Friday: 3 Iraqis Killed, 5 Wounded

Thousands of Iraqis demonstrated on the seventh anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, but violence itself remained light. At least three Iraqis were killed and five more were wounded. Also, foreigner of unknown nationality was wounded in Baghdad. Meanwhile, the Islamic State of Iraq militant group took responsibility for a deadly triple bombing targeting foreign embassies last Sunday but also denied any connection for a coordinated attack against apartment buildings just two days later.
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All Options, Still, on the Table

During the press conference at the Pentagon on Tuesday, April 6th, announcing the Obama Administration's new "Nuclear Posture Review" (NPR), Secretary of Defense Robert Gates momentarily brandished America's sharp nuclear teeth. In doing so, he caused the...

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Bringing a Battle to Their Kids

There are certainly many gut-wrenching scenes in the "Collateral Murder" Wikileaks video currently making huge waves on the internet.  Though even the hardcore U.S. military apologentsia are having a (relatively) hard time justifying the slaughter of the...

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New Kyrgyz Leaders Say US Can Use Air Base

Kyrgyzstan's new leaders sought to reassure Washington Thursday that it can continue to use the strategic Manas airbase near the capital Bishkek as a supply link for U.S. operations in Afghanistan. Roza Otunbayeva, the head of the interim government, told reporters in...

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Thursday: 2 US Soldiers, 9 Iraqis Killed; 17 Iraqis Wounded

Updated at 5:12 p.m. EDT, April, 8, 2010 At least nine Iraqis were killed and 17 more were wounded in new attacks. Also, two U.S. soldiers were killed and five more were wounded during combat operations in northern Iraq yesterday. Meanwhile, U.S. Central Command said there are no plans to reopen an investigation into a 2007 helicopter attack that left two Reuters journalists dead.
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Obama Said to Mull Israel-Palestinian Peace Plan

Amid still-unresolved tensions over Jewish settlement expansion in East Jerusalem, two major publications reported Wednesday that President Barack Obama is seriously considering proposing later this year a U.S. peace plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict....

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Afghan Official Says US Raiders Hid Killings

The head of the Afghan Ministry of Interior investigation said publicly for the first time his investigators had accepted the testimony of family members of the victims of the Feb. 12 raid by U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) that the U.S. troops had dug bullets...

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