"Did Anyone Survive the War?"
No soldier fully survived Vietnam, and no one will survive the current wars unscathed.
No soldier fully survived Vietnam, and no one will survive the current wars unscathed.
New York Times | Sabrina Tavernise | Posted 05.25.2011
When Jabbar, an elderly Shiite man, stormed out of his house here in June wanting to know where all his furniture had gone, the sharp look of the youn...
AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and ROBERT BURNS | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — Iraqi and U.S. negotiators have completed a draft security agreement that would see American troops leave Iraqi cities as soon as June...
Washington Post | Del Quentin Wilber and Karen DeYoung | Posted 05.25.2011
Federal prosecutors have sent target letters to six Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a September shooting that left 17 Iraqi civilians...
AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Military contracts in the Iraq theater have cost taxpayers at least $85 billion, and when it comes to providing security, they migh...
New York Times | Campbell Robertson | Posted 05.25.2011
Hampered by years of violence, a decimated infrastructure, a lack of foreign investors and a flood of imports that undercut local businesses, Iraq's p...
Karin Zeitvogel | Posted 05.25.2011
Welcome to Jabal al-Jofa, one of Amman's poorest neighbourhoods, and home to Ahmed Thahir and his family, refugees from Iraq. We had chosen Amman, Jordan as the venue of the mission, and tonight's visit was aimed at giving us greater insight into how the most destitute of refugees live.
ZP Heller | Posted 05.25.2011
When it comes to the Iraq war, the question is no longer whether the U.S. should end it, but how. On yesterday's Meet the Bloggers, special guest Darcy Burner made the case for A Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq, which she co-authored earlier this year.
New York Times | James Glanz | Posted 05.25.2011
The soaring price of oil will leave the Iraqi government with a cumulative budget surplus of as much as $79 billion by year's end an American federal ...
The Wall Street Journal | Gina Chon | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD -- A political turf war is threatening the stability of Iraq's biggest cash cow: the embattled but so-far dependable South Oil Co. After chas...
AP | KATHARINE EUPHRAT | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — More than 22,000 veterans have sought help from a special suicide hot line in its first year, and 1,221 suicides have been averted,...
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — Seven Shiite pilgrims traveling to a shrine in Baghdad were shot to death in an ambush in a Sunni town south of the capital Sunday as ...
Politico | Carrie Budoff Brown | Posted 05.25.2011
In advance of his Thursday address in Berlin, Obama chats with reporters on the plane, Carrie Budoff Brown reports: Asked if he expected a million sc...
Times Of London | Philip Webster, Political Editor, Deborah Haynes in Baghdad and Tim Reid in Washington | Posted 05.25.2011
Most of Britain's troops will be out of Iraq in a year, six years after the American-led invasion, Gordon Brown indicated yesterday. British Forces w...
The Guardian | Suzanne Goldenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
Canada yesterday deported to the US the first American army deserter fleeing the Iraq war across the US-Canadian border. Robin Long, 25, faces a poss...
New York Times | Jeff Zeleny | Posted 05.25.2011
Senator Barack Obama is proposing that the United States deploy about 10,000 more troops to battle resurgent forces in Afghanistan, a plan intended to...
AP | HAMZA HENDAWI and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — Hundreds of women in black abayas crowd outdoor food markets, snapping up groceries and fresh vegetables. Stores are open again. Child...
Times Of London | James Hilder | Posted 05.25.2011
Iraq said for the first time yesterday that it wanted to set a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops from its territory. President Bush has long ...
Washington Post | Craig Whitlock | Posted 05.25.2011
The Egyptian bureau of al-Hurra, an Arabic-language television network financed by the U.S. government, boasts a spectacular view of the Nile River an...
New York Times | Carl Hulse | Posted 05.25.2011
House leaders struck a bipartisan deal on Wednesday night on a major spending measure that would provide money for the war in Iraq through the end of ...
McClatchy Newspapers | Warren P. Strobel | Posted 05.25.2011
The Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison accused the Bush administration Wednesday of committing "wa...
New York Times | James Risen | Posted 05.25.2011
The Army official who managed the Pentagon's largest contract in Iraq says he was ousted from his job when he refused to approve paying more than $1 b...
Newsweek | Michael Isikoff | Posted 05.25.2011
A previously undisclosed CIA report written in the summer of 2002 questioned the "credibility" and "truthfulness" of an Al Qaeda detainee who became a...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
McClatchy Newspapers is set to report Monday: The American detention camp at Bagram Air Base north of Kabul, which the U.S. military set up starting ...
The Guardian | Robert Booth | Posted 05.25.2011
The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, was last night facing a Commons summons to explain how another batch of secret documents were left on a train. Pape...
Richard Klass | Posted 05.25.2011