Updated at 12:38 a.m. EDT, June 10, 2007At least 94 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 130 wounded during violent attacks, including a suicide truck bombing near Hilla and mortar fire on a U.S. detention center. Eleven people were kidnapped in Khalis. Despite...
The South Korean reporter Cha Han-phil stirred up a hornet's nest with a post on his personal blog about "Shameless Chinese People." In the post he describes a scene on a train ride through Henan province that leads him to conclude Chinese people "lack...
As the situation on the ground in Iraq veers out of control, the rest of the Middle East is coming undone – a state of affairs directly attributable to our policy of "regime change" throughout the region. On the western front, Lebanon is teetering on the brink of...
Finally, the great American disconnect may be ending. Only four years after the invasion of Iraq, the crucial facts-on-the-ground might finally be coming into sight in this country – not the carnage or the mayhem; not the suicide car bombs or the chlorine truck...
Rather like the Hotel California in the famous Eagles song, the U.S. will be able to check out of Iraq but never leave if President George W. Bush has his way. He says he hopes Iraq will become like Korea – where U.S. combat forces remain today, 57 years after...
UNITED NATIONS - Faced with an unwinnable five-year war in Iraq, the United States may be looking towards the United Nations to extricate it from the growing military quagmire, according to diplomats and political analysts. "With the war turning out to be a huge...
Three human rights groups sued the US government Thursday to force it to disclose what it knows about the fate of more than three dozen detainees in the "global war on terror" who are believed to have been held by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in...
Updated at 11:55 p.m. EDT, June 8, 2007In an unusually active Friday, 72 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 68 wounded in violent attacks. Two significant bombings occurred in Qurna and Daqqua, while the family of a police official was slaughtered in Baquba. No...
BAGHDAD - With the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq in its fifth year, one leading study estimates that more than 655,000 Iraqis have been killed – with no end to the violence yet in sight. Left behind are loved ones who continue to mourn their loss, as well as what...
Shadows of the Cold War stalked the German spa resort of Heiligendamm this week, as the annual G-8 summit got underway. Relations between Russia and the United States have grown steadily worse for months. The latest animosity can be traced to Washington's belligerent...
