A Year in Iraq and Afghanistan New York Times IN 2010, the United States and its allies continued to shift the military focus from Iraq to Afghanistan. ... |
Reuters | The Mideast and US power Left Eye On Books The foes of the US include secular dictatorships like Saddam Hussein's Iraq and Syria, and an Islamic state with some democratic elements (Iran, which, ... The Political Plot: Behind the Revolutionary Wave in the Middle East Obama Doctrine is Failing in the Middle East Start the Twitter Revolution Without Me |
Gunmen assassinate local official in Iraq Xinhua BAQUBA, Iraq, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Gunmen fatally shot an official of a town in the Iraqi eastern province of Diyala on Saturday while Iraqi security forces ... Unknown gunmen pursue attacks in Iraq |
Ex-Blackwater president denies lawsuit claims of excessive force, falsified ... The Canadian Press ... has denied in sworn testimony that the company's contractors regularly used excessive force in Iraq or that officials falsified travel documents. ... |
101st Airborne Division could get 2 years at home between tours as troop ... WHNT (AP) — Soldiers returning to Fort Campbell from Afghanistan this year may get twice as much time at home between deployments as troop numbers in Iraq and ... Bush to sign memoir at Fort Campbell for soldiers |
Carabinieri Training In Iraq Second Line of Defense Claudio Angelelli, deputy commander of the NATO Training Mission-Iraq, and Italian Col. Mauro Isidori, who heads the NTM-I Gendarmerie Division, ... |
CTV.ca | Death toll reaches 51 day after Iraq funeral blast KGAN BAGHDAD (AP) -- Security forces in Iraq are cracking down on traffic in Baghdad's neighborhoods, a day after a bombing at a Shiite funeral killed at least ... Bomb at Iraq funeral kills at least 14 -sources Dozens die in Iraq funeral bombing Iraq: Anger as bomb at funeral kills 48 |
Boston Globe | Iraq refugee returns fell in 2010: UNHCR AFP BAGHDAD — Fewer Iraqis displaced inside and outside the country returned to their homes in 2010 than in the previous year, largely as a result of Iraq's ... 'Iraqi refugees reluctant to return home' UNHCR chief Guterres urges donors to support inter-agency appeal for Iraqi ... UNHCR blames political uncertainty for sharp drop in number of refugees ... |
The Guardian | The imperial war presidency The Guardian Nearly two thirds of US citizens believe that our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq should be ended and that overall military spending should be dramatically ... Never enough support for veterans Afghanistan and Iraq: Two Emperors Without Clothes? National moment for those serving in ongoing wars |
Iraq water shortages raising ethnic tensions AFP KIRKUK, Iraq — A worsening water shortage in Iraq is raising tensions in the multi-ethnic Kirkuk province, where Arab farmers accuse the Kurdistan region ... |