Updated at 11:00 p.m. EDT, Oct. 5, 2006 In the last day, at least 73 Iraqis have been reported killed and another 58 wounded, including the discovery of at least 30 bodies throughout the capital. There are also reports that Abu Ayyub al-Masri was among four killed in...
With Ali al-Fadhily RAMADI - Reports of the setting-up of U.S.-backed Sunni militias have brought new uncertainty to deepening chaos within Iraq. Some Sunni leaders from the troubled al-Anbar province west of Baghdad recently met away from their tribes to set up new...
Updated at 11:30 p.m. EDT, Oct. 4, 2006 Violence in Iraq took the lives of at least 68 and injured 202 Wednesday. Four US soldiers were killed by "indirect and small arms fire" in northwestern Baghdad. Earlier, two more American soldiers were reported to have died,...
The revelation in Bob Woodward's new book, State of Denial, that Condoleezza Rice (then national security adviser to the president) brushed off CIA chief George Tenet when he came to her a few months before 9/11 with dire warnings of an imminent terrorist attack, is...
Five years after the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was putting the final touches on a brilliant campaign plan to oust the Taliban and its al-Qaeda allies from power, Afghanistan is back in the headlines, and the news isn't good. An unexpectedly fierce and...
Updated at 11:30 p.m. EDT, Oct. 4, 2006 Violence in Iraq took the lives of at least 68 and injured 202 Wednesday. Four US soldiers were killed by "indirect and small arms fire" in northwestern Baghdad. Earlier, two more American soldiers were reported to have died,...
Why We Can't Win Against Guerrillas An excellent piece. If I have any disagreement, it with your comment about 2nd, 3rd, and 4th generation warfare, as if these neat little categories could be separated in battle, and guerrilla warfare was something new. Certainly,...
NEW DELHI - The controversial United States-India "civilian nuclear cooperation" agreement met with a major setback over the weekend when the Senate formally went into recess without voting for a bill that would have granted President George W. Bush the...
Updated at 11:10 p.m. EDT, Oct. 3, 2006 Twelve new military deaths and at least 72 Iraqi deaths were reported Tuesday and overnight Monday. There were at least 85 reported injuries in various incidents as well. The International Organization for Migration released...
Congressman Mark Foley (R-Fla.), who co-chaired the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children and billed himself as an enemy of pedophiles and online predators everywhere, just resigned over e-mails and instant messages sent to underage male congressional pages...
