To succeed, next month's Israeli-Palestinian conference here should establish and endorse the contours of a permanent peace accord and secure the participation of Arab states that do not currently recognize Israel, including Syria, according to a letter sent Wednesday...
In a major rebuff to human rights and government accountability activists, the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday declined to take up the case of a German citizen who was allegedly abducted, detained and tortured by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as part of the CIA's...
Bolstered in part by major new arms agreements with Pakistan, the United States reclaimed its ranking as the developing world's biggest supplier of conventional arms in 2006, according to a new report [.pdf] by the Congressional Research Service (CRS). Washington...
Amid growing speculation about prospects for military action against Iran, neoconservatives and other hawks won a significant – if somewhat incomplete – victory in rallying the Democratic-led Congress to its side. In a 76-22 vote Wednesday, senators approved...
Despite the support of a solid majority of the US Senate, a measure designed to restore the right of foreign terrorist suspects to challenge their detention in federal court was blocked here Wednesday on a procedural maneuver. The measure, an amendment to the 2008...
In what was at least a symbolic blow to George W. Bush, a prominent Iraqi tribal sheikh and self-styled leader of the "Sunni Awakening" movement against al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) was assassinated just hours before the US president was to make his latest appeal...
After two days of Congressional testimony by Washington's top two officials in Iraq, prospects for a substantial withdrawal of US military forces there before the end of President George W. Bush's tenure at the White House look as remote as ever. Bush himself is...
Civil liberties advocates and Democrats hailed Monday's resignation by U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as a major victory, while most Republicans, for whom Gonzales' performance had increasingly become a source of embarrassment, kept their comments to a...
While there have been some improvements in Iraq's security situation over the past seven months, the level of overall violence remains "high" with only modest improvements possible over the next six to 12 months, according to a new study by the US...
Opening a new campaign to sustain his "surge" strategy in Iraq, President George W. Bush Wednesday compared Washington's ongoing struggle there to both World War II and the Vietnam War where, he said, Washington's withdrawal led to disaster for...
