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Washington isn't taking "the common bargain" of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty as seriously as it once did, and that's dimming global support for the U.S. campaign to shut down the North Korean and Iranian nuclear programs, the former chief U.N. weapons inspector said.
Former U.N. chief arms inspector Hans Blix urged Iran and Israel on Monday to support a ban on nuclear enrichment across the Middle East as a possible compromise on curbing Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
The first of Iran's presidential hopefuls put their names forward to stand in the June 17 battle to succeed incumbent reformist Mohammad Khatami, with suspense still surrounding the intentions of top cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
An Islamic militant group said it was holding a badly wounded Japanese man after an ambush near a U.S. base in Iraq, but Japan's government said on Tuesday the incident would not affect its troop deployment in the country.
Two of Washington's staunchest allies in Iraq grappled with hostage crises on Tuesday as Japan confirmed one of its citizens was missing and a deadline set by the captors of an Australian passed with no word on his fate.
A Marine task force swept through a wide area of western Iraq near the Syrian border, killing 100 insurgents and raiding desert outposts and city safe houses belonging to insurgents who have used the area to import cars, money, weapons, and foreigners to fight United States and Iraqi forces in Baghdad, Mosul and other cities, American military officials said Monday.
A combination of coalition and Iraqi forces track down, capture, and secure a vehicle born improvised explosive device in Tikrit, Iraq before it is detonated by insurgents. Soundbites from 1.) First Lieutenant Eric Belisle, 3rd/133rd Field Artillery Regiment from San Antonio, TX 2.) Sergeant Jose Pena, Team Leader of the 133rd Field Artillery Regiment 3.) Sergeant First Class Gary Sundgren, Platoon Leader of the 133rd Field Artillery Regiment from Liberty, TX. Video from the 22nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment.
Iraqi Army Soldiers from the Baghdad, 1st Infantry Battalion, 2nd Infantry Brigade of the 6th Iraqi Army Division, found a large weapons cache and detained 4 individuals during an early morning raid May 9 in north central Baghdad.
A car bomb exploded in a business district of central Baghdad on Tuesday morning, and a police officer said at least seven people were killed and 16 wounded.
If a man-bites-dog story is news and dog-bites-man isn't, why are journalists still so interested in man-blows-up-self stories?
I realize that we have a duty to report suicide bombings in the Middle East, especially when there's a spate as bad as in recent weeks. And I know the old rule of television news: if it bleeds, it leads. But I'm still puzzled by our zeal in frantically competing to get gruesome pictures and details for broadcasts and front pages.
...Following the money and resource trail leads a cynic to conclude that that this administration values the lives of its pilots more than its soldiers and Marines. I speak for a generation of former ground soldiers who believe that those who do virtually all of the fighting and dying in this war should receive more attention from those who are paying for it. I sincerely hope they are listening.
Two years ago, there was a moment when the Americans might have molded Iraq after their own desire, for better or worse. Their incompetence surprised no one more than the Iraqis. The country has long since hardened into its own shape, and whether it holds together or breaks into pieces is largely up to the Iraqis who now have it in their hands. But the least debt that Americans now owe Iraq is to realize that the footnotes will control the lives of Iraqis for years to come, with plenty of time left for great improvement or great damage.
KABUL: Some 800 Afghans including 109 women have registered as candidates for the country?s first post-Taliban parliamentary and council elections to be held in September, officials said on Monday.
U.S. forces here are beginning to hand over security responsibilities to the Afghan National Army. As the Bobcats of B Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, pull their troops from the Tarin Kowt area, the ANA's 3rd Kandak, 1st Brigade, 205th Corps, is moving in.
Insurgents trying to escape U.S. Marines took refuge in a cave and killed two Americans during a five-hour battle in eastern Afghanistan that left an estimated 23 rebels dead, the U.S. military said yesterday. The clash, which also involved U.S. attack planes, was the latest in a string of battles that the military says has inflicted heavy losses on insurgents who have intensified attacks since winter snows melted.
Afghan singer Nasrat Parsa died after an attack outside his hotel following a weekend performance at a downtown Vancouver theater, police said Monday. He was 36.
The Marine Corps is recalling 5,277 combat vests issued to troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and Djibouti after a newspaper article raised concerns that they failed a test to determine whether they could stop a bullet.
The planned withdrawal of tens of thousands of U.S. troops from Europe would reduce by nearly one-half the number of bases maintained by the Army in Europe, a senior Defense Department official said yesterday. Ray DuBois, the acting undersecretary of the Army, told a Pentagon news conference that savings gained from abandoning those bases will be reinvested in new facilities for soldiers at U.S. bases.
The transfer of U.S. Army troops from Europe and Asia to bases in Texas would be slowed down under a proposal offered Monday by members of a congressional commission. The commission, composed of six military experts who reviewed Pentagon plans to bring back 70,000 service personnel from overseas bases by 2009, recommended that an Army armored brigade stay in Europe indefinitely.
The Pentagon's plan to withdraw 70,000 troops from bases overseas and transfer them back to the United States could hurt the military's ability to respond to emergencies and threatens U.S. influence in Europe and elsewhere. Those are among the conclusions of a report released Monday by an independent commission in Washington.
The Pentagon on Monday rejected calls by a congressionally chartered panel for a slow-down of its plan to withdraw 70,000 troops from Europe because the plan was not well coordinated.
In a military courtroom in Texas last week was a spectacle worthy of "As the World Turns": Pfc. Lynndie R. England, the defendant, holding her 7-month-old baby; the imprisoned father, Pvt. Charles A. Graner Jr., giving testimony that ruined what lawyers said was her best shot at leniency; and waiting outside, another defendant from the notorious abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Megan M. Ambuhl, who had recently wed Private Graner - a marriage Private England learned about only days before.
An investigation into the sourcing and accuracy of news stories by a freelance journalist at a leading Internet news site concluded that the existence of dozens of people quoted in the articles could not be confirmed.
For the most part, blogging belongs to the underground: obscure writers who opine on everything from cover stories to the selection of the pope. But now, Arianna Huffington is bringing stars into the blogosphere.
Judging from today's horrific debut of the humongously pre-hyped celebrity blog the Huffington Post, the Madonna of the mediapolitic world has gone one reinvention too many. She has now made an online a...
National Public Radio host Garrison Keillor has his knickers in a twist about conservative radio hosts, who he describes in an article in The Nation as ??evil, lying, cynical bastards who are out to destroy the country I love and turn it into a banana republic, but hey, nobody's perfect.?
The incident seemed alarming enough: a breach of a Cisco Systems network in which an intruder seized programming instructions for many of the computers that control the flow of the Internet.
A newborn girl abandoned in a Kenyan forest was saved by a stray dog that apparently carried her across a busy road and through a barbed-wire fence to a shed where the infant was discovered nestled with a litter of puppies, witnesses said yesterday
