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[Just like the good old days under Saddam in the land of the free.] Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's month-old government rolled out its first major initiative against violence, announcing tighter crackdowns in the capital city in an attempt to c
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"The day of vengeance is near and your strong towers in the Green Zone will not protect you," said the statement posted on a Web site often used by Islamist militants and signed by the new leader Abu Hamza al-Muhajir.
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President Bush, just back from Iraq, dismissed calls for a U.S. withdrawal as election-year politics and refused to give a timetable or benchmark for success that would allow troops to come home.
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The House passed a $94.5 billion bill Tuesday to pay for continuing U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, hurricane relief, bird flu preparations and border security at home. The House-Senate compromise bill contains $66 billion for th
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Private military contractors are earning billions of dollars in Iraq -- much of it from U.S. taxpayers. Business is booming for those willing to tackle one of the most dangerous jobs on Earth. Lucrative U.S. government contracts go to firms called
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Western diplomats and disarmament experts reacted with alarm to Afghan government plans to arm hundreds of southern villagers against resurgent Taliban fighters. "There is considerable disquiet," said the director of a national disarmament
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More Americans expressed optimism about the war in Iraq after the killing of terrorist mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, suggests a CNN poll, but a majority still believes the invasion was a mistake.
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A provincial council in southern Iraq has suspended all cooperation with the British military after overnight clashes between troops and Shiite militiamen left five Iraqis dead.
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Iraq's prime minister set in motion the biggest security crackdown in Baghdad with 75,000 Iraqi and US troops to deploy. Plans for an extended curfew and a weapons ban, would show "no mercy" to terrorists six days after al-Zarqawi was k
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According to an earlier account, Nabiha Nisaif Jassim, a 35-year-old mother of two, was killed in firing along with her 57-year-old cousin Saliha Mohammed Hassan when they were being transported to a hospital for Nabiha to give birth.
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In the wake of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death, 48% believe the US probably or definitely will win the war, up from 39% in April. It also found that 47% believe things are going well in Iraq, up from 38% in March.
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Is the Project for the New American Century, which did so much to promote the invasion of Iraq and an Israel-centered "global war on terror," closing down? The group was "heading toward closing" with the feeling of "goal acco
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Iraq has formally notified the U.N. Security Council that it wants the U.S.-led multinational force to remain in place for now as Iraqi troops and police are not yet ready to ensure security on their own. "While great achievements have been g
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President Bush proposed today that Iraq create a national fund to use its oil revenues for national projects, as part of a strategy to build loyalty to the new government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki. [Cuz our treasury's worked so well.
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Until the end of 2004, Zarqawi was an al-Qaeda outsider . His myth was the product of American and British propaganda to justify a preventtive strik in Iraq. Colin Powell's announcement of Feb 5, 2003 - "Iraq today harbors a deadly terrori
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A medic spent about 20 minutes trying to save Abu Musab al-Zarqawi even as blood ran from the terrorist's mouth after the airstrike that mortally wounded him, the U.S. military said. But the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq was not wearing the suicide
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[Spinning suicide to see what sticks.] A top US official has described the suicides of three detainees at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a "good PR move to draw attention".
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Al-Qaida in Iraq named a successor to al-Zarqawi and said he would stick to the slain leader's path attacks on Shiites as well as on US and Iraqi forces. Identified as Abu Hamza al-Muhajer appeared to be a foreign Arab, like his predecessor.
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Iran said that it accepted some parts of a Western offer aimed at getting Tehran to drop its nuclear program, but it rejected others while calling the central point ambiguous. Iran said the key issue of uranium enrichment needed clarification.
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American investigators are exploiting the intelligence bonanza found in the rural safe house north of Baghdad where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, was killed last Wednesday. [Just in time for the elections.]
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The U.S. military has concluded its investigation into a video that appeared to show private security contractors shooting at civilian vehicles driving on highways in Iraq and determined that no one involved will be charged with a crime.
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America plans to retain a garrison of 50,000 troops, one tenth of its entire army, in Iraq for years to come, according to US media reports. Military planners have begun to assess the costs of keeping a 50,000-man force in Iraq for a protracted perio
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His administration is eager to capitalize on the killing of Zarqawi, leader of al Qaeda in Iraq and mastermind of some of the bloodiest bombings since a 2003 U.S.-led invasion (Here we go)
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Fears of an imminent offensive by the U.S. troops massed around the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi intensified Saturday, with residents pouring out of the city to escape what they describe as a mounting humanitarian crisis.
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An Iraqi man who was one of the first people on the scene of the U.S. airstrike targeting Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said he saw American troops beating a man who had a beard like the al Qaeda leader.
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He was still alive and moaning from an injury to his head when American helicopters and Humvees arrived at the scene. It had taken seven Iraqi men to drag him from the rubble minutes after the American air strike on the farmhouse where he was staying
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It seemed puzzling, too, given the destruction and the condition of the other bodies, how Mr. Zarqawi's head and upper body — shown on televisions across the world — could have remained largely intact.
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The camp commander said the two Saudis and a Yemeni were "committed" and had killed themselves in "an act of asymmetric warfare waged against us".
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During the days of the Nixon Watergate scandal investigation, reporter Bob Woodward was famously advisded by his mysterious source, Deep Throat, to "follow the money" as a way of cracking the story. Well, there's a lot of money to foll
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Flush with intelligence, the U.S. military moved quickly to take advantage of the power vacuum left by the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, carrying out nearly 40 raids in an effort to stop his terror network from regrouping. A U.S. military search
