Within hours of the verdict that Lewis "Scooter" Libby had "obstructed justice" – had prevented Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald from finding out whether a crime had been committed in the "outing" of CIA Non-Official Cover operative Valerie Plame and her...
QANDIL MOUNTAINS (Iraq-Iran-Turkey) - The fragile quiet in this no-man's-land is broken by a young fighter shooting into the air at a regular morning ceremony to "commemorate martyrs." The firing is more than ceremonial. A new threat of war is looming in this mountain...
Updated at 2:11 p.m. EST, Mar. 10, 2007As world powers met in Baghdad to discuss stabilizing the country, they were greeted by a pair of mortars, which resulted in no injuries. Overall, at least 78 Iraqis were killed or found dead during violent acts and another 120...
Watch Ron Paul's speech on video. The scandal at Walter Reed is not an isolated incident. It is directly related to our foreign policy of interventionism. There is a pressing need to reassess our now widely accepted role as the world's lone superpower. If we don't, we...
Once upon a time, our offshore prison at Guantánamo was the sort of place where even an American National Guardsman, only pretending to be a recalcitrant prisoner "extracted" from a cell for training purposes, could be beaten almost senseless. This actually...
The United States has maintained troops in South Korea for more than a half century. Since 1950, Washington has defended the Republic of Korea (ROK) with blood and treasure. During that time the ROK has gone from an impoverished, authoritarian state to a prosperous...
The Democrats have a plan – finally! – to get us out of Iraq, and it involves – as usual with the Dems – a complicated process of measuring "benchmarks" that, if not met, will supposedly trigger a U.S. withdrawal (in 180 days). Two dates...
Updated at 1:25 a.m. EST, Mar. 10, 2007At least three million Iraqis are in Karbala to observe Arbain ,which ends the forty-day period of mourning that began with the Ashura holiday; no deadly incidents were reported. Overall, at least 33 Iraqis were killed and five...
Last week, Houzan Mahmoud, the international representative of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (a partner organization of MADRE), opened her e-mail and found a message from Ansar al-Islam, a notoriously brutal Sunni jihadist group. The message read simply,...
It's springtime for Congress, and the Washington Dodgers are batting 1,000 in the exhibition season. No, I'm not talking about baseball. I have just enough interest in sports to know that the Dodgers play in Los Angeles and Washington's baseball team is the Nationals....
