Hey War Hawks: What Are You Thinking These Days?
Dick Cheney may have thought we'd be welcomed as liberators, but anyone who compared the Middle East of 2003 to Europe before World War Two was off the rails.
Dick Cheney may have thought we'd be welcomed as liberators, but anyone who compared the Middle East of 2003 to Europe before World War Two was off the rails.
McClatchy | Posted 07.03.2009 | World
Homemade bombs go off almost every day in Iraq, usually targeting military and police convoys in cities such as Baghdad and Mosul....
New York Times | Posted 06.08.2009 | World
American soldiers shot and killed two people in the northern city of Mosul, including a 12-year-old boy the military said had thrown a hand grenade at...
AP | BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 05.25.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — It's been a season of jarring flashbacks in Iraq: a spate of major suicide bombings, including more than 145 dead over two days of blo...
AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 05.23.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon's top Middle East adviser said Wednesday insurgent attacks in Iraq will probably increase as U.S. forces start to leav...
Stephen Herrington | Posted 04.30.2009 | World
The Afghan conflict, in which we find ourselves, is a war simply neglected, materially and strategically.
Fay Ferguson | Posted 04.12.2009 | World
The Supreme Command of Jihad and Liberation were due to meet with other groups opposed to US-backed prime minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki to discuss plans for governance after US troops leave.
Columbia Journalism Review | Paul McLeary | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Last week, the news from Iraq was grim. Five U.S. soldiers were killed near Mosul, two female suicide bombers killed scores of civilians in Baghdad, a...
Washington Independent | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
It was the crescendo of an otherwise flat State of the Union address. "Ladies and Gentlemen," President George W. Bush declared Monday night, "some ma...
Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
U.S. President George W. Bush said on Friday the United States would have a long-term presence in Iraq that could "easily" last a decade, but that it ...
Washington Post | Karen DeYoung and Thomas Ricks | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
In the year since President Bush announced he was changing course in Iraq with a troop "surge" and a new strategy, U.S. military and diplomatic offici...
Washinton Times | Sara Carter | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Iran's leaders are no longer supplying weapons or training to Islamic militants in Iraq, the spokesman for the top U.S. commander in Iraq told The Was...
Washington Post | Karen DeYoung | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Iraqis of all sectarian and ethnic groups believe that the U.S. military invasion is the primary root of the violent differences among them, and see t...
Politico | Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei and John F. Harris | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Vice President Cheney today predicted Iraq will be a self-governing democracy by the time he leaves office, calling the current U.S. surge strategy "a...
NY Post | DAVID SEIFMAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
In his most detailed comments on the Iraq war, Mayor Bloomberg last night suggested the United States was in the same difficult position as the Britis...
The New York Times | ALISSA J. RUBIN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Sunni Arab extremists have begun a systematic campaign to assassinate police chiefs, police officers, other Interior Ministry officials and tribal lea...
Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics