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Highlights
 
Seeing No Results, US Mulls Pulling Troops From Af-Pak Border    Palestinian PM Fayyad Seen at Risk to 'New' Fatah    Iran Seeks Global Ban on Attacking Nuclear Sites    US Marines Attack Taliban-Held Town in Southern Helmand    Cheney Uncloaks His Frustration With Bush    Another Soldier Refuses Afghanistan Deployment    A Window Into CIA's Embrace of Secret Jails    23 Filipino Soldiers Killed in Fierce Clashes    As Afghan Vote Nears, Taliban Intimidation Rises    Dyncorp Billed US $50 Million Beyond Costs in Defense Contract    Disputed Toll as Pro-Govt Tribes, Militants Clash in South Waziristan    DNA Tests Confirm Indonesian Terror Leader Not Dead    Putin Pledges Military Aid to Abkhazia    Ecuador Reinforces Border With Colombia    Addicted to War: America's Brutal Pipe Dream in Afghanistan    Pakistan, Seen Stalling, Says Wants Nukes Banned    Getting Away With Torture    The Thirty Years' War    Fatah Wraps Up Congress With Israel Split    UN Chief: Protect Civilians During Armed Conflicts    Russian Paper Halts Chechnya Coverage After Killings    US Commander Criticizes Filthy British Troops for Lack of Showers, Too Many Injuries    Baloch Leader Forms Council for Independent Balochistan    Under Pressure from Hawks, Obama Glares at Iran    Karroubi 'To Present Evidence of Jail Rape'    Israel Starved Gaza of Power and Water    Taliban Drug Proceeds Lower Than Thought, US Report Says    Ukrainian Follies: Creating More Needless Defense Dependents    Wag The Dog, Again    Inching Toward Compromise in the Middle East    Report: Obama Officials to Tour Michigan Prison for Possible Gitmo Transfer    US Sees Limited Iranian Hand in Afghan Insurgency    Pakistan Military Not Capitalizing on Taliban Disarray    Kurdish Mag Sparks Wrath by Urging Jews to Return    Ex-ISI Chief Says Purpose of New Afghan Intelligence Agency Is 'To Destabilize Pakistan'    What's Happening in the Afghan Massacre Probe?    Eric Holder's Cover-Up    China Warns of 'Arms Race in Outer Space'    Rural NC Schools Let Quaker Counter Recruiting Pitches    ACLU Blasts Proposed Federal Cookie Policy    
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News
Updated August 13, 2009 - 9:09 PM EDT
Under Pressure from Hawks, Obama Glares at Iran
 
  Iran Seeks Global Ban on Striking Nuclear Facilities
  Iran Speaker Denies Prisoner Rape Allegations
  US Sees Limited Iranian Hand in Afghan Insurgency
No Results: US May Pull Af-Pak Border Force
 
  Bombs Kill 14 Civilians in Southern Afghanistan
  US Marines Attack Taliban-Held Afghan Town
  Taliban Drug Proceeds Lower Than Thought, US Report Says
  US May Arm Afghan Air Corps With Drones: General
Iraq Moves to Ban Books, Censor Internet
 
  Suicide Bombers Kill 20 in Northern Iraq
  Major Problems Cited in Iraq Interpreter Contract
Disputed Toll as Pak Govt Tribes, Militants Clash
 
  US Sees Signs of Disarray Within Pakistani Taliban
  Pakistan, Seen Stalling, Says Wants Nukes Banned
Putin Pledges Military Aid to Abkhazia
DNA Tests: Indonesian Terror Leader Not Dead
A Window Into CIA's Embrace of Secret Jails
Viewpoints
Ukrainian Follies: Creating More Needless Defense Dependents  by Doug Bandow
Inching Toward Compromise in the Middle East  by Ira Chernus
Ex-ISI Chief's Purpose of New Afghan Intel Agency 'To Destabilize Pakistan'  by Jeremy R. Hammond
The Thirty Years' War
by Robert Dreyfuss
Eric Holder's Cover-Up
by Jacob G. Hornberger
Getting Away With Torture  by Deepak Tripathi

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Frontline
Pakistani Preachers Killed in Somalia
ACLU Blasts Proposed Federal Cookie Policy
US Commander Criticizes British Troops for Lack of Showers, Too Many Injuries
Cheney Uncloaks His Frustration With Bush
UN Chief: Protect Civilians During Armed Conflicts
Make Breaking, Leaving Nuke Treaty Harder: US
 
The War at Home
Dyncorp Billed US $50 Million Beyond Costs in Defense Contract
US Leadership Alone Won't Solve World Crises: Rice
Another Soldier Refuses Afghanistan Deployment
US Assumes Command of Anti-Piracy Task Force
Gonzales Says He Would 'Do Some Things Over'
Iraqi Immigrants Face Lonely Struggle in US
Rural NC Schools Let Quaker Counter Recruiting Pitches
'War on Terror'
British Government Denies Reports Lockerbee Bomber to Be Freed
Report: Obama Officials to Tour Michigan Prison for Possible Gitmo Transfer
Atlanta Jury Convicts Man of Aiding Terror Groups
Iraq
TV Station Fined for Misquoting Official in Iraq
Curfew Imposed in Ramadi
Kurdish Mag Sparks Wrath by Urging Jews to Return
Iraq Aims to Ban Dual Citizenship for Top Officials
Swine Flu Cases Climb Among US Soldiers in Iraq
Iraq Horse Track Defies the Odds
Iraqi PM to Visit Syria for Security Talks
Wednesday: 18 Iraqis Killed, 31 Wounded
Iran
Iran Reformists Seize on Prisoner Abuses
Karroubi 'To Present Evidence of Jail Rape'
Pro-Reform Party Blames Iran's President for Abuse
Iran Suggests Jailed French Woman May Make Bail
Iran Opposition Leader Calls for 'Deep Change'
Diplomat: Iran Opposes US Base Deal for Colombia
Palestine/Israel
Palestinian PM Fayyad Seen at Risk to 'New' Fatah
Fatah Wraps Up Congress With Israel Split
Hamas: No Large Presence of Foreign Islamic Militants in Gaza
Israel Starved Gaza of Power and Water
New Fatah Leaders Likely in Line With Obama
Israeli Opposition Leader Slams Calls for Release Barghouti
Syria
Deputy FM: Israel Will Hold Only Direct Talks With Syria
Syria Plays Mediator in Iran-France Tensions
US Delegate in Syria for Talks on Iraq, Regional Security
Lebanon
Hariri Says Progress Made in Lebanon
Israeli Cluster Bomb Wounds Two Lebanese Brothers in South Lebanon
Yemen
Yemeni Forces Bomb Shi'ite Rebels Near Saudi Border
Yemeni Freed From Gitmo in Critical Condition
 
Afghanistan
As Afghan Vote Nears, Taliban Intimidation Rises
American Forces Scramble to Expand Security Before Afghan Vote
Seven Police Killed in Afghanistan: Officials
2 AP Journalists Wounded in Afghanistan Bombing
What's Happening in the Afghan Massacre Probe?
In Afghanistan, a Test of Tactics
New Army Handbook Teaches Afghanistan Lessons
General: Afghan Airmen Preparing to Fight
Dame Vera Lynn Says Britain's Afghan Campaign Makes No Sense to Her
Pakistan
Pakistan Military Not Capitalizing on Taliban Disarray
Baloch Leader Forms Council for Independent Balochistan
Explosion, Gunfire at Pakistan Checkpoint Kill 2
India
Mumbai Attack Justice High Priority for Obama: Diplomat
FBI Expert Testifies at Mumbai Terror Attack Trial
Indonesia
Hunt Resumes for Indonesian Terror Suspect
Jakarta Hotel Florist Plotted Deadly Bombings
China
China Warns of 'Arms Race in Outer Space'
For China, Far West Is Rife With Terror Plots
Chinese Artist Says He Was Barred From Rights Advocate's Trial
Asia
23 Filipino Soldiers Killed in Fierce Clashes
Sri Lanka's Spies in War to Crush Rebel Remnants
Suu Kyi's Detention Splits East and West
Freed Reporter: Spread Word of Others Incarcerated in North Korea
Russia & Her Neighbors
Russian Navy Joins Hunt for Hijacked Cargo Vessel
Minister in Russia's Caucasus Shot Dead in Office
Director of Children's Charity Found Shot to Death in Chechnya
Russian Paper Halts Chechnya Coverage After Killings
Russian Army Drills to Defend Oil, Gas Exports
Georgian Officials Slam Putin Over Abkhazia Visit
Russia Hostage to Its Imperial Past: Ukraine
Remote Russian Region Builds on Billionaire's Legacy
Amnesty Urges Russia to 'Stop Hunt' on Human Rights Activists
Americas
Ecuador Reinforces Border With Colombia
Curfew Imposed After Honduras Protests
Mexico's Supreme Court Overturns Massacre Verdicts
Africa
Two Sides of Nigeria Addressed by Clinton
Rwanda Genocide Suspect Arrested in DR Congo
 
Columnists

Justin Raimondo
8/12/2009
How I Wrote 1,000 Columns for Antiwar.com

Philip Giraldi
8/13/2009
Wag The Dog, Again

Charles V. Peņa
8/12/2009
The Ever Present Military Option

Kelley B. Vlahos
8/11/2009
No Color-Coded Revolution for Afghanistan

Ivan Eland
8/08/2009
Treat North Korea As a Child Psychologist Would

Nebojsa Malic
8/05/2009
The Lessons of August

Ran HaCohen
7/20/2009
Fascism Needs an Enemy

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

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

Edouard Husson
5/22/2009
The Virtues of Gorbachevism
Additional Contributors
Ehsan Ahrari
Doug Bandow
Uri Avnery
Matthew Barganier
Patrick J. Buchanan
Juan Cole
Jonathan Cook
Christopher Deliso
Sibel Edmonds
Tom Engelhardt
Mike Ewens
Joshua Frank
Aaron Glantz
Leon Hadar
Jorge Hirsch
Scott Horton
Dahr Jamail
Kathy Kelly
William S. Lind
Jim Lobe
Ray McGovern
Thomas Gale Moore
Brendan O'Neill
Rep. Ron Paul
John Pilger
Murray Polner
Gareth Porter
Gordon Prather
Charley Reese
Paul Craig Roberts
Mark Rothschild
Michael Scheuer
Norman Solomon
Paul Sperry
Joseph Stromberg
Jon Basil Utley
Jude Wanniski
Teresa Whitehurst
Andy Worthington


 
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