Iraq Looking To Restrict Movement Of US Troops
Iraq said on Friday it would not grant U.S. troops freedom of movement for military operations in a new agreement being negotiated on extending the pr...
Iraq said on Friday it would not grant U.S. troops freedom of movement for military operations in a new agreement being negotiated on extending the pr...
AP | CHELSEA J. CARTER | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — A military jury acquitted a Marine intelligence officer Wednesday of charges that he tried to help cover up the killing...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.04.2008 | Home
The U.S. military suffered enormous embarrassment when the New York Times reported that a contract to arm the Afghan forces worth nearly $300 million ...
AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 06.02.2008 | Home
BAGHDAD — A suicide car bomber targeted the provincial police headquarters in Mosul on Monday, killing at least nine people and wounding dozens,...
Ray Kimball | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics
For a soldier, there is a fine line between debating the issues of the day as a concerned citizen and injecting yourself into the partisan fray.
AP | JOE MILICIA | Posted 05.25.2008 | Home
RITTMAN, Ohio — The cracking of rifle fire silenced the twittering blue jays, blackbirds and killdeer. As members of the color guard lowered the...
AP | GENE JOHNSON | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics
SEATTLE — The military cannot automatically discharge people because they're gay, a federal appeals court ruled in the case of a decorated fligh...
USA Today | Jim Michaels | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
Iraq is becoming one of the largest customers for U.S. arms, as the country turns from Soviet-bloc weapons to pricier but more sophisticated American ...
AP | LEE KEATH | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Iran angrily blamed the United States on Friday after at least three of its diplomats were wounded in a Baghdad shooting, saying the A...
James Wright | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics
American colleges and universities must urge Congress and the president to support legislation that will give veterans the educational opportunities that they have more than earned.
Think Progress | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics
For quite some time, U.S. troops have supported repealing the military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" (DADT) policy. A December 2006 poll of servicemembers...
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics
The same Pentagon that sent our men and women into battle underequipped and without enough body armor is at it again, wanting to limit benefits in order to help "retain" troops.
AP | BRADLEY BROOKS | Posted 05.03.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — The U.S. military fired guided missiles into the heart of Baghdad's teeming Sadr City slum on Saturday, leveling a building 55 yards a...
Washington Post | Ann Scott Tyson | Posted 04.26.2008 | Politics
The nation's top military officer said yesterday that the Pentagon is planning for "potential military courses of action" as one of several options ag...
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics
McCain has changed from talking about the war to being defined by it, from telling a lie to becoming the lie.
Ray Kimball | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics
More and more junior officers see the kind of political and moral compromise that seems to come hand-in-glove with the attainment of senior rank, and want no part of it.
AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Military interrogators assaulted Afghan detainees in 2003, using investigation methods they learned during self-defense training, P...
Phillip Martin | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics
An added barrier to getting to know Iraqis beyond skin color and stereo-types is the wholesale ignorance of Islam.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics
If you want to know why McCain is called a patriot, it's because in the all-volunteer military era he can claim special exemption from common sense in the name of past service.
AP | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — The Iraqi military says a suicide bomber has attacked a checkpoint near Mosul, killing seven people and wounding 12. The U.S. militar...
Washington Post | Ann Scott Tyson | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics
Senior Army and Marine Corps leaders said yesterday that the increase of more than 30,000 troops in Iraq and Afghanistan has put unsustainable levels ...
Rep. Jane Harman | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics
Women serving in the U.S. military are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire in Iraq.
Lorelei Kelly | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics
We need to get over the collective eight-year-old-boy admiration of fighter pilots and commandos and get to work on brainwashing the rest of the world into not fighting us in the first place.
Reuters | Posted 03.05.2008 | Home
A Russian bomber aircraft approached a U.S. aircraft carrier off the Korean coast on Wednesday and was intercepted by American fighter jets -- the sec...
Robert Koehler | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics
"Toughness" and strength through militarism speak to the myth of nationalism but will get us only deeper into the quagmire that President Bad Example has bequeathed us as his legacy.
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic...
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"How honest are we if we tell the truth most of the time &...
Obama's been to Hawaii. We're moving...
I've read the comments. I know what some of you think. Yawn. It's not a story. He's not...
LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one...
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Cleveland Clinic official says Democratic U.S....
NEW YORK — The suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat,"...
USA Today reports that inventors, despite the clashing designs of airplanes...
There are over 6 billion people of people on the...
Last year I praised Rebecca Taylor and...
NAPLES, Fla. — Tropical Storm Fay rolled ashore in southwestern Florida on Tuesday without...
Reuters | Michael Georgy | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics