It is "Black August" for American soldiers in iraq. Devastating improvements in shaped charges and multiple-piled mines used by Sunni Muslim insurgents there have enabled them to inflict massive casualties on U.S. forces.
According to the Iraq Index Project of the Brookings Institution, from Aug...
It has been a crucial, even pivotal, week on the Iraq war in Washington. As the wave of bombing massacres continues unabated in Baghdad, moderate Republicans like Sen. Lindsay Graham of South Carolina have joined mainstream Democrats like Joe Biden of Delaware in coming out angrily against the cur...
Russia and China have joined forces in a major U.N. forum to oppose U.S. plans to develop new space weapons. And the move could herald a far more wide-ranging strategic cooperation between the two nations.
Russia and China have joined forces to urge the U.N. Conference on Disarmament to launch ...