Updated at 7:20 p.m. EDT, Oct. 15, 2006 In today’s news from Iraq, at least 94 Iraqis died or were reported dead. Another 89 were injured in violent acts throughout the country. Also, two Marines died today in Anbar Province, three American soldiers died...
LONDON (IPS) – The signs have been emerging thicker and faster of late that the British want to pull out of Iraq altogether, but on Friday a British general set a timeline, and Prime Minister Tony Blair as good as agreed. General Sir Richard Dannatt said in an...
The case for impeaching President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney is far stronger than the case against President Bill Clinton or the impending case that drove President Nixon to resign. With Republican control of Congress, especially of the House where...
NEW DELHI - How is North Korea's atomic explosion, signifying the latest breakout from the global nuclear restraint regime, likely to affect the preceding two breakout cases, India and Pakistan? Eight years after the two South Asian states blasted their way into the...
No one knows exactly how many Iraqi civilians have died from the war's violence since the invasion of their country. The new study from public health researchers at Johns Hopkins University estimates that the number of those deaths is around 601,000, while saying the...
It is the single most important statistic regarding the illegal US invasion and occupation of Iraq. How many Iraqis have been killed? 655,000. 655,000 Iraqis killed as a result of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. I have worked for eight months in Iraq as a...
This year the Israelis and various neocrazy media sycophants have increasingly been comparing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Adolf Hitler. That’s a ridiculous comparison, of course. Iran’s president is almost powerless and occupies in the Iranian...
The president concentrated so hard on the two members of his infamous "axis of evil" that didn't have nuclear weapons that he neglected the one that does. North Korea announced that it would test a nuclear weapon, and now it has done so. I'm sure the North Korean...
(Released under agreement with The Killid Group. With reporting contributed by IPS correspondent Ann Ninan.) KABUL - Anxiety has replaced the hope of a new beginning in Afghanistan's turbulent history two years after Hamid Karzai was made president of the war-torn...
Updated at 6:00 p.m. EDT, Oct. 14, 2006 The violence in Iraq continued late Friday and into Saturday. At least 125 were reported killed and another 19 injured. According to the U.S. military, among the wounded is a soldier who was seriously injured on Tuesday when a...
