Armytimes | BAGHDAD — U.S. troops opened fire on a car in western Baghdad, killing an Iraqi journalist and her husband, a police official said Thursday. Morgue officials confirmed the deaths and said the bodies of Aseel al-Obeidi and her husband were riddled with bullets in Wednesday’s shooting in ...

presstv | he US House of Representatives has rejected an effort by anti-war lawmakers to force a withdrawal of all US troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year. On Wednesday, Sixty-five lawmakers, most of them Democrats, voted for the pullout resolution, while 356 voted against. The res...

rumormillnews.com | Ex-MI5 head: US hid torture tactics from UK 10 Mar 2010 A former head of MI5 has accused intelligence services in the US of deliberately hiding the mistreatment of terror suspects from their British allies. Baroness Manningham-Buller, giving a lecture in London last night, said t...

rumormillnews.com | It would be interesting to create a poll with these two photos and have people guess what's happening. Most would never assume anything close to the real story. It appears to be a joyous homecoming, a reuniting of mother and son. The truth is not so heart warming. The lady in th...

He [Colin Allen] told The Daily Telegraph: “The question they want answered is whether we can build automated weapons that would conform to the laws of war. Can we use ethical theory to help design these machines?” Pentagon chiefs are concerned by studies of combat stress in Iraq that show high pro...

.jpost.com | Iran is building a new rocket launch site with North Korean assistance, Israel Radio quoted IHS Jane’s as reporting overnight Friday. The new launcher, constructed near an existing rocket base in the Semnan province east of Teheran, is visible in satellite imagery, according to the r...

.michaelmoore.com | WASHINGTON — A senior Senate Democrat said Thursday the Pentagon should consider barring Blackwater, now called Xe Services, from a new $1 billion deal to train Afghan police because of "serious questions" about the contractor's conduct. The comments by Senate Armed Services Com...

politicsdaily | Karl Rove, the White House adviser whom George W. Bush called his political "architect," admits in a new memoir that the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq severely damaged the Bush presidency -- and he suggests the war might not have occurred had Bush actually known...

Ethiopia, March 3 (UPI) -- Millions of dollars in Western aid meant for victims of the Ethiopian famine of the mid-1980s instead went toward purchasing weapons, a report says.   The BBC, citing interviews with former rebels and CIA documents, said militant leaders had posed as merchants in me...

JERUSALEM, March 3 (Reuters) - The Israeli military called off a raid in Palestinian territory after a soldier posted details, including the time and place, on social networking website Facebook, Israel's Army Radio reported on Wednesday.   The soldier -- since relieved of combat duty -- desc...

, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- Washington needs "a range of options" to counter the growing nuclear ambitions of Iran, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.   U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen said U.S. defense planners needed a variety of options to contain Iran, but emphasized the use of diplomatic ...

Pravada | Just one look at the map will tell you...something ominous is brewing. Iran is completely surrounded by elements of the evil empire. Iran is on a hit list. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the empire has drawn up a hit list after which several countries, one after the other, have...

(MILITARY TIMES)   U.S. missile defense plans are a threat to Russian national security and have slowed down progress on a new arms control treaty with Washington, Russia’s top military officer said Tuesday. Gen. Nikolai Makarov said that a revised U.S. plan to place missiles in Europe un...

RussiaToday | The US is not going to stop the production of drugs in Afghanistan as it covers the costs of their military presence there, says Gen. Mahmut Gareev, a former commander during the USSR's operations in Afghanistan.

GAURDIAN | British forces are relying increasingly on unmanned drones to attack targets in Afghanistan, mirroring controversial tactics used by the US.New Ministry of Defence figures show the RAF has fired 84 missiles from Reaper drones since they were first deployed there in June 2008, with more th...

9:43pm UK, Tuesday January 26, 2010 Miranda Richardson, Sky News Online In a written statement Sir Michael Wood, who was the Foreign Office's chief legal adviser in the run-up to the conflict said: "I considered that the use of force against Iraq in March 2003 was contrary to international law. "...