Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip continue to net more and more casualties, 635 killed based on the most recent reports, and while the operation continues to fail at its stated goal of bringing rocket fire from Hamas to a halt Israeli officials remain in no mood to...
Weeks of moving are finally completed, and the United States has opened its enormous new embassy in Baghdad. Taking over three and a half years to complete and costing in the realm of $700 million, the gargantuan compound is bigger than the Vatican, and the largest...
Israeli forces moved into Gaza City today, sparking major gunbattles with Hamas militants. Tanks rolled through the streets, firing dozens of shells, and local hospitals are filling up with civilians. Witnesses on the ground say the Palestinian forces have attacked...
The French government is reportedly working with the Arab League on yet another draft resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, while also urging the Israeli government to allow humanitarian aid into the strip. According to America's ambassador...
10 days into its attacks on the Gaza Strip, the Israeli government seems to have painted itself into a rather unpleasant corner. Regime change isn't the goal, the government says it has no intention of occupying the Gaza Strip with its thousands of invading soldiers....
10 days into the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, the violence continues to escalate and there is still no end in sight. But as the violence moved into the most densely populated portions of the tiny strip, civilians are increasingly in the line of fire and...
Among the first to break the news Saturday that Israel had begun its ground invasion of the Gaza Strip was a journalist working for an Iranian television station. What did this reporter get for is troubles? Arrested, for one. In a nation with a history of at least...
Freedom of the press in Israel, such as it is, took another hit today as the Israeli Defense Ministry announced that, in spite of an order by the Israeli Supreme Court to allow eight foreign journalists to enter the Gaza Strip, it would continue to keep them out,...
Vice President Dick Cheney squarely denied that Israel asked for permission from the United States before thousands of its soldiers invaded the Gaza Strip yesterday. He was somewhat more evasive on the question of whether Israel informed them of the timing, saying...
Israeli troops fire shells into Gaza City's main shopping district, killing five and injuring dozens. A woman and her four children are killed as the ground invasion begins. Two Gaza boys heating water over a fire are attacked. A missile hits a rural house wounding...
