President-elect Barack Obama will face the decision of whether or not to renew Blackwater Worldwide's contract to provide security for the State Department in Iraq when it expires in the spring, but if a State Department advisory panel has anything to say about it,...
US attacks house, kills three “suspects,” including a woman and a 15-year old boy.
Besides making an international celebrity out of Iraqi reporter Muntadar al-Zeidi, the now infamous shoe-throwing incident is cropping up in surprising ways across Iraq, where a population beaten and exhausted from years of war is once again finding its voice against...
Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, the Speaker of Iraq's parliament, announced his resignation today after a chaotic session of debate on whether to free the now legendary shoe-thrower of Baghdad, journalist Muntadar al-Zeidi. Arguments were reportedly heated, with some MPs...
Coalition of the Willing Down to One by Summer
Israel will dispatch top diplomatic official Major General Amos Gilad to Russia for meetings with high ranking military and diplomatic figures in an attempt to halt a rumored sale of its S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to Iran. The highly advanced system would make...
Muntadar al-Zeidi hospitalized for a broken arm, multiple broken ribs.
Pakistan’s oldest religious party plans to stop NATO supplies from entering Afghanistan
Hamas approves the first bank to be licensed independent of the PMA in the Gaza Strip
The Israeli government held UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Richard Falk for over 20 hours at a Tel Aviv airport, before eventually putting him on an airplane bound for Los Angeles. UN officials complained of the envoy's treatment,...
