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- OAS chief tells Honduras to let Zelaya go back
7:26 pm UN chief seeks release of Suu Kyi July 3, 2009, 7:14 pm UN chief meets Myanmar leaders to discuss Suu Kyi July 3, 2009, 7:57 pm Syria's Assad offers informal invitation to Obama July 3, 2009, 8:26 pm Anti-US protest welcomes Biden to Iraq July
- FBI release new details of Saddam Hussein's life on the run
After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein stayed in Baghdad until he saw 'the city was about to fall.' Months later, he was caught hiding at the same farm where he had fled in 1959 after taking part in an attempt to kill the country's prime
- FBI interviews detail Saddams fear of Iran, WMD bluff
The FBI interviews took place while Saddam, then identified by the FBI as High Value Detainee 1, was held captive by U.S. military forces at Baghdad International Airport between February and June of 2004. Saddam regarded the Iranian threat as so serious
- Failed strategy in Afghanistan
When will the Obama administration stop transplanting the Bush administration's failed methods from Iraq to Afghanistan and Pakistan (US begins major offensive against Taliban, 1 July)? The strategy is the same one Rumsfeld used in Iraq in 2004-06.
- Most Dangerous Job In The World?
(CBS) In seven plus years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, more than five thousand American servicemen and women have been killed. The toll would certainly be much higher, were it not for a group of volunteers with a special brand of courage as CBS News
- Anti-US protest marks start of Biden Iraq trip
BAGHDAD: A fiery protest marked the start on Friday of US Vice President Joe Biden?s visit to Iraq, with supporters of the Shia anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr burning the Stars and Stripes. Biden met General Ray Odierno, the top US officer in Iraq,
- War bill in Afghanistan tops £3.5bn
The costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will be £4.372bn this year, yet the MoD is only receiving a few hundred million pounds in additional funding, MPs have found. In the Commons Defence Select Committee's report on the MoD's main estimates for
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Formerly part of the Ottoman Empire, Iraq became an independent kingdom in 1932. A "republic" was proclaimed in 1958, but in actuality a series of military strongmen have ruled the country since then, the latest being SADDAM Husayn. Territorial disputes with Iran led to an inconclusive and costly eight-year war (1980-1988). In August 1990 Iraq seized Kuwait, but was expelled by US-led, UN coalition forces during January-February 1991. The victors did not occupy Iraq, however, thus allowing the regime to stay in control. Following Kuwait's liberation, the UN Security Council (UNSC) required Iraq to scrap all weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles and to allow UN verification inspections. UN trade sanctions remain in effect due to incomplete Iraqi compliance with relevant UNSC resolutions.
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AP - Vice President Joe Biden pressed Iraqi leaders Friday to do more to foster national reconciliation and offered U.S. assistance in achieving that, as concerns grow that a lack of political progress is fueling violence in Iraq.
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