Light violence left at least seven Iraqis dead and another eight wounded as the two leading contender to be the next prime minister met today.
read moreFriday: 2 US Soldiers, 16 Iraqis Killed; 39 Iraqis Wounded
Two U.S. soldiers were killed and six were wounded during a suicide car bombing near the Iranian border. At least 16 Iraqis were killed and 39 more were wounded there and in other attacks across the country. Several attacks on U.S. targets have occurred in recent days.
read moreFor the US in Afghanistan, the News Is Bad
While U.S. officials insist they are making progress in reversing the momentum built up by the Taliban insurgency over the last several years, the latest news from Afghanistan suggests the opposite may be closer to the truth. Even senior military officials are...
Health Agency Urged to Probe CIA Torture Claims
Human rights groups are turning to an obscure government agency to investigate allegations that medical professionals on the payroll of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) helped the agency to perform experiments on detainees in U.S. custody following the terrorist...
The Moral Failure of American Liberals
Iran’s Green Movement: One Year Later
The War is Making You Poor
Editor's note: Justin's column will return Wednesday. Complain, complain, complain – that, it seems, is what anti-interventionists often seem content – or, rather, condemned – to do. The world is in a bad state, and getting rapidly worse, this guy is evil, that one is...
Advantage Hamas After Flotilla Fiasco
RAMALLAH -- Israel may allow soft drinks, juice, canned fruit, salads, biscuits, and potato chips into the Gaza Strip from next week. What should be an unremarkable event is making news headlines and portends unseen consequences. After four years of a crippling...
Concerns Grow over Bagram’s Prison within a Prison
The administration of President Barack Obama is considering using Afghanistan's U.S.-run Bagram Air Base prison to indefinitely detain terrorism suspects captured far from a battlefield and who have not been charged with a crime -- without any judicial oversight. A...
New Footage Depicts Attack on Mavi Marmara
Blasts from a megaphone accompany the sounding of alarms, a woman's voice repeatedly pleading, "We are civilians, we have no guns...we need help for people...please don't attack." Brazilian-American filmmaker Iara Lee, a passenger on board the Mavi Marmara,...
