16 Die in US Embassy Attack in Yemen

This morning a coordinated car bombing and attack by heavily armed militants on the US embassy in the Yemeni capital of San'a left 16 dead. It is the second attack on the embassy this year, though the first one to actually hit its target. The other strike, a mortar...

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Gates Apologizes to Afghans as Civilan Deaths Soar

United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has issued his "sincere condolences and personal regrets" for the large number of Afghan civilians recently killed by the US and its allies in air strikes. Gates pledged that NATO forces would do more in the future to...

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Maliki Increasingly Beyond America’s Control

We reported earlier this month that American officials had been privately expressing concerns about Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's growing independence. Two weeks have passed, but little has happened to change this trend, and the Los Angeles Times is reporting...

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Odierno Assumes Iraq Command

With General David Petraeus dedicating his full attention to his new role as head of Central Command, replacing Admiral William Fallon who reportedly referred to his eventual successor as "an ass-kissing little chickensh*t," Lieutenant General Ray Odierno today has...

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