Updated at 1:26 a.m. EST, Feb. 22, 2008As the country awaits news on whether Shi'ite Moqtada al-Sadr will extend his ceasefire, at least 38 Iraqis were killed and another 16 were wounded in the latest attacks. New developments at the Turkish border also occurred....
For a few, salaries have soared. For the rest, unemployment has. Many Iraqi workers enjoyed huge salary increases following the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003. But unemployment rose more sharply under policies introduced by the Coalition Provisional Authority...
Forty-eight hours after Pakistani voters overwhelmingly repudiated the Bush administration’s "man in Islamabad," President Pervez Musharraf, Washington seemed uncertain about whether the election results marked a setback to U.S. strategic interests or...
The US military is "severely strained" by two large-scale occupations in the Middle East, other troop deployments, and problems recruiting, according to a new survey of military officers published by Foreign Policy magazine and the centrist think-tank Center...
Celebrate Good Times Whenever a bloodthirsty dictator resigns or, even better, dies, I pause to celebrate. I would have celebrated at Hitler's death had I been alive then. Ditto Stalin. And I did celebrate when Mao died. I look forward to Fidel Castro's death....
Updated at 1:20 a.m. EST, Feb. 21, 2008At least 28 Iraqis were killed and another 53 were wounded across Iraq during attacks that included a significant bombing in Muqdadiyah and a mortar attack on a children playing soccer in Balad. One American soldier was killed...
Despite Tuesday's historic announcement by President Fidel Castro that he is retiring from public office, U.S. citizens must await the departure of their own sitting president 11 months from now before Washington's nearly 50-year hostility toward the Caribbean island...
John McCain loves reporters, and the feeling is mutual: after all, he's great copy, has a fantastic narrative, and is always eager to make their jobs easier by giving them plenty of good quotes to chew over. The latest installment of the longest love affair in...
As the U.S. moves toward holding death-sentence trials for six Guantánamo Bay detainees alleged to have plotted the Sept. 11 attacks, legal scholars and human rights advocates are questioning not only the six-year-long process and timing of the charges, but...
Sen. John McCain's virtually certain victory in the Republican Party's presidential contest has led to scrutiny of his conservative credentials. The heated campaign debate between McCain and his former rival Gov. Mitt Romney about who was a less authentic conservative...
