Updated at 4:17 p.m. EDT, June 25, 2009
The surge in bombings continues in Iraq. At least 19 Iraqis were killed and 91 more were wounded across the country. Nine Coalition servicemembers were also wounded during a bombing in Baghdad.
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On November 17, 2008, when Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari and U.S. ambassador Ryan Crocker signed an agreement for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, citizens from both countries applauded. While many were disappointed about the lengthy timeline for the...
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In March 1997, FBI Director Louis Freeh got what he calls in his memoirs "the first truly big break in the case": the arrest in Canada of one of the Saudi Hezbollah members the Saudis accused of being the driver of the getaway car at Khobar Towers. Hani...
The Writing Is On the Settlement Walls
JERUSALEM -- A paralyzing equation has long bedeviled would-be Middle East peacemakers: either, go directly to negotiating the kernel issues of the Israel-Palestine conflict -- borders, security, refugees, Jerusalem -- and leave, in the context of a full peace, the...
Victim of al-Qaeda Torture Set Free from Guantánamo
Wednesday: 82 Iraqis Killed, 206 Wounded
Updated at 10:37 p.m. EDT, June 24, 2009
Despite a major bombing in Baghdad, the White House reiterated that U.S. troops will leave Iraqi cities by the end of the month as planned. At least 82 Iraqis were killed and 206 more were wounded in the Baghdad attack and elsewhere. No Coalition deaths were reported. Meanwhile, an Iraqi girl who was blinded and disfigured in a 2006 Sadr City bombing has returned home to Iraq following reconstructive surgery in London.
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