Soldiers Forced to Go AWOL for PTSD Care

With a military health care system over-stretched by two ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, more soldiers are deciding to go absent without leave (AWOL) in order to find treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Eric Jasinski enlisted in the military in...

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Friday: 1 Marine, 8 Iraqis Killed; 26 Iraqis Wounded

Updated at 8:04 p.m. EST, Dec. 11, 2009 At least eight Iraqis were killed and 26 more were wounded in prayer day attacks. U.S. Defense Secretary Gates met with Iraqi officials and U.S. servicemembers during his trip through Iraq. Meanwhile, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that he supported the removal of Saddam Hussein even though the basis for the ourster, weapons of mass destruction, was never found. Also, the Department of Defense announced the Tuesday death of a U.S. Marine from unknown casuses.
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Iran’s Diaspora: Beware Change for Its Own Sake

As international attention has turned from the disputed June 12 Iranian presidential election and that regime's brutal crackdown to the negotiations surrounding Tehran's nuclear program, hardline neoconservatives in the United States, Iranian opposition leaders and...

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Increased Focus and Growing Pressure on Pakistan

While President Barack Obama's announcement last week that he will "surge" 30,000 more U.S. troops into Afghanistan has received all of the attention here over the past week, Pakistan appears to be looming larger than ever in Washington's strategic...

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One Step Closer to Unilateral Sanctions Against Iran

Congress has given new momentum to a bill imposing unilateral sanctions on Iran -- a move seen by many as an ineffective form of sanctions and potentially antagonistic against valuable U.S. allies on the U.N. Security Council. This comes ahead of the end of the year...

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