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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 04.13.2009 | World


Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Pakistan: Yet Another Path to Failure Facts: Pakistan's government arrests hundreds of "dissidents" includi...

On Proportionality

Howard Schweber | Posted 02.14.2009 | World


Howard Schweber

The real question is whether "proportionality" remains a useful category of analysis. By any accepted interpretation, the standard has been repeatedly violated by both Israel and Hamas.

US Death Toll in Iraq War Hits 4,000

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 03.31.2008 | Home


BAGHDAD — A roadside bomb killed four U.S. soldiers in Baghdad on Sunday, the military said, pushing the overall American death toll in the five...

Mental Hospital Administrator Arrested For Supplying Mentally-Retarded Patients To Insurgents For Suicide Attacks

McClatchy | Steve Lannen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


A Baghdad mental hospital administrator has been arrested on suspicion of supplying mental patients to insurgents for use in suicide bombings, a U.S. ...