Army Suicides Up 80 Percent Since Invasion of Iraq

The number of suicides in the U.S. Army rose by 80 percent after the United States launched the war on Iraq, according to an analysis published in the British journal Injury Prevention by American military doctors. The number of Army suicides began to trend upwards in...

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Syrian Minister Defects From Assad Regime in Video

A senior official in Syria's Oil Ministry announced in a video message on Thursday that he was abandoning the regime of Bashar al-Assad, in what appeared to be the highest-level defection of a government official since the start of the violence in Syria. Abdu...

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