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...
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,...
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...
The bellwether of the cautious establishment press, Bob Woodward, has finally unloaded both barrels on the Bush administration's Iraq policy, in his new book, State of Denial. The media hoopla surrounding the book has focused mainly on the administration's deceptions...
The uproar over Bob Woodward's new book has intensified the media focus on a basic controversy that's summed up this way: Is Iraq a quagmire? Like many other debates that flourish in American mass media, the standard answers on both sides are wrong – because 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...
While the European Union's Javier Solana and Iran's Ali Larijani were making "good progress" toward an agreement that "will provide objective guarantees [to the EU] that Iran's nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes" that "will equally provide firm...
ARBIL - The security situation in the northern, oil-rich city of Kirkuk has further deteriorated over the past few weeks after the Iraqi government formed a committee assigned to "normalize the situation." The creation of that committee under a...
