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For months, soldiers from the 172nd Stryker Brigade fought in riverside towns of western Iraq, to clamp off the flow of foreign fighters and suicide bombers said terrorizing Baghdad. Now, these same soldiers sent to Baghdad
James A. Baker III, the Republican co-chairman of a bipartisan panel reassessing Iraq strategy for President Bush, said Sunday that he expected the panel would depart from Mr. Bush's repeated calls to "stay the course, "
Snowe said in a statement that as conditioins in Iraq continue to worsen, "there must be no question among the (Bush) adminstration, the Congress and the Iraqi unity government that staying the course is neither an option nor a plan."
On the morning of Nov. 19, 2005, after a roadside bomb killed a young US marine driving a Humvee through Haditha, Iraq, marines in his unit killed as many as 24 civilians. It's not clear why. The marines say they were fired upon. Iraqi witness
A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred.
[see his e-mail for yourself] The yellow highlighting is mine. This is from page 26 of the Abramoff documents [pdf] I stumbled onto the same story when I was reading Newsweek where the remark "upcoming war in Iraq" is mentioned in passing i
Thousands of Iraqi police and soldiers swept through the restive Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk, searching homes for weapons and insurgents after all residents were ordered off the streets.
[so hand them guns and ammo] Five years after U.S. forces launched their offensive to oust Afghanistan's Taliban, Shakeela Jan says she is happy to have the freedom to work but that she travels to her job every day in fear.
[well duh] An independent commission set up by Congress with the approval of President Bush may recommend carving up Iraq into three highly autonomous regions, according to well informed sources.
Like the other too-clever-by-half stratagems of the Bush people in Iraq, the installation of Maliki created more problems than it solved, and it now looks like Maliki has utterly lost the confidence of the White House. Given up on democracy in Iraq
Despite past objections about multiple requests for defense funds and inadequate justification for parts of the spending request, the defense bill that Congress approved Friday is no different. Either the clamor has not been loud enough
NATO's top commander in Afganistan warned on Sunday that a majority of Afghans would likely switch their allegiance to resurgent Taliban militants if their lives show no visible improvements in the next 6 months. Gen. David Richards, a British o
British forces in Afghanistan face fighting the Taliban through the winter without the prospect of significant Nato reinforcement until next year at the earliest.
The year is 2017. The Americans are still here, the government is still bumbling, and the anchor wants his viewers to drink their tea slowly so they don't burn themselves. "You cannot go to the hospital during the curfew," he warns.
Congress has set a 2007 termination date for the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction at the behest of the Bush administration, removing the source of a series of audit reports that have emboldened critics of the president's war poli
Since late August, British commandos in the deserts of far southeastern Iraq have been testing one of the most serious charges leveled by the US against Iran: that Iran is secretly supplying weapons, parts, funding and training for attacks on U.S.-le
A Navy corpsman testified that Marines in his patrol seized an Iraqi civilian from his home, threw him into a hole and put at least 10 bullets in his head after growing frustrated in their search for an insurgent.
Tucked away in fine print in the military spending bill for this past year was a lump sum of $20 million to pay for a celebration in the nation's capital "for commemoration of success" in Iraq and Afghanistan.
NATO assumed responsibility for security across the whole of Afghanistan on Thursday when it took command in the east of the country from US led coalition forces. On Thursday it took command of about 12,000 US troops in the east.
See the invasion and occupation of Iraq from the point of view of Al Jazeera. Very interesting video (86 min.) that starts before the first bombs fall ....
Today, barely a dozen members of the 2,600-year-old Jewish community in Baghdad remain to observe Yom Kippur. Most are afraid to gather for holidays, and besides, they figure, how can one rejoice in a place like this?
Peeling away these various layers of rationalization ultimately reveals the nub of the pro-invasion argument: pure geopolitics. This argument, unlike the others, could not be made publicly to justify a war of choice. It was based on a long-held belie
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will urge the US to take concrete action to crack down on Kurdish guerrillas in Iraq, as a unilateral rebel cease-fire went into effect. Amid growing violence in Turkey's southeast and a diplomatic push
With profits from this spring's record opium crop fueling a broad Taliban offensive, Afghan authorities say they are considering a once unthinkable way to deal with the scourge: spraying poppy fields with herbicide.
"There were lots of stupid questions and accusations with no proof," said the 56-year-old veteran of combat against the Soviet occupation. He insists he was there only because Afghan rivals lied about him to the U.S. Army.
The American Ambassador to Baghdad was reviewing its funding programs in the light of legislation, known as the Leahy Law, that forbids the financing of foreign security forces that commit "gross violations of human rights".
BRITISH troops battling the Taliban are to withdraw from one of the most dangerous areas of Afghanistan after agreeing a secret deal with the local people. Over the past two months British soldiers have come under sustained attack defending a remo
This is the war they do not want you to see: but while the media are kept from the action, emails and videophone images from the troops tell a terrifyng story.
When the paper first circulated in the upper reaches of the administration it so angered Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that his aides gathered up copies of the document and had at least some of them shredded.
Demanding that a war be stopped is serious business. I would have thought making the decision to initiate that war would have been considered the same. What I see exhibited by our leaders everyday is far from serious behavior.
