Just 10 days after taking over his new post, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is in Iraq to pressure leaders into deciding whether they will ask for U.S. troops to remain in Iraq after a year-end withdrawal deadline but that decision will likely not happen for another couple of weeks. Not only have four Iraqis been killed today, so has one U.S. soldier. Another five Iraqis were wounded in the latest violence. Also, Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has rescinded his threat to reactivate the Mahdi Army.
read moreSaturday: 2 Iraqis Killed, 26 Wounded
Violence left at least two Iraqis dead and 26 more wounded. In Baghdad, Iraqi lawmakers have not yet decided whether they will ask for U.S. troops to remain past a withdrawal deadline. Meanwhile, the League of the Righteous reiterated their demands in regards to a British bodyguard they’ve held hostage for four years. They want the United States to release their colleagues from detention.
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Start of the Season
It looked like a scene from an opera. Massed in the doorway and second floor balconies of a quaint building in Athens, facing a magnificent view of the Parthenon, Spanish activists hung banners and flashed peace signs and proclaimed that they wouldn't leave the...
Friday: 6 Iraqis Killed, 11 Wounded
At least six Iraqis were killed and 11 more were wounded in today's violence. Meanwhile, hundreds demonstrated in Baghdad. Two soldiers were killed and three more were wounded during a blast in Abu Ghraib. Two Sahwa members were killed in a drive-by shooting in Jurf...
South Sudan’s Independence Clouded by Unresolved Issues
Two days before celebrating the independence of South Sudan in Juba, senior U.S. officials warned Thursday that unresolved issues between the new country and Khartoum, as well as ongoing conflicts along or near their common border, threaten the stability of both...
The Lies That Sold Obama’s Escalation in Afghanistan
A few days after Barack Obama's December 2009 announcement of 33,000 more troops being sent to Afghanistan, in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Defense Secretary Robert Gates advanced the official justification for escalation: the Afghan Taliban...
Bradley Manning, American Hero
America, Won’t You Please Come Home?
Thursday: 2 U.S. Soldiers, 4 Iraqis Killed; 11 Wounded
At least four Iraqis were killed and 11 more were wounded in the latest attacks. Two U.S. soldiers were killed in an E.F.P attack outside Victory Base Camp as well.
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