Less than 2 weeks after President Obama declared an official end to US combat efforts in Iraq, American troops have been involved in several gun battles with Iraqi insurgents. On Sunday US troops aided Iraqi soldiers as they clashed with insurgents northeast of Baghdad. There were no American c... Read more...
At Saturday night’s White House Correspondence Dinner, President Obama delivered some very funny lines (written by others), but about 10 jokes in he jokes about killing people via drones. He mentions that some hot teenage music group was at the dinner. He then mentions that his daughters we... Read more...
War is a known entity in its capacity to warp the value of life for those involved. Dehumanization takes many forms, but few examples are more visceral and enraging than this leaked video of an Apache helicopter opening fire on a group of Iraqi civilians in 2007, at least two of whom turned out to... Read more...
To be an American citizen is very much like being the child of a wealthy and unscrupulous criminal ‘Godfather,’ who appears to be kind and generous to his own children at home, but is unflinchingly treacherous and murderous in conducting his family business, which is based on coercion, dominat... Read more...
President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday signed a major nuclear arms control agreement that reduces the nuclear stockpiles of both nations. The new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty -- known by its acronym, START-- builds on a previous agreement that expired in December... Read more...
(CNN) -- The United States gave Iraq a bit of its long history back Thursday in the form of ancient golden earrings, an old Roman coin, a rifle emblazoned with Saddam Hussein's image and more. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Assistant Secretary John Morton gave the cultural items to Sa... Read more...
Some Iraqi officials are insisting that a controversial bomb detection device works, despite a BBC inquiry in which experts said the item was useless. Britain has banned exports of the ADE-651 and the director of the company selling them was arrested and bailed. But the device is still being u... Read more...
An Army Specialist has been thrown in jail, after being accused of making threats against other soldiers in a rap song. Iraq war veteran specialist Mark Hall was based at Fort Stewart, Georgia. He's been in custody since December, charged with “conduct prejudicial to the good order and dis... Read more...
A federal judge dismissed manslaughter charges Thursday against five Blackwater security guards in the 2007 deaths of Iraqi civilians in a Baghad square, finding that prosecutors wrongly used the men's own statements against them. The September 2007 shootout in Baghdad's Nusoor Square left 17... Read more...