
Stoking Tensions, Risking Confrontation: A High Stakes US Gamble with Russia
Stephen LendmanWashington risking world conflict for imperial gain.
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Washington risking world conflict for imperial gain.
A former Marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi detainees was acquitted of voluntary manslaughter Thursday in a first-of-its-kind federal trial that ended with some of the jurors shaking hands and hugging the defendant and his sobbing mother.
...says Moscow in extraordinary warning to the West
Al-Lami's detention could discredit attempts by the Shiite-led government to keep top supporters of Saddam Hussein out of senior government jobs as he was in charge of that task, as head of a committee that screens former Baath party members.
Thousands of jubilant Afghans packed the national stadium to give the country's first Olympic medal winner Rohullah Nikpai a hero's welcome. Nikpai, who won a taekwondo bronze medal, was met by Vice-President Karim Khalili at Kabul airport in
Only after Stephen has passed through the agency's training program did he discover that the security firm was actually a front for a criminal syndicate. Rather than protecting lives and property, he would be required to take part in armed robber
In an effort to lay to rest some of the controversy surrounding its Afghanistan detention program, the US is building a new detention facility there designed to be on par with one in Iraq that came to be seen by many as a model program.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — The top U.S. diplomat in northwestern Pakistan narrowly escaped an attempt on her life Tuesday when two men with AK-47s jumped in front of her armored vehicle and sprayed it with bullets
A musical journey of the Bush/Iraq war years. He shall be missed. Mick Jagger says we should have sympathy for the devil. How about some sympathy for the president?
The U.S. intelligence community buckled sooner in 2002 than previously reported to Bush administration pressure for data justifying an invasion of Iraq, according to a documents posting on the Web today by National Security Archive senior fellow John
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki dug in his heels Monday on the future of the U.S. military in Iraq, insisting that all foreign soldiers leave the country by a specific date in 2011 and rejecting legal immunity for American troops. Despite the tough
US v. Russia and today's stakes are bigger than ever.
Scores of Afghan civilians who had gathered in a small village for the memorial ceremony of a militia commander were killed when U.S. and Afghan soldiers launched an attack in the middle of the night, officials and villagers said Saturday.
The Central Intelligence Agency has officially responded to charges in the current Ron Suskind bestseller, “The Way of the World,” related to the agency taking part in falsifying evidence related to WMD in Iraq.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan's largest political party on Friday proposed the husband of assassinated leader Benazir Bhutto to succeed the ousted Pervez Musharraf as president.
NEGOTIATORS have concluded a deal which will see the complete withdrawal of US troops from Iraq by 2011. Under the 27-point deal, all US combat troops will be withdrawn from Iraqi cities by next June, the negotiator, Mohammed al-Haj Hammoud, said.
The U.S. military freed a Reuters television cameraman on Thursday after holding him for three weeks in Iraq without charges for the third time.
"U.S. and Iraqi negotiators reached agreement on a security deal that calls for American military forces to leave Iraq's cities by next summer as a prelude to a full withdrawal of combat troops from the country," senior American officia
Here is the entire story of the old carrier: The Admiral Kuznetsov was launched in 1985. Following repairs in October 2004 the ship participated in exercises off Iceland. This was only the second mission of the ship in the past decade. Deployment
{I'm shocked!} A key pillar of the US strategy to pacify Iraq is in danger of collapsing because the Iraqi government is failing to absorb thousands of former Sunni Muslim insurgents who'd joined US-allied militia groups into the country'
Armored personnel carriers and troop trucks blocked the bridge to the Black Sea port city of Poti, and Russian forces excavated trenches and set up mortars facing the city. Another group of APCs and trucks were positioned in a nearby wooded area.
Syria sought to revive its security alliance with Russia today, when President Bashar al-Assad arrived in Moscow to clinch a series of military agreements, raising fears that the new Cold War that has erupted in the Caucasus will spill over into the
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Polish counterpart signed a deal Wednesday to build a U.S. missile defense base in Poland, an agreement that prompted an infuriated Russia to warn of a possible attack against the form
Russian forces on Wednesday appeared to dig in to positions deep inside Georgia despite pledges to pull back to areas mandated by a cease-fire signed by both countries.
Taliban insurgents mounted their most serious attacks in 6 years of fighting in Afghanistan over the last 2 days, including a coordinated assault by at least 10 suicide bombers against 1 of the largest American military bases in the country, and anot
Iraqi forces raided the provincial government compound in Diyala early Tuesday morning, killing the governor's secretary and confiscating computers and cars before local police engaged them in a two-hour gun battle,
About 100 heavily armed Russian soldiers aboard six armored personnel carriers overran the port of Poti at about 8 a.m., according to port officials and witnesses. Five hours later they drove out of Poti past helpless Georgian police officers and doz
The neocons hated President Reagan, because he ended the cold war with diplomacy, when they desired a military victory over the Soviet Union.
Pervez Musharraf, the puppet installed by the US to rule Pakistan in the interest of US hegemony, resigned August 18 to avoid impeachment. Karl Rove and the Diebold electronic voting machines were unable to control the result of the last election i
Suicide bombers tried unsuccessfully to storm a US military base near Afghanistan-Pakistan border in a daring attack. The fighting was still going on. The militants failed to gain entry to Camp Salerno after launching waves of attacks just before mid