BAGHDAD - In a country with no security and no jobs, just about anyone can work as a policeman. "To survive in Iraq under US occupation, there are only two jobs; police and garbage collection," Baghdad journalist Mohammad al-Dulaymi told IPS....
As human right lawyers sought to block US government efforts to stop a lawsuit against a Boeing subsidiary accused of flying detainees to "black sites" where they were tortured, a legal advocacy group published the first testimony of a victim of the Central...
Another chapter of the Kosovo crisis was closed on December 19, when the UN Security Council accepted the report of the "troika" that negotiations between Serbia and the Albanian separatists in its occupied province of Kosovo had failed. As predicted, the...
Updated at 12:02 a.m. EST, Dec. 21, 2007A U.S. soldier is among the dead in a suicide bombing that killed over a dozen Iraqis in Diyala province. Another bomb in Baghdad injured almost 30 people as well as killing three others. Overall, at least 53 Iraqis were killed...
with Emily Blout Last night, Congress dealt a severe blow to the democratic aspirations of the Iranian people. By re-appropriating the infamous Iran "Democracy" Fund, Congress showed blatant disregard for the well being and the wishes of Iranian pro-democracy...
Demands by US politicians and policymakers that Pakistan cooperate more closely with Washington in its "war on terror" fail to take account of both the Pakistani military's strategic priorities and its incompetence, particularly in conducting...
Now that the deadline has passed without an international agreement on the future of Kosovo – the Serbian province that has enjoyed autonomy under the tutelage of the United Nations since the NATO-Serb war of 1999 – a showdown in the UN Security Council...
Hamid Karzai is the grandson of Khair Mohammed of the village of Karz, not far from Kandahar. He was an indigent member of the Popalzai tribe with a large family who migrated to Kandahar seeking a better life. Normally, when a Pashtun is of noble stock he's known by a...
Longtime viewers of the popular NBC television show Saturday Night Live probably recall "Emily Litella" – an elderly woman with hearing problems commenting on the news on the "Weekend Update" segment, played by the late comedian Gilda Radner....
I had to laugh when I saw the headline: "Iraq Kurdish leader snubs Rice over Turkey raid." So Condi went all the way to Iraq to resolve this latest crisis in our fast-unraveling Iraqi protectorate, only to be told by Massoud Barzani, president of the...
