Iraq
Democrats have finally found their man to run for the U.S. Senate seat in Texas. Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo, the former commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, announced today that he will run for the open seat, currently held by retiring ...
BAGHDAD -- Iraqi lawmakers approved a controversial $400 million settlement Saturday for Americans who claim they were abused by Saddam Hussein's regime during the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. The settlement is part of a deal reached ...
President Obama's speech on Mideast policy was greeted mostly with derision Thursday in Sahara, a Baghdad cafe where people drink coffee and smoke flavored tobacco in water pipes. Many in the audience mocked the U.S. president's words.
Publicly, the US's backing of the pro-democracy uprisings in the Middle East often consists of a statement saying that people must determine their own future. Behind the scenes, though, it is widely acknowledged there is a lot more ...
The United States' pleas for Iraq's government to decide “within weeks” whether American troops should stay beyond a year-end deadline to leave will not be met, Iraqi politicians say, complicating plans for the U.S. military withdrawal.
After the excitement dies down, deficits will be the hot topic again. But Bin Laden's death reminds us of another moment when all of Washington's leaders, and all of the great media outlets, forged a "bipartisan consensus."
Amid heightened concerns that Iraq's democracy is becoming increasingly vulnerable to an array of internal political and economic threats, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki strongly repeated his stance that the remaining 50000 US ...
The Islamic State of Iraq, Al-Qaeda's front group in the country, posted a statement on the Internet jihadist forum Honein last week, claiming to have carried out 62 "operations" between the start of March and April 5. ...
As the deadline for all U.S. troops to leave Iraq draws nearer (the end of this year), neocons are starting to get a little nervous. Earlier this month, Washington Times editorial page editor Tony Blankley said that it would be a ...
BAGHDAD — The U.S. military says two American soldiers have been killed while conducting operations in southern Iraq. In a statement, released on Saturday, the military says the deaths occurred Friday.
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