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A U.S. House committee chairman has begun an investigation into the electrocutions of at least 12 service members in Iraq, including that of a Pittsburgh soldier killed in January by a jolt of electricity while...
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As of Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008, at least 4,155 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press...
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A suicide car bomber blasted an outdoor market Saturday in a northern Iraqi city, killing six people and wounding 54, police and hospital authorities said.
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An official in ex-deputy prime minister Ahmad Chalabi’s office says six people were killed in a suicide car bomb attack on the former Pentagon favorite’s...
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The White House on Friday disputed an assertion in a new book by Bob Woodward that President Bush was slow to react to escalating attacks in Iraq, forcefully arguing...
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Other national politicians with children who’ve served with U.S. military in Iraq or Afghanistan include:
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An Iraqi police official says a car bomb apparently targeting the convoy of former Pentagon favorite Ahmad Chalabi has exploded in western Baghdad, killing two...
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Iraq is about to become an unusual common ground for the presidential candidates, despite its divisiveness as a campaign issue. Sons of both vice presidential nominees...
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The Iraqi government reacted sharply Friday to published allegations that the U.S. spied on Iraq’s prime minister, warning that future ties with the United States...
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The Iraqi government reacted sharply Friday to published allegations that the U.S. spied on Iraq’s prime minister, warning that future ties with the United States...
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The White House says President Bush will announce his decision on future troops levels in Iraq next week.
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The phenomenon of female suicide bombers is a gender thing, and the burqa plays an important role in it. The Islamic traditional female garb that cloaks the entire body...
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Iraq’s envoy to Jordan says Baghdad will send planes and buses to bring home 520 Iraqis who fled to Jordan after the US-led invasion in 2003.
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President Bush “rarely was the voice of realism” on the Iraq war and “too often failed to lead,” according to a new book by Bob Woodward...
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As of Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008, at least 4,154 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press...
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Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Thursday that the escalation of U.S. troops in Iraq, which he had opposed, has succeeded in reducing violence...
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The Associated Press has learned that President Bush’s top defense advisers have recommended he maintain 15 combat brigades in Iraq until the end of the year....
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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry students at her former church that the United States sent troops to fight in the Iraq war on a
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Protesters calling for an end to the Iraq war urged others to join their march Thursday night outside the Republican National Convention as John McCain accepts his...
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Britain’s Information Commissioner ruled Thursday that the government must publish memos and e-mails related to a 2002 intelligence dossier on Iraq’s...
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Protesters calling for an end to the Iraq war plan to march outside the Republican National Convention Thursday night as John McCain accepts his party’s...
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Pentagon chief Robert Gates says that if Russia doesn’t pull back from Georgia, it could damage Washington-Moscow relations for years to come.
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Pentagon chief Robert Gates is taking immediate steps to prepare for the first wartime transition of U.S. administrations since 1968 when a conflicted America was at...
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In his 1 1/2 years as Pentagon chief, Robert Gates has made a mark by sacking leaders of the military services at a pace not seen before in the modern era of the U.S....
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When the Turkish army moved into Northern Iraq to destroy PKK positions a few days ago, it had been widely predicted by Turkish commentators that the operation would be...
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The past few weeks have seen the United States of America get into an unpleasant diplomatic tangle with its European allies over the issue of troops contribution in...
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In an earlier topic regarding NATO’s policy over Afghanistan, I had mentioned the growing rift between the member states over the Afghan issue. Many European...
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US hypocrisy is nothing new for all of us. However, it has degraded to the abhorsome extent, as Bush is now planning to change his horizon form Iraq to Iran. Can you...
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Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates are in Russia to talk over the current heat in US-Russian relations over missiles. Most experts are pessimistic about any positive...
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Iraq is still steeped in sectarian violence and millions of Iraqis have left the country already.
The military situation in the Middle Eastern nation is growing worse...
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How messy Iraq misadventure has become for Bush administration can be gauged from the fact that defense secretary has been asked to forget his visit. He has been asked...
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US apprehensions of possible attacks from N. Korea and Iran are imminent as US relations with both countries have soured due to the confrontations on nuclear enrichment...
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NATO members are baffled over the Russian threats to withdraw from the arms treaty that encapsulates the conventional forces in Europe (CEF).
NATO amazed over...
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US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is trying hard to save Bush from another degradation by repeatedly saying Guantanamo Bay prison camp has become so tainted abroad that...
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The war against terror has resulted in the detention by the United States of at least 385 prisoners, among them 14 senior leaders of al-Qaeda, including Khalid Shaikh...
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As violence and anarchy continues to grow and ravage the turbulent Iraq, an additional crew of 2,200 US troops will set off to Iraq to suppress the growing hostility...
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Most Americans may not consider that their government is building an empire, but unilateral actions by its armed forces, trashing the sovereignty of other nations is...
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The US Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is currently visiting Iraq. Today, on the last day of his 3-day visit he met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki,...
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Robert Gates, the newly appointed US defense secretary said that the demand to bring US troops back home is understandable. But at the same time he said that if the...
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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates himself said that the U.S. was not winning in Iraq, a few days back, a statement with which everyone agreed except the White House....
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