Fresh attacks in Iraq left 17 dead and 11 wounded.

Originally posted at TomDispatch. In the years when I was growing up more or less middle class, American war on the childhood front couldn’t have been sunnier. True, American soldiers were fighting a grim new stalemate of a conflict in Korea and we kids often...

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...

At least 39 people were killed and 46 more were wounded across Iraq. The most significant attacks took place in Diyala province.

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...

At least 43 people were killed and 60 more were wounded in fresh attacks across Iraq.

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At least 61 people were killed and 214 more were wounded in fresh violence around the country. The Baghdad region experienced the most bombings.

At least 21 Iraqis were killed and 36 more were wounded. Gunmen attacked a number of liquor stores in Baghdad.