Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki signaled last week that all U.S. troops – including those with non-combat functions – must be out of the country by the end of 2011 under the agreement he is negotiating with the George W. Bush administration. That...
Updated at 7:27 p.m. EDT, Sept. 2, 2008At least 20 Iraqis were killed and 43 more were wounded in a number of bombings carried out in Baghdad and Mosul. A U.S. soldier died in a non-combat related incident. Also, tensions between the central government and Kurdish...
Politicians regularly turn public fear into votes. President Bush proved a master at this in his 2004 reelection success. Most presidents who don't win the popular vote the first time don't get a second term, but fear pushed Bush over the top in 2004. In the 2008...
Mamdouh Habib, an Australian citizen, was living in Sydney with his wife and four children when he took a trip alone to Pakistan to find a home for his family. When Habib boarded a bus for the Islamabad airport to return home, Pakistani police seized him and took him...
In the lawless world of Guantánamo – and the United States' even murkier network of secret prisons run by or on behalf of the CIA – it has taken six years and four months for British resident Binyam Mohamed to secure anything resembling justice. Seized in...
Updated at 8:25 p.m. EDT, Sept. 1, 2008Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki called for peace as Sunni Muslims began their observance of Ramadan. The holy month begins tomorrow for Shi'ites. In Anbar province, the U.S. military formally handed over security to Iraqi forces....
During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 the soldier selected to lead the campaign, Gen. Tommy Franks, called Pentagon number-three man Doug Feith "the stupidest f*cking guy on the face of the planet." What Feith did to be dubbed the world's greatest fool is...
Updated at 6:45 p.m. EDT, Aug. 31, 2008At least 13 Iraqis were killed and 8 more were wounded in the latest attacks. Meanwhile, the tense situation between central government forces and Peshmerga forces continues in Khanaqin. Also, Ramadan begins tomorrow for Sunni...
Eighteen-year-old Sahar Vardi is currently in an Israeli military prison. She is being punished for the crime of refusing to be conscripted into the Israeli military. A few weeks before her imprisonment she wrote Israel's Minister of Defense, Ehud Barak, explaining...
This is the last Charley Reese column, as the author is retiring. All of us at Antiwar.com will miss his insights and wish him well. Years ago, the first time I saw my friend Brother Dave Gardner after he had survived a plane crash, the comedian smiled and said,...
