In April 2003, days after the fall of Baghdad, British troops in a pair of RAF CH47 Chinook helicopters were on a mission to transport Iraqi detainees to a prison camp under the cover of darkness. Before the end of the night, one detainee had died on board one of the...
Members of the State Department-designated terrorist group known as the Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK) have been welcomed into a former U.S. military base in Iraq thanks to an agreement Washington pushed through with Baghdad. An agreement pushed by the U.S. with the Iraqi...
The Pentagon and U.S. Central Command have begun a preliminary review of U.S. military options against the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad, as violence throughout the country continues to escalate. The most significant violence is reported to have taken...
The role of U.S. special operations forces in Afghanistan may expand considerably as part of the Obama administration's plan to withdraw troops in the next two years, according to a U.S. admiral. Adm. Bill McRaven, the special operations commander who led the raid...
Afghan children are being taught with U.S.-funded textbooks explicitly written to exclude four decades of war in an almost self-satirizing attempt to "bring people together." "There is no mention of the Soviet war, the mujaheddin, the Taliban or the U.S. military...
As the Syrian regime has continued its atrocities against civilians and the armed opposition becomes more emboldened, the calls for a U.S.-led intervention are growing louder. Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry (D-MA), reports Josh Rogin at Foreign...
In a national "Day of Mass Action," Americans protested a seemingly imminent U.S. war against Iran in over 60 cities and towns across the country. In San Francisco, about 600 people participated in the demonstrations, picketing and chanting "No war, no sanctions, no...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta attended an international security conference in Germany this weekend to reassure European allies that recent shifts in the U.S. defense priorities away from Europe will not mean an end to...
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum implied that Iran would drop a nuclear bomb in the United States if it had the capability. At a campaign stop in Missouri, Santorum told a crowd that a nuclear Iran would pose a direct threat, even to Missouri. "Once...
The number of civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan rose for the fifth year in a row in 2011, according to the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) which put the number of civilians killed at 3,000 over the past year. Insurgents fighting occupation...
