The past week in Iraq has been the worst for the United States since its occupation of the country began four months ago. In addition to the many, now routine,
Western Europe in July and August 2003 has experienced some of the highest temperatures ever recorded. Records have been broken in Germany, France, Britain, and Croatia. Portugal has experienced major
The US Attorney General, John Ashcroft, delivered a warning on 3 August that al-Qaida was still a threat to the United States. This followed the broadcast of a tape, reportedly
Nearly four months after the fall of Baghdad, intensive searching across Iraq has failed to uncover any evidence of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). More surprisingly, there has been virtually
The Iraq war continues to dominate the domestic as well as foreign news agenda in the United States and Britain. In America, criticism over the inclusion of dubious intelligence findings
The security problems in Iraq discussed in recent weeks in this series of articles have shown no sign of easing, and some Pentagon sources are predicting that they will get
The previous article in this series sought to analyse the nature of the security problems facing US forces in Iraq with the aim of assessing whether a full-scale insurgency was
In a speech on 1 July, President Bush acknowledged that US forces would remain in Iraq as a massive and long-term undertaking, facing up to the terrorists, extremists and Saddam
At the end of the long cold war, in 1989, the United States suddenly became the worlds sole superpower. The then United States president, George Bush, quickly welcomed the
In view of the rise in US tensions with Iran, the tortuous path of the Israeli-Palestinian roadmap and the questions facing the Tony Blair government in Britain over Iraqi weapons
The most recent articles in this series have pointed to the problems facing US troops in Iraq as they meet unexpected resistance, and have also highlighted their continuing problems in
In the approach to the war in Iraq the US military rapidly expanded its strength across the Gulf region most notably in Kuwait, Jordan, Qatar, the Emirates and Oman, as
