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At least two Iraqis were killed and 15 more were wounded in today’s attacks. The elections law impassed continues to dominate the news, but two separate criminal cases involving a U.S. soldier and a Blackwater contractor are also getting attention.
World
Iraq
Ever since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected Iran’s president in June 2005 and began using strong rhetoric against Israel, the neoconservatives and the Israel lobby have been trying to provoke a war against Iran, or at the very least persuade the United States and the international ...
World
Israel
Iran
As Barack Obama arrives home from his weeklong tour of East Asia, he confronts a growing list of ever more urgent problems in the Greater Middle East that he inherited from George W. Bush’s "global war on terror."
From Palestine to Pakistan, Obama, who also faces a major fight in getting ...
World
Barack Obama
Israel
Foreign Policy
At least one Iraqi was killed and 11 others were wounded in light violence. The elections law deadlock continues to be the source of most news coming from Iraq.
World
Iraq
United States
In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, movement in the standoff between the two sides can be as often backward as it is forward. The past couple of weeks have seen moves from both sides that have garnered the attention of the world, but forward progress remains elusive.
Not least among these [...]
World
Israel
Bud Day
Massive ordnance penetrator. Sounds powerful, right? This bomb is also known by its initials: MOP.
About a month ago, Congress gave $68 million to the Boeing Corporation to accelerate the purchase and development of 10-12 "massive ordnance penetrators." The Pentagon says that the MOP bombs are ...
World
At least four Iraqis were killed and five more wounded. Also, a man believed to be Egyptian was also killed. These attacks all occurred in Mosul. Two attacks on U.S. targets also took place, but no casualties were reported in those.
World
Iraq
JERUSALEM — Along a wall not about to come down — a hotel no longer a hotel, but an outpost.
The three-story, 36-room Cliff Hotel used to be a favorite for Western pilgrims in search of the "authentic Holy Land flavor" because of its extensive gardens; it was [...]
World
Israel
While conservatives complain about Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other terror suspects from Guantánamo coming to New York for trial, many legal experts and human rights groups are being equally outspoken in their criticism of the "new and improved" military commissions designated to try five ...
World
At least four Iraqis were killed and four more were wounded in light violence. Meanwhile, U.S. General Ray Odierno warned that al-Qaeda in Iraq is becoming less dominated by foreigners as Iraqis take over the group. The most important news today was the rejection of the new elections law.
