Updated at 11:35 p.m. EDT, July 11, 2007At least 163 Iraqis were killed and 101 were wounded in the latest violence. Most were killed during military operations. Also, an American servicemember died from non-battle-related causes that are under investigation. A truck...
The first news stories about the most notorious massacre of the Vietnam War were picked up the morning after from an Army publicity release. These proved fairly typical for the war. On its front page, the New York Times labeled the operation in and around a village...
The growing crisis over Islamic extremism in Pakistan is drawing attention to the complicity of that country's military government in the rise of the biggest haven for Islamic terrorism in the world. The issue, which is also linked to the threat to U.S. troops in...
As Congress begins to consider the Iraq War funding bill, defections by important Republican senators have caused a White House debate on whether to try to get ahead of the onrushing train to leave Iraq. In the Bush administration's surreal parallel universe, this...
In the face of a critical Senate debate on future U.S. strategy in Iraq, neoconservatives and other hawks are trying to rally increasingly skeptical – and worried – Republicans behind continued support for President George W. Bush's five-month-old...
Updated at 8:50 p.m. EDT, July 10, 2007At least 173 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and 124 were wounded in the latest round of violence. These numbers include an attack on a small northern village. An American servicemember and a Filipino were killed during...
Caught Red-Handed: Media Backtracks on Iran's 'Threat' I have been shocked to see some, including Rep. Dennis Kucinich, latch onto the myth that Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, never called for Israel to be "wiped off the map." Iran's own news agency reports...
Not since the resurrection of Jesus Christ has there been such a miracle: a dead body buried in a cave has come to life again. The "Jordanian Option" gave up its ghost almost 20 years ago. Even before that, it never was very healthy. But in 1988, some time...
While Americans were celebrating their independence from the British Empire with displays of fireworks and other patriotic observances, another anniversary was pointedly not being observed, or even much noted, in Israel: on that day in 1976, a daring raid by Israeli...
Updated at 11:02 p.m EDT, July 9, 2007In a significant development, tens of thousands of Turkish soldiers are believed to be at the Iraqi border waiting for permission to enter Iraq on a security mission. Violence elsewhere has been elevated since late Friday and...
