The incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama should move quickly to engage Iran without preconditions and to promote an Israeli-Syrian peace accord, according to two veteran Middle East experts whose views are likely to have influence over Obama's...
Updated at 7:45 p.m. EST, Dec. 3, 2008Defense Secretary Robert Gates has made the accelerated withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq a high priority in the coming months. Violent attacks left at least 21 Iraqis killed and another 16 Iraqis wounded. A blast in the Green...
Arguably the most successful act of revolutionary terror was the June 1914 assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo. Believing his mission to murder the heir to the Austrian throne had failed, Gavrilo Princip suddenly found himself standing a few...
Introducing the top figures in his national security team in Chicago Monday, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama promised a "new dawn of American leadership" that will be marked by much greater emphasis on diplomacy and multilateralism than was accorded by the...
Updated at 4:15 p.m. EST, Dec. 2, 2008A second day of bombings in northern Iraq left dozens of casualties. Overall at least 18 Iraqis were killed and 49 more were wounded across the country. No Coalition deaths were reported. Meanwhile, "Chemical Ali",...
Either way, we'll be leaving. Thanksgiving week was remarkable because it may have witnessed the last nails being driven into the coffin of America's ongoing colonial enterprise. On Tuesday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai angrily denounced the creation of a parallel...
Undeterred by massive budget deficits from wars, a falling economy, and financial bailouts, the U.S. government has managed to start a new cold war with Russia. Last Friday, the Russian military announced that it was developing a new generation of ballistic missiles...
As the euphoria of the Obama cult builds toward a climax and the pundits declaim the advent of Something Big, it's the small changes that concern me, particularly those that touch directly on my job, which is to sniff out the War Party wherever it is presently...
Updated at 7:36 p.m. EST, Dec. 1, 2008At least 58 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 112 were wounded in the latest violence. There were not many incidents, but the few that were reported were too significant to slip through the cracks. Meanwhile, South...
Updated at 4:55 p.m. EST, Nov. 30, 2008At least five Iraqis were found dead and another two were wounded in an unusually quiet beginning to the workweek. No Coalition deaths were reported either. Still, a number of important news stories came out of Iraq today. The...
