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The memory of the Vietnam War is holding an increasingly powerful sway over President Obama and his White House team as they explore ways to avoid the surge of troops into Afghanistan urgently being demanded by the US military.
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The Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq has rebounded in strength in recent months and appears to be launching a concerted effort to cripple the Iraqi government as...
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New disclosures about war crimes committed by British army in Iraq are out. A British soldier named Donald Payne revealed some of the crimes committed by the British...
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One of Iraq’s two vice-presidents has vetoed part of the country’s new election law, putting the parliamentary polls scheduled for January in doubt.
Tariq...
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New disclosures about war crimes committed by British army in Iraq are out. A British soldier named Donald Payne revealed some of the crimes committed by the British...
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Gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms abducted and killed at least 13 people in a village west of Baghdad, in what some described as revenge against Sunnis who helped...
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Doctors in Iraq’s war-ravaged enclave of Falluja are dealing with up to 15 times as many chronic deformities in infants and a spike in early life cancers that may...
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That would be the country that spent a trillion dollars — on the invasion and occupation, but also on training and equipping Iraqi security forces, and on ambitious...
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There seems, as with many problems in Iraq, no good answer for Camp Ashraf, as tensions here rise and American soldiers get closer to leaving: what to do with the few...
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Behind-the-scenes U.S. pressure has finally forced Iraq’s leaders to accept a political compromise, with Sunday’s vote in the Iraqi parliament to adopt an...
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Iraq’s parliament ended weeks of debate Sunday and passed a long-delayed law paving the way for the planned January election to go forward, sidestepping a crisis...
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Iraq’s Green Zone has been an Oasis for Western officials in the city since the advent of the war. Secured behind myriad checkpoints and high concrete walls, the...
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It is not known who is responsible for such attacks, as no one is claiming responsibility for them; which doesn’t really make sense as terrorist organizations...
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A new wave of attacks has been wavering around Iraqi cities these days. Massive bombings were reported during the last couple of weeks causing deaths, casualties and...
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Violence in Iraq has been reduced, as Western generals and politicians are keen to point out, but it has not gone away. If anything, it has become more deeply...
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Nearly half of all Iraqis who died in October perished in a single coordinated attack against government offices in Baghdad, a tally by The Associated Press showed...
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A new poll conducted by the Pew Research Center revels an alarming belligerency in the American public. Apparently, several years of agonizing war in Iraq (and...
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Iraqi politicians have been turning up their rhetoric over Kirkuk, the oil-rich city that both Kurds in the north and Arabs in the south want to control.
The dispute...
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Iraq has called for more support from the international community to help it combat insurgent suicide bombings.
Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Sunday’s...
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Many people around the world have been cursed with cringe-inducing names (as this BBC story proves). Some, however, are more unfortunate than others.
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132 Iraqis are dead, more than 500 are injured… Suicide bombers on Sunday caused this huge number of deaths and casualties.
Why and who would do something like this?...
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Fifteen months ago a Sky News investigation revealed growing numbers of children being born with defects in Fallujah.
Concerns were that the rise in deformities may...
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It is a popular joke among American soldiers. “What takes one night to get into, one year to get out of and is not a marriage?” The answer: Iraq.
Over the next 364...
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Monday marks the end of August, a month with both good and bad news out of Afghanistan — and the approach of a key turning point. Civilian casualties caused by...
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A senior American military adviser in Baghdad has concluded in an unusually blunt memo that Iraqi forces suffer from entrenched deficiencies but are now able to protect...
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As the US sends more troops to Afghanistan to try to reverse the growing violence, they are relying on the “clear, hold, build” model of counterinsurgency....
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Roadside bombings and a gun attack killed seven U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan on Monday, providing a grim reminder of the insurgency’s resilience even as Marines...
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The idea to transform a vacant tract near the Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif into a sprawling commercial farm, with miles of strawberry fields and thousands of cashmere...
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For the usually peaceful Norfolk countryside it was a startling sight: a suicide bomber appeared to blow himself up, seriously wounding a passer-by and scaring several...
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“You’ve all heard of strategic communications,” said the high-ranking U.S. official, holding an off-the-record briefing for journalists in Kabul last...
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Around the beginning of May, and after resurgence of violence in Iraq, reports from Iraqi government came to reassure the American withdrawal from urban areas by the...
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In a bid to calm down critical voices from the opposing forces and healing the wounds of survivors of a US air strike, Hamid Karzai the President of Afghanistan, made a...
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The Bush administration is trying to impose on the Iraqi parliament a Iraq-U.S. Security Agreement that would facilitate the continuation of American troops in the...
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Dr.Aafia Siddique earned her P.hd from the prestigeous MIT (USA).Failing to get a job in Pakistan she returned to the USA in Feburary...
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U.S. troops on Monday reinforced a remote military outpost after well-armed militants got inside and killed nine American soldiers in the deadliest assault on U.S....
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Iraq study group report: Key points
1. Bush’s Iraq policy was a disaster
2. There is not military solution to Iraq
3. All factions of Iraq should be involved in...
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