Christopher Hitchens "had a perfectly swell time" in "Iraqi Kurdistan," as he calls it, where he spent the Christmas holidays, and he tells us all about it in the current issue of Vanity Fair. He has always been sympathetic to the Kurdish cause, and to say that...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a piece of work, an anti-Semitic demagogue with a penchant for the unpredictable. The Iranians can do better, declares U.S. President George W. Bush. As President Bush put it: "My message to the Iranian people is: You can do...
Halfway through the implementation of U.S. President George W. Bush's "surge" strategy to enhance security in Baghdad and Iraq's predominantly Sunni Muslim al-Anbar province, evidence that it is turning the tide nationwide is hard to come by. While civilian...
Updated at 1:00 a.m. EDT, April 21, 2007Fridays are usually quiet in Iraq. It is the day of prayer and curfews are in place to prevent violence. However, 63 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and 58 more were wounded. In Mosul, 130 Iraqi soldiers felt ill after a...
Following the defeat of efforts by Washington and London to ram the Ahtisaari plan through the UN Security Council earlier this month, the Empire seems to have pulled out all the stops in a campaign to achieve the independence of Kosovo, the Albanian-dominated,...
DAMASCUS - The massive influx of Iraqi refugees into Syria has brought rising prices and overcrowding, but most Syrians seem to have accepted more than a million of the refugees happily enough. "I'm looking at it this way," 35-year-old Amri Alaby told IPS....
Updated at 7:15 p.m. EDT, April 19, 2007Following one of the deadliest days there since the U.S. invasion, violence continued but as a slower pace. Overall, 82 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 70 were wounded in various attacks. Three U.S. and two British...
Monday's paper gave us a small reason to be happy. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met with Palestinian Chairman Mahmoud Abbas for the second time in just a few weeks. Reporting the meeting – described by Palestinian sources as "fruitless" – Ha'aretz...
The "Global War on Terrorism," or GWOT for short, has become such a staple of political discourse that it has been embraced both by Republicans and Democrats as well as the media. Republicans cite Iraq as the "central front" in the GWOT to justify...
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz was scheduled to spend this week welcoming economic officials from all around the world to the bank's spring meetings in Washington. Instead, he has been engaged in an intense campaign aimed at fending off the growing pressure on...
