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BAGHDAD — The U.S. is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline, The Associated Press has learned. The decision to pull out fully by January will effectively end more than eight years of U.S. involvement in the Iraq war, despite ongoing concerns about its security forces and the potential [...]
BAGHDAD — The U.S. is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline, The Associated Press has learned. The decision to pull out fully by January will effectively end more than eight years of U.S. involvement in the Iraq war, despite ongoing concerns about its security forces and the potential [...]
BAGHDAD — The U.S. is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline, The Associated Press has learned. The decision to pull out fully by January will effectively end more than eight years of U.S. involvement in the Iraq war, despite ongoing concerns about its security forces and the potential [...]
Hobbling along between cars in his walker, asking for change and proffering free newspapers in return, it is hard to believe he was once known as ‘The World’s Foremost Authority’. Professor Irwin Corey, comedian, actor and left-wing political activist, strolls along Manhattan’s East 35th Street pan-handling every day, seven days a week, for the last [...]
President Obama today declared Iran will be isolated from the rest of the world and ‘pay a price’ for its alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the U.S. in Washington D.C. His comments follow Saudi Arabia’s own stark warning to Iran that ‘somebody will have to pay the price’ and a U.S. [...]
BAGHDAD — Attacks aimed at Iraqi police, including two in which assailants slammed explosives-packed cars into police stations, killed 25 people Wednesday and maimed dozens in the worst violence in the capital since August. Less than three months before American troops are to leave Iraq, the blasts were a brutal example of the challenges Iraqi [...]
BAGHDAD (AP) — After years of wars, sanctions and drought, farmer Qais Nima Khamis says it’s time to save the dates — and bring back Iraq’s long-regaled fruit palm industry, which once led the world market. Khamis, whose family has been growing the fruit since 1880, is growing hundreds of more date trees this year, [...]
BAGHDAD (AP) — A local government official says four explosions have killed at least six people in the holy Shiite city of Karbala in southern Iraq. Karbala provincial council chairman Mohammed al-Moussawi says he saw the dead at Karbala hospital after the blasts shook the city on Sunday morning. Police and hospital officials confirmed the [...]
WASHINGTON — American combat troops in Iraq may be heading to the exits — or not — but the U.S. government’s enormously expensive intervention there is hardly coming to an end. In a telling sign of how dangerous and chaotic Iraq remains more than eight years after President George W. Bush launched the war against [...]
WASHINGTON — The Republican chairman of the House Armed Services Committee on Monday criticized President Barack Obama’s national security policies as often reflective of a view that “treats American power as the principle adversary, not ally, to world peace.” In a speech to the American Enterprise Institute, California Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon warned that cuts [...]