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In the latest evidence Iran is seriously planning an unconventional pre-emptive nuclear strike against the U.S., an Iranian military journal has publicly considered the idea of launching an electromagnetic pulse attack as the key to defeating the world's lone superpower.
President Vladimir Putin, on a historic visit to Israel, defended Russia's planned sale of anti-aircraft missiles to Syria, insisting that they would pose no danger to the Jewish state.
North Korea is able to mount a nuclear warhead on missiles that could hit the United States, a senior US defense official said in a startling assessment of the hardline communist state's military capability.
President George W. Bush used a rare prime-time news conference to promote two embattled domestic priorities and defend his multilateral approach to the North Korean nuclear crisis.
President Bush offered a rosy assessment Thursday of developments in Iraq, but the reality is that Iraqi politicians spent most of the nearly three months since their widely hailed national election settling old scores and maneuvering for sectarian gains. They dithered as insurgents regained their momentum. This week's declaration by Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that insurgents are as able to wreak havoc now as a year ago calls into question the credibility of his other assertion that the United States and the Iraqi people are "winning" this fight. More than 100,000 American troops patrol the nation and more than 100,000 Iraqi security forces have supposedly been trained, yet guerrillas show increasing coordination in their attacks. We'd hate to imagine what "losing" this fight would be like.
The White House learned a painful media lesson Thursday: Do not launch a press conference on the first night of May Sweeps! CBS, NBC and FOX cut off President Bush, mid-sentence, in several time zones, after sacrificing one hour of prime.
Here is a list of the 37-member Cabinet approved in Iraq on Thursday. Seven posts remain undecided.
Iraq's new prime minister said yesterday he submitted a slate of 36 cabinet members, including seven women, a critical step before the National Assembly votes on a new government drawing in main ethnic and religious groups and ending a three-month stalemate.
From the redoubt of his retirement, former secretary of state Colin Powell is beginning to exact revenge. His sterling reputation was soiled, having lost most of the important battles within the administration during the first term. While he lamented that he had been "deceived" into presenting false information before the United Nations to justify the Iraq war, he acted as the good soldier to the end, giving every sign of desiring to fade away.
One day after Iraq's National Assembly approved the country's first democratically elected government, insurgents launched a series of attacks in Iraq on Friday, killing at least 14 Iraqis and wounding 50, officials said.
...But if the U.S. military is getting better intelligence these days in Iraq, it appears that the militants are too. A recent surge in attacks against Iraqi officials and security forces, Shiite civilians and U.S. troops indicates rebels are successfully using informants to plan such assaults.
An Iraqi militant group said in an Internet posting Thursday it shot dead six Sudanese truck drivers it had kidnapped. A video of the shooting was placed on a website purportedly by the group Ansar al-Sunnah Army but it was not possible to confirm the six men, kneeling on the ground with their heads toward the camera, were killed.
Afghan government troops have captured a key Taliban commander after a brief shoot-out during a raid in southeastern Afghanistan, an official said yesterday.
A military jury sentenced a soldier to death Thursday for a deadly grenade and rifle attack on his own comrades during the opening days of the Iraq invasion, a barrage that prosecutors said was triggered by religious extremism.
Marines testifying on behalf of a comrade accused of murdering two Iraqi detainees praised him Thursday as a model leader who showed compassion for Iraqi citizens.
Some called Marine 2nd Lt. Ilario Pantano the "preppy marine," a charismatic Gulf War veteran-turned-Wall Street broker who cut his long locks and reenlisted in the Marines after several close friends perished in the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attacks.
An Army squad leader accused of premeditated murder in the shooting death of an Iraqi civilian requested a military jury trial Tuesday after withdrawing from a pending plea agreement.
The United States military said it was investigating the shooting and wounding of three civilians by coalition forces in eastern Afghanistan. The three were in a civilian minivan traveling behind a military convoy when it ran into an ambush on Tuesday. According to the military, American troops returned fire on insurgents and hit the civilians, caught in the middle. The government news agency Bakhtar said the troops fired on the civilian car, suspecting them of being behind the ambush.
Belgian doctors sent an Iraqi girl home on Thursday after treating her for leg wounds caused by a bomb during the U.S. invasion -- and sent the 51,570 euro ($66,650) bill to the U.S. embassy.
A blood component recently approved by the FDA to help hemophiliacs control bleeding is now helping soldiers survive traumatic injuries that would have been fatal in past wars, according to Army doctors who studied medical techniques and technology used in Iraq.
U.S. colonel wages perception war by fielding complaints, questions on weekly call-in show. One caller wants to know why she can't attend the trials of her family members. The next claims his house was robbed of 3 million dinars after a raid, and he wants it back. A third asks about Western medical attention for a critically ill child.
