A clash of views about what to do in Iraq has exploded in Washington in the past month. The advocates of withdrawal are making the running, but there remains a
Most political and media attention this week has remained on the fallout of George W Bush's "stay the course" speech in the context of the continuing
George W Bush's speech at the United States naval academy at Annapolis on 30 November the first of a series of speeches from the president and other senior
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
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
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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
