ARBIL - The call from his mother changed Dr. Harb Zakko's life. "Someone has been calling me to open the door, saying he has something for you," his mother said. Soon after, apparently the same person called him at his clinic, asking personal questions. The...
Almost every war sees the emergence of a weapon that is considered decisive or revolutionary. The English longbow – with its ability to kill in great numbers at long range – gave England's armies the edge in medieval wars on the continent for nearly three...
The lead-up to the invasion of Iraq has become notorious in the annals of American journalism. Even many reporters, editors, and commentators who fueled the drive to war in 2002 and early 2003 now acknowledge that major media routinely tossed real journalism out the...
With Ali al-Fadhily BAGHDAD - Once one of the best countries for women's rights in the Middle East, Iraq has now become a place where women fear for their lives in an increasingly fundamentalist environment. Prior to the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq, Iraqi...
The final month of 2006 will be one to remember because of the first two – of perhaps many – U.S. Army servicemen will face charges that can carry the death penalty for crimes committed in Iraq. Yet 2007 may well be the year the U.S. military decides instead...
To have read the neoconservative press here over the past month, one would think that former Secretary of State James Baker poses the biggest threat to the United States and Israel since Saddam Hussein. As the ur-realist of U.S. Middle East policy who once had the...
When I first put forward my thesis that we are suffering from what I call the Bizarro Effect – the inversion of moral laws as well as the rules of logic – it was just a hypothetical, a tentative assessment of the consequences of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. I...
Updated at 7:25 p.m. EST, Dec. 7, 2006 At least 11 U.S. servicemembers died in three separate incidents in Iraq on Wednesday. A 12th soldier died on Thursday from wounds received on Wednesday. Meanwhile, at least 93 Iraqis were killed or found dead, 114 more were...
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's months-long diplomatic effort to get five other powers to agree to a tough United Nations Security Council resolution on sanctions against Iran now seems certain to fail, because of Russian and Chinese resistance. The...
Updated at 11:35 p.m. EST, Dec. 5, 2006 Attacks in Baghdad and an intense battle in Ramadi easily brought today's tally to 191 Iraqis killed or found dead and 91 injured. Also, one U.S. soldier was killed and five more wounded when militiamen attacked their patrol in...
