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
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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
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
Introduction
May we first thank you for giving us this opportunity to produce this report. We were surprised and pleased when the International Security Policy Group at 10 Downing Street
Soon after the 11 September 2001 attacks, Anthony Barnett suggested I contribute a short piece to openDemocracy about the impending war in Afghanistan. In the next few days a great
George W Bush's comments on 11 August on United States policy towards Iran have raised fears that his administration might still be prepared to attack Iran's
Washington sources have indicated in the past week that it might prove possible to reduce United States military deployments in Iraq, perhaps by 20,000 troops in early 2006. As
