Iraq Security Forces Detain Local Al-Qaeda Leader West of Central Baghdad
Iraqi security officials detained a senior local al-Qaeda leader just west of central Baghdad, state-sponsored al-Iraqiyah television reported.
U.S. moves into final Iraq phase
HAWIJA, Iraq – Even as President Barack Obama was announcing the end of combat in Iraq, American soldiers were sealing off a northern village early Wednesday as their Iraqi partners raided houses and arrested dozens of suspected insurgents.
Iraq’s Stalled Government: Which Blocs Will Form Core?
Listen to the Audio Margaret Warner reports from Baghdad on the growing frustration among Iraqis — and allies — that a government has yet to be formed five months after parliamentary elections. JIM LEHRER: And now again to the latest on Iraq from Margaret Warner. She reports from Baghdad on Iraq’s political stalemate. MARGARET WARNER: The book market along Baghdad’s Mutanabi Street is a …
Gates meets US troops in Afghan Taliban heartland
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates Friday met US soldiers at the “tip of the spear” in the Taliban’s Afghan heartland as a pivotal surge of 30,000 extra troops neared completion.
As Iraq combat operations end, US forces try to cement gains
While Iraq combat operations are over, the 50,000 remaining US soldiers in Iraq are looking to cement their achievements by sending out small groups of advisers to help improve Iraqi Army performance.
U.S. operation in Iraq is over: controversial results
U.S. President Barack Obama has kept his election promise so far: the U.S. is currently on track to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of 2011. In what state will the United States leave Iraq? Dr. Alexander Shumilin (Ph.D. in History) heads the Center for Middle East Conflict Analysis at the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies. In an interview with Samir Shakhbaz, he speaks about …
U.S. experts reflect on strategic lessons from Iraq war
As the U.S. combat mission in Iraq officially ended Tuesday, U.S. experts are wondering what strategic lessons the United States has learnt from a conflict that cost thousands of American lives and, according to some estimates, a few trillion U.S. dollars.
Iraqi army needs US help: commanders
Iraq cannot yet sustain its army despite having managed to quell a violent insurgency, US and local commanders told AFP, raising the prospect that American troops will stay on beyond 2011.
Can Iraq Lessons Learned Work In Afghanistan?
As the combat mission ends in Iraq, 30,000 additional troops are heading to Afghanistan. Comparisons between the two wars are inevitable. Gen. David Petraeus, who commanded U.S. forces in Iraq, brings to Afghanistan many familiar military faces and the strategy of creating local forces to take control of security at the grass-roots level.
Suicide bomber kills 22 at Shiite rally in Pakistan
At least 22 people were killed Friday in a suicide attack targeting a Shiite Muslim rally in Pakistan’s southwest city of Quetta, the latest in a string of sectarian attacks.
Obama’s Post-Iraq World
America downsizes its ambition in an age without surrender ceremonies.
Sara Paretsky publishes 14th Warshawski mystery
Sara Paretsky’s latest installment in her series about feisty, female private detective V.I. Warshawski opens with the heroine outside a Chicago nightclub, the bloody body of a woman who was just shot to death in her arms.
