Updated at 7:50 p.m. EST, Jan. 9, 2009 At least 12 Iraqis were killed and another 33 were wounded on a fairly active prayer day. Across Iraq, tens of thousands of demonstrators again protested against the Israeli operation in Gaza. No Coalition deaths were reported,...
The devastating Israeli firepower, unleashed largely on Palestinian civilians in Gaza during two weeks of fighting, is the product of advanced US military technology. The US weapons systems used by the Israelis – including F-16 fighter planes, Apache helicopters,...
CAIRO - Egyptian authorities have almost fully sealed the border with Gaza, preventing delivery of desperately needed humanitarian aid. "The government has expressly forbidden the entry of aid convoys laden with food into the Gaza Strip," Emmad al-Din...
RAMALLAH - An international chorus of condemnation has blasted Israel over its human rights abuses in Gaza. Operation Cast Lead, into its 12th day, has now claimed the lives of over 700 Palestinians. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) demanded safe...
Israel has repeatedly claimed that it had "no choice" but to wage war on Gaza on December 27 because Hamas had broken a ceasefire, was firing rockets at Israeli civilians, and had "tried everything in order to avoid this military operation," as Foreign Minister Tzipi...
At long last. Change we can believe in. In choosing Leon Panetta to take charge of the CIA, President-elect Barak Obama has shown he is determined to put an abrupt end to the lawlessness and deceit with which the administration of George W. Bush has corrupted...
On Monday US Marines raised the Stars and Stripes over America's $700 million embassy in Baghdad. Opined Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, America's first ambassador to the new Iraq: "It is from the embassy that you see before you that we will continue the...
The news that Dennis Ross will be appointed the special envoy to Iran – and, more, that he will function as a Middle East "czar" – is "staggeringly bad news," as Philip Weiss so trenchantly put it. The appointment, Weiss avers, is "illustrative of the fact...
Since the last blowout at Guantánamo on December 8, when dozens of reporters and relatives of victims of the 9/11 attacks watched as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and his alleged co-conspirators tried – and failed – to plead guilty so that they could die...
Silent Night I always think that European history is a lie that Americans agree on! And I am always amused at the way in which Americans "hijack" part of our history, distort it, and incorporate it into their own national myths. There was indeed a Christmas truce in...
