The United Nations Security Council has agreed to tighten economic sanctions against Iran following Iran's continued refusal to suspend its ongoing program of uranium enrichment. This decision follows the release of a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency...
The self-appointed election "monitors" of the Council of Europe have delivered their official verdict on the procedures and results of the recent Russian election, in which Dmitry Medvedev, Vladimir Putin's designated heir, skated to victory. "We think there is not...
One of several dead hands the First Generation of Modern War lays on contemporary state militaries' throats is linearity. Most state militaries both seek and expect linearity on and off the battlefield. Sometimes, this manifests itself in tactics that offer...
Maybe it sounded good when politicians, pundits, and online fundraisers talked about American deaths as though they were the deaths that mattered most. Maybe it sounded good to taunt the Bush administration as a bunch of screw-ups who didn't know how to run a proper...
Updated at 12:35 a.m. EST, Mar. 5, 2008In a reprieve from yesterday's violence, at least 51 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 27 more were wounded in the latest attacks. A U.S. soldier was killed when an Iraqi helicopter crashed in a dust storm. One U.S. soldier...
DAMASCUS - More Iraqis continue to flee their country than the numbers returning, despite official claims to the contrary. Thousands fleeing say security is as bad as ever and that to return would be to accept death. "Return to Iraq?" asks 35-year-old Ahmed...
DAMASCUS - More Iraqis continue to flee their country than the numbers returning, despite official claims to the contrary. Thousands fleeing say security is as bad as ever and that to return would be to accept death. "Return to Iraq?" asks 35-year-old Ahmed...
For months, U.S. President George W. Bush and Gen. David Petraeus have been touting the program of recruiting tens of thousands of Sunnis into U.S.-financed "Awakening Councils" as a master stroke of Iraq strategy which has weakened al-Qaeda in Iraq and...
We Israelis live in a world of ghosts and monsters. We do not conduct a war against living persons and real organizations, but against devils and demons which are out to destroy us. It is a war between the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness, between absolute good...
Updated at 12:15 a.m. EST, March 4, 2008Several bombings and other violence left 102 Iraqis killed and 120 wounded. The figures include new casualties from a previous reported bombing in Samarra. Among today's dead and injured are a woman and children, who were...
