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
The United States' plan to provide its Arab allies and Israel with military aid, announced on 31 July 2007, is large-scale by any standards. It includes the provision of
The current media and political attention in Britain is focusing on two main issues. The first is the large-scale flooding across extensive areas of England west of London, which some
Three developments this week involving leading protagonists of the "war on terror" offer important signals of the state of play in key areas of conflict. First, a United
The Iraq war has tumbled to the front of the Washington agenda in an unexpected and intense manner. The publication of an interim report on 12 July 2007 assessing the
The deaths of six Canadian soldiers and their translator in a roadside bomb attack in Kandahar province on 4 July 2007 will further fuel the controversy in Canada over the
It is reported that coalition air-strikes in Helmand province, Afghanistan on 30 June 2007 may have killed between fifty and eighty civilians. This tally - whose exact number is yet
