The issue of Iraq has been rising persistently up the United States political agenda over the past six months, aided by the continuing casualties in Iraq and by Cindy Sheehan&
Three months ago, on 19 August 2005, a Katyusha rocket attack was fired at United States warships anchored at Aqaba in Jordan. The missiles missed their main targets, but killed
In Amman, Jordan, three coordinated hotel bombings on the evening of 9 November killed at least fifty-seven people and injured scores more. In London, on the eve of a government
The recent, rapid deterioration in relations between Iran and western European countries is only partly as a result of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's outspoken comments on 26 October about Israel.
In the week after the relatively trouble-free vote on the Iraqi constitution on 15 October, United States military sources were making positive claims that military as well as political developments
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Major attacks aimed at United States and local security forces in Iraq and Afghanistan this week are a stark reminder of the intensity of the conflicts in the two countries.
On 29 September the United States military commander in Iraq, General George W Casey Jr., gave a relatively straight account to a Congressional hearing of the predicament of his forces
The parliamentary and provincial elections in Afghanistan on 18 September were held amidst less violence than feared, after a summer when Taliban and other guerrilla activities had exceeded that of
The speeches at the United Nations general assembly during the world summit of 14-16 September did nothing to lessen the differences between Tehran and Washington over Irans nuclear ambitions.
The more the United States fights in Iraq, the worse things seem to become.
The past two weeks have seen intense, multiple assaults by many thousands of US troops and
An inevitable effect of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans and along the Gulf coast has been to push the issue of Iraq off the establishment media in the
