More than five years after invading Iraq as a first step toward "transforming" the Middle East, the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush seems to have lost its footing – let alone its unquestioned domination – throughout the region. The...
Updated at 7:20 p.m. EDT, Aug. 4, 2008At least 21 Iraqis were killed and another 26 were wounded during a politically eventful day in Iraq. Two U.S. servicemembers were killed as well. Despite another postponement, a vote on the provincial elections may be imminent....
Updated at 6:40 p.m. EDT, Aug. 4, 2008Three American soldiers were killed and a third one was wounded in separate incidents. At least 21 Iraqis were killed and 31 more were wounded across the country as well. Meanwhile, the Committee to Protect Journalists, a New...
Well, just about everybody in the U.S. hierarchy, from commanders on the ground to the Joint Chiefs to the CIA to Barack Obama to John McCain to members of both parties in Congress, seems to agree now. It's time for the United States to focus on Afghanistan and apply...
The latest report on Iran's uranium enrichment program by the International Atomic Energy Agency, made public in early June, provides strong evidence that the facts on the ground are changing. According to the report, Iran has been making progress in mastering uranium...
The media narrative now being woven around the apparent suicide of U.S. government scientist Bruce E. Ivins – a prominent anthrax researcher who worked at Ft. Detrick's U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases bio-weapons research lab...
Updated at 12:25 a.m. EDT, Aug. 4, 2008At least 36 Iraqis were killed and 63 more were wounded in the latest attacks. One U.S. soldier was killed and other was wounded in a vehicular accident southwest of the capital. In Baghdad, the Iraqi parliament failed to resolve...
In the first hours of dawn, Nader Elayan was woken by a call from a neighbor warning him to hurry to the house he had almost finished building. By the time he arrived, it was too late: a bulldozer was tearing down the walls. More than 100 Israeli security guards held...
Every war has a story line. World War I was "the war to end all wars." World War II was "the war to defeat fascism." Iraq was sold as a war to halt weapons of mass destruction; then to overthrow Saddam Hussein, then to build democracy. In the end...
Despite all the blather about democracy, we did not invent it, do not support it and have, during the recent administration, become less democratic than we were before. We are and always have been too large a country for a true democracy. That's why the Founding...
