More than seven weeks ago, US media attention on Iraq peaked as Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador to Iraq Ray Crocker delivered their much anticipated evaluation of the George W. Bush administration's "surge strategy" before Congress. By most official and...
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday declared emergency rule, fired the country's chief justice, and suspended the constitution, effectively giving him absolute power in a country many U.S. experts warn is spinning out of control. Despite its unhappiness...
More than two months after Israeli warplanes conducted a mysterious raid in northeast Syria, there is a growing consensus among U.S. government and independent analysts that the suspicious target was a nuclear facility. But the evidence they are relying upon – a...
L. Bruce Laingen was working as a senior U.S. Foreign Service officer in Tehran in 1979 when student protesters – caught up in the fervor of Iran's Islamic Revolution – seized the U.S. embassy and irrevocably changed the course of relations between the two...
with Ali Gharib Right-wing pundit David Horowitz was in rare form during a tightly controlled "public speech" at the George Washington University on Thursday night, decrying the US academic Left as a hateful "lynch mob" who act as apologists for...
A resolution recognizing as "genocide" the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians in the former Ottoman Empire nearly a century ago has gained the sponsorship of a majority of members in the US House of Representatives. But it has also drawn heavy criticism from...
As with most of the controversies that have embroiled the US in Iraq, the activities of the George W. Bush administration's mercenary force remained murky and opaque. Enabled by the US State Department, private security firms such as Blackwater USA seemingly occupied...
With a strong majority of US citizens favoring withdrawal from Iraq within a year and presidential elections set for 2008, Democrats and moderate Republicans continue to face an uphill struggle to force President George W. Bush to change course. But as many Washington...
He called for more "research" into the unequivocal facts of the Holocaust, said Iranian women were among the freest in the world, and declared that homosexuality did not exist in his country. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad courts controversy wherever...
This past summer, President George W. Bush extended a hand where he never has before, calling for a Middle East conference to find a solution to the long-moribund Palestinian-Israeli peace process. This time, says U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, her boss...
