I am reading Ann Jones’s new book, They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America's Wars: The Untold Story and I am crying, again. I am thinking how military recruiters would like to destroy copies of this book the way the Pentagon did to Tony Shaffer’s...
The ever-mercurial Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, recently called a council of the nation’s tribal elders (a loya jirga) to ratify a bilateral security agreement reached with the United States governing the up to 12,000 U.S. forces that would be left in that...
More than 300 U.S. drone attacks have killed 2,160 militants and 67 civilians in Pakistan since 2008, according to Pakistani defense ministry data. But people living in the affected areas are now questioning these figures, asking why they never get to know the names...
Dear Readers: I'm taking a much-needed break today, getting some necessary research done. I'll be back on Friday. In the meantime, check out my recent piece for The American Conservative, "JFK, Warmonger."The suspicion that the sarin gas attack supposedly launched by...
Aliakbar Salehi is a former member of the Iranian parliament and an Internet freedom and human rights advocate now living in Washington, DC. In 2006, he was arrested and jailed by the Iranian government for urging human rights reforms. But the authorities are not the...
In a rare attack for Kurdistan, a journalist was assassinated at his home in Kalar. His mother witnessed the shooting. In Baghdad, an evening bombing left two dead and six wounded in the Ghazaliya district. Another blast then killed three people and wounded eight more...
