A double bombing that took place in Baghdad could foreshadow a violent flare-up later this week during the Eid al-Adha holiday. At least 18 Iraqis were killed in the bombing and other attacks. Another 51 were wounded. Also, an insurgent believed to be from Yemen was killed.
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Washington’s Pakistan Meltdown
In 1948, George Orwell published his classic dystopian novel 1984, flipping the numbers in the publication year to speed us into a future that is now, of course, 28 years in our past. In that book, he imagined a three-superpower world of regularly shifting...
Will Obama Paint Mitt as Warmonger?
Trotskyites for Romney
Back in the early 1990s, before Antiwar.com was founded, I was a regular at a roundtable discussion group sponsored by the late Bill Rusher, a founding editor of National Review: these seminars were organized by a young man associated with a prominent conservative...
Seven Killed in Iraq; Sahwa Walkout Threatens Security
At least seven Iraqis were killed and 17 more were wounded in new violence. Also, many Sahwa members in the Kirkuk area are threatening to quit their jobs. A number of Sahwa members quit their jobs and abandoned their posts in Hawija and Kirkuk. The men say their...
Who Is Responsible for the Mess in Libya?
How many times have you heard the truism that in modern-day America the cover-up is often as troubling as the crime? That is becoming quite apparent in the case of the death of Chris Stevens, the former U.S. ambassador to Libya. Stevens and three State Department...
US Military Assistance to Central Asia Highly ‘Opaque’
U.S. military assistance to key Central Asian governments has increased dramatically in recent years but remains highly “unexamined," according to new research presented in Washington on Tuesday. Military assistance, which stood at around 5% of all U.S. aid to the...
Obama’s Report Card
The terrifying prospect of a Mitt Romney foreign policy has somehow obscured just how badly President Barack Obama has performed. When Obama took over as the self-proclaimed “leader of the free world” in January 2009 there was a war going on in Afghanistan, a lesser...
Turkish Planes Bomb Iraq, Again; 11 Killed in Other Attacks
Turkey resumed operations inside northern Iraq today. Although no casualties were reported there, at least 11 Iraqis were killed and 21 more were wounded elsewhere.
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