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The top U.S. commander in the Middle East warned Congress against setting a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, rejecting the arguments of resurgent Democrats who are pressing President Bush to start pulling out.
The civil reconstruction of Iraq will cost at least $100 billion, US officials in Baghdad told Iraqi contractors who are vying for some of the work. "UN and World Bank estimates approximated Iraq's infrastructure needs to be about $
There is no one on the Joint Chiefs of Staff who has visited Iraq more often than Gen. Mike Hagee, whose term as Commandant of the United States Marine Corps ends Monday. Hagee says he asked his boss again and again who would take charge of those cit
Armed men in military-style uniforms have kidnapped around 100 people from a ministry in the Iraqi capital, prompting the authorities to arrest five police commanders.
Muqtada al-Sadr, the anti-American cleric President Bush once dismissed as the head of a "band of thugs," has emerged as one of the most powerful forces in Iraq, commanding a large militia and a growing political organization.
Insurgent activity in Afgahnistan has risen fourfold this year, and militants now launch more than 600 attacks a month, a rising wave of violence that has resulted in 3,700 deaths in 2006, a bleak new report released Sunday found.
"The main control Congress has is financial," said Pratap Chatterjee, who directs the non-profit group Corpwatch. "Congress can refuse to pay for the war, which is what they did in Vietnam, but they can't really dictate how it'
THE South Korean Government has defied American pressure and refused to join a stop-and-search campaign against North Korean weapons of mass destruction proliferation.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Insurgent activity in Afghanistan has risen fourfold this year, and militants now launch more than 600 attacks a month, a rising wave of violence that has resulted in 3,700 deaths in 2006, a bleak new report released Sunday found
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Sunday said unequivocally U.S. forces need to leave Iraq.
John McCain is suggesting we get deeper into Iraq, send more troops
And you believe – more importantly – that a Democrat-controlled Congress will prevent Bush’s looming war of aggression against Iran? Well, perhaps you’d better check out ....
The Pentagon is conducting a major review of the military's Iraq strategy to determine "what is going wrong and should be changed" to attain US objectives in the war-torn country, the nation's top general said yesterday. (How about
A stunning new death count emerged, as Iraq's health minister estimated at least 150,000 civilians have been killed in the war _ about three times previously accepted estimates.
Signed on to the notion that it was a good war, the right war, executed badly, because Rumsfeld adhered to some bizarre capital-intensive theory of warfare. In other words, if Rumsfeld had simply sent more troops, the outcome would have been differen
Much to the chagrin of the Pentagon's comptroller, Tina Jonas, word has leaked out that the Department of Defense supplemental request for fiscal year 2007 may be as large as $160 billion.
In January, we estimated that the true cost of the Iraq war could reach $2 trillion, a figure that seemed shockingly high. But since that time, the cost of the war – in both blood and money – has risen even faster than our projections anticipated.
Perry said if China and South Korea "did not the provide the coercion" by threatening to cut off their supply of food and oil to North Korea if it completed a large nuclear reactor, the US "might destroy the reactor before it could com
THE Pentagon is speeding up plans for possible military strikes on North Korea’s nuclear program as concern mounts that Arab states are also looking to acquire nuclear technology.
The Army's National Guard and Reserve are bracing for possible new and accelerated call-ups, spurred by high demand for U.S. troops in Iraq, that leaders caution could undermine the citizen-soldier force as it struggles to rebuild.
The U.S. government conducted a series of secret war games in 1999 that anticipated an invasion of Iraq would require 400,000 troops, and even then chaos might ensue.
A group of powerful neoconservatives who urged the Bush administration to invade Iraq now say the White House has failed disastrously.
Last week, a group of current troops, with support from a handful of antiwar organizations, announced plans to petition Congress with a collection of "appeals for redress," which call for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq.
President Bush has not fired any of the architects of the Iraq war. In fact, a review of the key planners of the conflict reveals that they have been rewarded – not blamed – for their incompetence.
The reason Iraq is so bloody today is blamed on many factors. It could be Maliki's weakness and compliance with the militias. It could be because the Americans disbanded the Iraqi Army when they toppled Saddam, or because outside forces, like Sau
UK and US forces have continued to use depleted uranium weapons despite warnings they pose a cancer risk, a BBC investigation has found.
UK and US forces have continued to use depleted uranium weapons despite warnings they pose a cancer risk, a BBC investigation has found.
President Bush reportedly said he would "understand" a preemptive Israeli strike against Iran's nuclear sites. Maariv, citing diplomatic sources, reported that French President Jacques Chirac discussed Iran's nuclear program with Bu
When American voters go to the polls on Nov. 7, one of the foremost questions that should be on their minds is how did the US get into the Iraq mess, which has claimed the lives of more than 2,800 US soldiers and possibly hundreds of thousands of Ira
And why do we need more troops? Because the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are going badly for lack of U.S. troops, and because, says the Standard, President Bush needs to have the strategic option to put ground forces into “Iran, North Korea, Soma
