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The ruling represents the latest defeat for U.S. officials in their efforts to keep Guantanamo detainees behind bars. "(U.S.) officials kept a young man from Yemen in detention in Cuba from age eighteen to age twenty-six," Kennedy wrote. "They have p
"I don't think there's a crime bigger than that that even the most inhuman forces on earth can commit," Karzai said. "A 7-year-old boy cannot be a spy. A 7-year-old boy cannot be anything but a 7-year-old boy, and therefore hanging or shooting to kil
Obama's agenda is permanent war.
That Israel found a loose thread in the stuffed animal of NATO and started pulling it is not surprising. What is interesting is to watch the signatories watch them do it. In the land of stuffed animals, some animals are more equal than others.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, in a military broadcast, placed his million plus armed forces on “combat readiness,” causing concern worldwide about North Korean intentions as well as a drop in major stock markets.
An air strike in Yemen targeting al Qaeda missed its mark and killed a mediator by mistake, prompting members of his tribe to blow up a crude oil pipeline in clashes that followed. Separately, a Yemeni government official said a U.S. couple, taken ho
A senior U.S. military commander issued a secret order last year that laid the ground for an escalation of covert operations across the Middle East and the Horn Africa. Issued by General David Petraeus, authorized boosting military and intelligence a
An Afghan family says innocent people were killed, but the U.S. military expresses certainty that those who died in the early hours of May 14 were insurgents, including a Taliban commander.
Senior British officials, including new Foreign Secretary William Hague, arrived in Afghanistan Saturday with a warning that Britain wants to withdraw its troops as soon as possible. Hague, Defense Secretary Liam Fox and International Development Sec
PYONGYANG, May 24 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) vowed on Monday that if South Korea deployed propaganda loudspeakers along the border line, the DPRK military would fire at and destroy them, the official news agency KCN
I mean, I hate Democrats,...but I could get behind this.
The military's workhorse rifle - used in battle for the last 40 years - is proving less effective in Afghanistan against the Taliban's more primitive but longer range weapons. They are considering weapons that fire a larger round largely discarded.
Insurgents have launched a brazen pre-dawn assault against the giant US-run Bagram Air Field one day after a suicide bomber struck a US convoy in the capital of Kabul, killing 18 people. The Kabul dead included 5 American troops and a Canadian and wa
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki took a major step toward staying in power when a top Shiite cleric said he would not stop him from keeping his job, but an arch-rival warned of civil war. Moqtada al-Sadr, a radical, anti-US cleric who is currentl
An Iraq War veteran who served with the company shown in the "Collateral Murder" video released by whistleblower web site Wikileaks says the military trained him to dehumanize Iraqis. In a videotaped interview Josh Stieber told The Real News Network
The journalist who helped break the story that detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were being tortured by their US jailers told an audience at a journalism conference last month that American soldiers are now executing prisoners in Afghanistan
Vietnam marked the 35th anniversary of the Communist victory in the Vietnam War with a grand military parade through the former Saigon, with the government basking more in its economic achievements than its historic military defeat of the United Stat
Irate demonstrators burned tires and blocked traffic in eastern Afghanistan after US-led forces killed an armed relative of an Afghan lawmaker during a night raid on her home. The confrontation was another setback for the American-led military coalit
And when the government tried to turn his death into war propaganda, they took on the wrong family. From her home in the Santa Cruz mountains, Pat’s mother, Dannie Tillman, led the family’s crusade to reveal the truth beneath the mythology...
"This weekend I saw the most beautiful mountains I have ever seen in my entire life, and they are covered with land mines. These priceless gifts of exploration are inaccessible because years of war has ravaged this country."
The American-led effort to gain control of southern Afghanistan is off to a slow start and the political clock is ticking as U.S. troops head into what could be the bloodiest fight yet in the eight-year war.
Think Iraq and imagine hell on earth.
The Greek gods, after all, lied to, stole from, lusted for, and punished humanity without mercy, while taking the planet for a spin in a manner that we mortals would consider amoral, if not immoral. And it didn’t bother them a bit. They felt -- so
This is a video based on the song "Strong is Wrong" from Joni Mitchell's 2007 CD "Shine". A video by Jack Gregson.
Pentagon Pushes for $10 Million 'Pool' for Funding
US troops are pulling out of Afghanistan's perilous Korengal Valley as part of a new focus on protecting population centers, NATO said, ending a mission that saw some of the most intense fighting of the 9-year American occupation in the country.
Life under the Hellfire missile has not been a pleasant one for the Taliban and al Qaeda. A New York Times journalist, held prisoner for several months by the Taliban, reported that even in the remotest areas of Pakistan’s wild tribal regions, the te
Whistleblower website WikiLeaks.org has released a classified US military video of what it calls 'the Pentagon murder cover-up'. The 39-minute clip shows more than a dozen civilians shot dead including two Reuters journalists, Namir Nood-Eldeen and S
Thanks to sites like antiwar.com we know the cost of life that war brings, but here’s a great resource on the monetary costs of war in a simple counter.
6 winning candidates in Iraq's parliamentary elections will be stripped of their votes and lose their seats — which would cost secular politician Ayad Allawi's bloc its narrow victory — if a federal court upholds a broad purge of candidates who are s
