the real blame for the abuse scandal rests with military leaders and the White House.
War protester Cindy Sheehan and several others return to court for the second day of trials on misdemeanor charges of demonstrating without a permit outside the White House.
WASHINGTON -- Signaling heightened opposition to the war in Iraq from a corner of long-standing support for the military, Rep. John Murtha, a conservative Pennsylvania Democrat, said today the United States should immediately begin to bring its troop
The Senate voted 84-14 to limit federal court jurisdiction over cases filed by prisoners at Guantanamo Bay (GTMO). We still have time to try to steer Congress toward the smarter option, which is to increase federal courts’ ability to review these cas
The details revealed thus far from the investigation that led to the five-count indictment against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby seem to indicate that the efforts to expose the identity of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson went far b
An increasingly uneasy Republican majority backed a U.S. Senate resolution on Tuesday that could pave the way for a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops from
Iraq but rejected Democrats' demands for an estimated timetable.
Pentagon officials acknowledged that U.S. troops used white phosphorous as a weapon against insurgent strongholds during the battle of Fallujah last November. But they denied an Italian television news report that the spontaneously flammable material
The Senate unanimously passed legislation authorizing $491.6 billion in defense programs, including policies on treatment of detainees likely to prompt a dispute with the House of Representatives.
Republican Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE), a Vietnam veteran and critic of Bush policy on Iraq, excoriated the Administration in a speech to Council on Foreign Relations.
As more and more Iraqis have been detained and released, the insurgency has intensified. The number detained has more than doubled in the last year and a half; the number of attacks has also more than doubled over the same period.
Abu Sabah knew he had witnessed something unusual. Sitting last year in a refugee camp in the grounds of Baghdad Univ., set up for the families who fled or were driven from Fallujah, this resident of the city told me how he had witnessed some of the
Ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has shown no remorse during questioning and was beaten up, when he hurled an obscenity at two of Shiite Islam's holiest figures, a source close to the investigation said.
Reps. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) and Walter Jones (R-NC) will begin collecting signatures after the Thanksgiving recess intended to force a discussion on a process to begin withdrawing American troops from Iraq no later than Oct. 31, 2006.
The UN war crimes court for the former Yugoslavia has acquitted the ex-chief of staff of the Muslim-dominated Bosnian army over his alleged role in the 1993 killings of Bosnian Croat civilians.
Of all the ways in which the American news media have failed since Sept. 11, 2001, none may be more consequential than the mild and deferential eye cast on the Bush administration’s adoption of torture as state policy.
Ahmad Chalabi's Washington met today with Don Rumsfeld in the morning and Dick Cheney in the afternoon -- I got a sneak peek Friday night over the course of a surrealistic four-hour dinner with Chalabi at Megu, a Japanese restaurant in Tribeca.
The US Department of Defense confirmed it had suspended the military trial of accused "Australian Taliban" David Hicks following a ruling by a US federal judge. "... pending the issuance of a final and ultimate decision by the Supreme