These are cautiously optimistic times for proponents of the United States military effort in Iraq. The "surge" is in its ninth month and on the surface is showing
In the third week of October 2001, the operation to terminate the Taliban regime in Afghanistan was getting underway. United States air-strikes were attacking Taliban military forces, and the CIA
A notable speech by Britain's defence minister Des Browne on 24 September 2007 accepting the need to negotiate with Taliban groups in Afghanistan appeared to be a signal
Almost exactly six years ago, on 7 October 2001, the United States started the war to terminate the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. By mid-November the regime had disappeared from Kabul,
Among the many consequences of George W Bush's "war on terror" around the world, it is easy to forget that two of the most important have
The two most recent columns in this series have focused on the increasing tensions between the United States and Iran, evident in the belligerent statements coming out of Tehran and
The fallout of the war in Iraq has helped to make the George W Bush administration one of the least popular in US political history. The domestic political repercussions are
A war of position in Washington is well underway in advance of the status report on the United States military "surge" in Iraq being prepared by the military
The approaching submission of General David Petraeus's report on the progress of the United States's military "surge" strategy in Iraq refocuses attention on American
President Bush delivered a speech to United States military veterans on 22 August 2007 that invoked the war in Vietnam to support the case that an early exit of US
There's no escaping Iraq. Two incidents in recent days bear heavily on the unending conflict in that country. More broadly, they reveal how the United States administration'
It is summer in Baghdad, with searing temperatures that average 41 degrees Centigrade. There is sunshine too in Washington on the countenance of some of the leading commentators on the
