That possibility has been brought up by a close aide to the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani: KUWAIT, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Iraq's most revered Shi'ite cleric could issue an edict that would ban Iraqis backing a U.S.-appointed council and spark mass protests if Washington...

While enjoying my breakfast coffee this morning, my day was further brightened upon reading an entry by Lew Rockwell at his blog referencing the following New York Times book review by Michiko Kakutani of David Frum and Richard Perle's new warmongering little classic....

While all Iraqis are suffering as a result of this totally unnecessary war, Iraqis of Palestinian descent are perhaps worse off than most of their countrymen. Jo Wilding gives a brief first-hand account of what their lives are like now: She lives in a tent with UNHCR...

Victoria Schofield, a specialist on South Asia, is the author of "Afghan Frontier: Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia." In this commentary for the Daily Star (Lebanon), she discusses the tense and dangerous border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan and how it has...

William Rivers Pitt presents this powerful perpective on who will be the soldier whose death will receive the dubious honor of being The Five Hundred in our continuing tragic war in Iraq. It will be upon us soon. Sometime, likely before January is out, the 500th...

While the War Party cheerfully celebrates the holiday season attending galas and fundraisers, the forgotten wounded deal with the prospects of a New Year very different from the last they celebrated. A Soldier's Return Since the war started, more than 2,300 American...

Kudos to The Army Times: Their Photos Tell the Story, by Jimmy Breslin The Army Times, a civilian newspaper that is sold mainly on military bases and thus reaches the prime wartime audience, uses eight pages of its year-end review, out now, to run photos of all those...

...who doesn't march to the beat of the Pentagon's drummer. It is alarming enough that much of the media have voluntarily fallen into lockstep with the Administration, but not content with that, they now want to silence the remainder who refuse to compromise their...

As if the religious cauldron wasn't already simmering in Iraq, add Bible Belt Missionaries Set Out on a 'War for Souls' American Christian missionaries have declared a "war for souls" in Iraq, telling supporters that the formal end of the US-led occupation next June...

Many American troops serving in Iraq have fallen victim to what has been diagnosed by the Pentagon as leishmaniasis, an endemic parasitic skin afflication caused by biting flies. Iraqis have also been beset with skin afflictions since the war started, but these have...