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US Troops in Iraq Find Little Leeway    Marines Face Stiff Taliban Resistance    Under Fire, Ahmadinejad's New VP Resigns    Conflicting Priorities Endanger High-Tech Army Program    Netanyahu's Talk of Peace Finds Few True Believers    Ex-President in Iran Seeks Referendum    Pentagon Seeks Prison Overhaul in Afghanistan    Honduras Interim Leader Rejects Mediator's Plan    Iraq: Nineveh Kurds Threaten Secession    CIA Contractors Threatened to Quit Over Waterboarding    Gates: US Must Prove Afghanistan 'Winnable' in a Year    Israel Rejects US Call, Will Expand East Jerusalem Settlement    Israeli Way of War Inherently Criminal    Palestinian Authority Lifts Ban on al-Jazeera, but Will Pursue Legal Action Over 'Incitement'    Clinton Warns of Terrorist Syndicate, Urges Pakistan Action    German Soldiers Kill Two Civilians in Afghanistan    Israeli Military Pamphlet: Pope Seeking to Wipe Out Jews    Fascism Needs an Enemy    Back to Iraq?    Predictable Chaos as Guantánamo Trials Resume    The Face in the Mirror    Xinjiang Riots Pre-Planned at 50 Places: State Media    The Right to a Guilty Verdict    Celebrating Cronkite While Ignoring What He Did    President Has One Job – and It's Not to Keep Us Safe    How Many More Will Die in Vain Before We Withdraw From Afghanistan?    Sudan Tells Chad Ready for Peace or War After Raid    Kurdish Rebels Kill Four Iran Policemen: Report    South Korea Reaffirms It Seeks No Atomic Weapons    Kazakh Uighurs Hold Mass Protest    US Offensive Reflects Uneasy Run-Up to Afghan Vote    Two Police, 35 Militants Killed in Afghan Unrest    Time to Talk to Taliban: Musharraf    Israel Says Foreign Jihadists Are in Gaza    Soldier Held in Afghanistan Is 23-Year-Old Idahoan    NATO Helicopter Crash Kills 16 in Afghanistan    
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News
Updated July 20, 2009 - 11:29 PM EDT
Gates: Afghan War Must Prove 'Winnable' in Year
 
 

Four US Troops Killed in Afghanistan

  Marines Face Stiff Taliban Resistance
  US Offensive Reflects Uneasy Run-Up to Afghan Vote
  NATO Helicopter Crash Kills 16 in Afghanistan
  German Soldiers Kill Two Civilians in Afghanistan
Israel Slams US Call on Jerusalem Expansion
 
  Israeli Military Pamphlet: Pope Seeking to Wipe Out Jews
  Israel Says Foreign Jihadists Are in Gaza
Under Fire, Ahmadinejad's New VP Resigns
 
  Ex-President in Iran Seeks Referendum
  Kurdish Rebels Kill Four Iran Policemen: Report
Honduras Interim Leader Nixes Mediator's Plan
CIA Contractors Threatened to Quit Over Waterboarding
Viewpoints
How Many More Will Die in Vain Before We Withdraw From Afghanistan?  by Seumas Milne
Israeli Way of War Inherently Criminal  by Uri Avnery
Predictable Chaos as Guantánamo Trials Resume  by Andy Worthington
President Has One Job – and It's Not to Keep Us Safe  by Andrew P. Napolitano
The Face in the Mirror  by Tom Engelhardt
The Right to a Guilty Verdict
by Jacob Sullum

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Frontline
Iraq: Nineveh Kurds Threaten Secession
Pentagon Seeks Prison Overhaul in Afghanistan
Conflicting Priorities Endanger High-Tech Army Program
US Eye-in-the-Sky Joins Beefed-Up Canadian Border
Alaska's Ft. Greely at Center of Missile Defense Battle
Iran to Free Local Staffer of British Embassy: Lawyer
 
Afghanistan
Two Police, 35 Militants Killed in Afghan Unrest
Soldier Held in Afghanistan Is 23-Year-Old Idahoan
Military Condemns Video of Soldier Captured in Afghanistan
Australian PM Reaffirms Afghan Commitment
Pakistan/India
Clinton Warns of Terrorist Syndicate, Urges Pakistan Action
Time to Talk to Taliban: Musharraf
The Faded Roadmap to India-Pakistan Peace
40,000 Displaced Families Have Returned to Swat Valley
Koreas
South Korea Reaffirms It Seeks No Atomic Weapons
North Korea's Hard-Labor Camps: On the Diplomatic Back Burner
Indonesia
Terrorist Attacks Rekindle Indonesians' Anxieties
Jemaah Islamiyah Behind Jakarta Blasts: Police
Why Indonesia's Islamist Radicals Attack
China
Countering Riots, China Snatches Hundreds From Their Homes
Xinjiang Riots Pre-Planned at 50 Places: State Media
China Says Police Killed 12 in Urumqi Rioting
Asia
Kazakh Uighurs Hold Mass Protest
Philippine Troops Rescue Five Kidnapped Workers
Myanmar Detains Dozens of Opposition Members
Singapore Hones Defenses Against New Terror Tactics
 
Palestine/Israel
Hamas and Fatah Delay Unity Talks: Report
Palestinian Negotiator Met Iranian FM: Top Official
'No Difference to US Between Outpost, East Jerusalem Construction'
US Demand for E. Jerusalem Bldg. Freeze 'Surprised' Netanyahu
Gates Visit to Israel Expected to Focus on Iran
Netanyahu's Talk of Peace Finds Few True Believers
Palestinians Forced to Seek Work in Israel
One Killed, Four Wounded in Tunnel Under Gaza-Egypt Borders
Israeli Troops Shoot Unarmed Gaza Civilian Near Border Fence
Palestinian Police Wound Two in West Bank Raid
Iraq
US Troops in Iraq Find Little Leeway
Anti-Qaeda Leader Among Two Killed in Iraq Attacks
Curfew in Mosul's Left Coast Lifted

Monday: 12 Iraqis Killed, 12 Wounded

Sunday: 1 US Marine, 4 Iraqis Killed; 18 Iraqis Wounded
Russia
One Killed in Ingushetia Attack: Report
Chechnya Shooting Kills Policeman, Militant
Europe
US Relations With Norway at Crossroads
Biden to Greet Eager Allies in Ukraine and Georgia
EU Report Into Georgia War Delayed Again
Africa
Sudan Tells Chad Ready for Peace or War After Raid
Coup Leader Wins Election Amid Outcry in Mauritania
 
Columnists

Justin Raimondo
7/20/2009
Back to Iraq?

Ran HaCohen
7/20/2009
Fascism Needs an Enemy

Ivan Eland
7/18/2009
The Sinister Purpose Behind Bush Administration Lawlessness

David R. Henderson
7/17/2009
NPR: 'Murder' a Controversial Concept

Philip Giraldi
7/16/2009
Twittering Revolutionaries

Nebojsa Malic
7/15/2009
Overload

Kelley B. Vlahos
7/14/2009
The Africa Obama Didn't Visit

Charles V. Peña
7/08/2009
Travel Trials and Tribulations

Alan Bock
7/06/2009
Independence, Empire Don't Mesh

Edouard Husson
5/22/2009
The Virtues of Gorbachevism

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