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The fallout from the killing of as many as two dozen Iraqi civilians by Marines could undermine U.S. efforts in Iraq more than the Abu Ghraib prison scandal did, a lawmaker who is a prominent war critic said Sunday. The shootings last November at
A senior American general who served as a combat commander in Iraq has accused the Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of squandering the lives of US soldiers by ignoring military advice on how to conduct the campaign. In an interview with The Sunda
Since the US invasion of Iraq more than 3 years ago, as many as 1 million Iraqis have fled to Jordan to escape lawlessness or to find jobs. The flight has created an exile community that is well in evidence at the Mecca Mall, where mnay of Amman
PHOTOGRAPHS taken by American military intelligence have provided crucial evidence that up to 24 Iraqis were massacred by marines in Haditha, an insurgent stronghold on the banks of the Euphrates. One portrays an Iraqi mother and young child, knee
Witnesses to the slaying of 24 Iraqi civilians by U.S. Marines in the western town of Haditha say the Americans shot men, women and children at close range in retaliation for the death of a Marine lance corporal in a roadside bombing. Aws Fahmi, a
The Afghan capital erupted in gunfire and riots after US troops shot dead at least 4 people following a traffic accident, with angry crowds shouting "Death to America." Gunshots could be heard near Kabul's diplomatic quarter as around 1
The deadly toxic threat of exposure to depleted uranium poisoning.
Photographs taken by a Marine intelligence team have convinced investigators that a Marine unit killed as many as 24 unarmed Iraqis, some of them "execution-style," in the insurgent stronghold of Haditha after a roadside bomb killed an Amer
A military investigation has reportedly concluded that US Marines embarked on the "methodical" killing of two dozen Iraqi civilians - including women and children - in what may be the worst incident of its kind since the 2003 invasion.
Southern Iraq, long touted as a peaceful region that's likely to be among the first areas returned to Iraqi control, is now dominated by Shiite Muslim warlords and militiamen who are laying the groundwork for an Islamic fundamentalist government,
The U.S. will take the fight against terrorism to every shore and outpost in pursuit of enemies like none before, not relenting until their defeat and showing the same resolve that won the Cold War, President Bush told West Point graduates.
A worrying upsurge of Taliban-linked violence in southern Afghanistan is being fuelled by government corruption and lack of development, analysts say. An incident in which 34 civilians were killed nearly a week ago in a coalition strike in Kandahar p
More than 60 minors, some as young as 14, have been held as prisoners at the US detention facility for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a London-based human rights group claimed in a report published.
Foreign minister Zebari said that Iraq does not want "any of our neighbors to have weapons of mass destruction." But"the right of the republic of Iran and the right of any other state to have scientific and technological abilities to r
Many secular Iraqis have been expressing their displeasure with the new Iraqi government that was sworn-in and introduced with much fanfare by politicians in Washington, Baghdad, and London. "All Iraqis know this government is totally irrelevant
Senior US officials silently condoned harsher methods at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and one general urged guards to use dogs to the "maximum extent possible" to control detainees, witnesses said. Soldiers were acting on orders from their
Henry Kissinger quietly acknowledged to China in 1972 that Washington could accept a communist takeover of South Vietnam if that evolved after a withdrawal of US troops—even as the war to drive back the communists dragged on with mounting deaths.
The White House ruled out previously authorised direct talks between Tehran and the US ambassador in Baghdad, which were to have focused on the situation in Iraq. The move marks a hardening of the Bush administration's position, despite pressure
Gunmen in Baghdad killed the coach of the Iraqi national tennis team and two players, reportedly for wearing Western-style tennis shorts, an Iraqi Olympic official said. Fundamentalists had been warning residents not to wear shorts.
President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair acknowledged mistakes in Iraq and cautioned that the formation of a unity government for the country does not mean an immediate drawdown of troops. "We'll keep the force level there nec
Washington played a key role in persuading the Attorney General that military action against Saddam Hussein in 2003 was lawful. Lord Goldsmith told Parliament that military action was justified on the basis of 3 existing resolutions, the last of whic
[What's one more death squad?] Marines wantonly killed unarmed Iraqi civilians, including women and children, and then tried to cover up the slayings. Criminal charges, including some murder counts, was expected, which would make the
Iran has decided not to take up an offer from Washington of direct talks over the future of Iraq for the time being, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said. "The American side tried to use this decision as propaganda and they raised so
What are national leaders to do when they attack to thoroughly discredit another country or mount an attack when a provocation is lacking? "Casus belli" is defined in my dictionary as (1) "an event or combination of events which is a
[It certainly was for Christians and Jews.] Many Iraqis think conditions have gotten so bad in their country, they'd like to see Saddam Hussein back in power, according to some of the seven young Iraqi men who had a candid discussion with The Ear
Acts of violence have killed nearly 2,500 people and forced more than 85,000 to flee their homes in Iraq, the United Nations assistance mission in Iraq said in a March-April report on the human rights situation.
Even after being cleared of any wrongdoing, 5 innocent men were kept captive at the detention center at Guantanamo. Today, these men who started out in China and ended up in Cuba are now free and in the Eastern European country of Albania, the only c
US Army Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, the highest ranking officer to testify in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, said he never suggested using military dogs in interrogations of Iraqi prisoners.
A few months after reports indicated that Iraqi university professors and academics were fleeing the country because of violence and kidnappings, now the middle class in Iraq also wants to leave. More middle class Iraqis seem to be "doing everyt
Iran conducted a test launch Tuesday night of the Shihab-3 intermediate-range ballistic missile, which is capable of reaching Israel and US targets in the region, Israel Radio reported.
