Highlights
 
US Strike Kills Dozens of Afghan Civilians    Obama Considers Revamping Military Trials    Britain Tries to Block CIA Rendition Case    In Massive Switch, Lieberman Suddenly Open to Peace    Report: US Taps Sharif to Be Next Pakistani PM    Major Taliban Faction Pulls Out of Swat Valley Peace    Dems Pull Funding to Close Gitmo    Pakistani Envoy Accuses US of 'Slowing Down' War     Air of Relief Lingers Over AIPAC Meeting    US Navy Says Fight Against Pirates Needed Ashore    Porous Border With Pakistan Could Hinder US Troops    Mullen: Afghanistan Is Military's Top Priority    Israel Dispatches Envoys to Soften Hawkish Image    Judge Orders Release of Guantanamo Prisoner    The Influence Game: Lobbyists Eye Iraq Measure    In Baghdad, Iraqis Fear Return of Sectarian Bloodshed    27 'Suicide Attackers' Killed in Buner Operation    Gonzales Says US Should Be Open to Torturing Again    Blasts, Ambush Kill 30 People in Afghanistan    At Least 44 Killed in Attack on Turkish Wedding    Kosovo Calls on Ethnic Serb Refugees to Return    Pakistani Army Flattening Villages as It Battles Taliban    Obama Outreach to Muslims Worries Israelis    Hamas Says It Has Halted Rocket Strikes on Israel    Insurgency Gains in South Yemen    The Threat-Monger's Handbook    UK Was 'Dragged' Into Iraq War, Says Former Top MI6 Official    US Has a 45-Year History of Torture    Torture and Impunity in Iraqi Prisons    The Iraq War Has Been a Monstrous Crime    Dumb Like a Maliki?    What's NATO for Again?    Jane Harman, 'Warrior Against Abuse of Power'    Bush-Era Secrecy Still Hiding Gov't Data    War Zone Contracting Termed Huge 'Failure'    Nepal's Maoist Prime Minister Resigns    GIs Told to Bring Afghans to Jesus    Ignore AIPAC at America's Peril    
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News
Updated May 5, 2009 - 10:49 PM EDT

US Strike Kills Dozens of Afghan Civilians

 
  Blasts, Ambush Kill 30 People in Afghanistan
 

Mullen: Afghanistan Is Military's Top Priority

 

Afghan President Chooses Warlord as Running Mate

 

GIs Told to Bring Afghans to Jesus

Pakistani Army Flattening Villages as It Battles Taliban

 
 

Major Taliban Faction Pulls Out of Swat Valley Peace

 

Porous Border With Pakistan Could Hinder US Troops

  Pakistani Envoy Accuses US of 'Slowing Down' War
  27 'Suicide Attackers' Killed in Buner Operation
  Infiltration Greatest Pakistan Nuke Risk
 

Report: US Taps Sharif to Be Next Pakistani PM

Democrats Pull Funding to Close Gitmo
 
 

Judge Orders Release of Guantanamo Prisoner

 

Bush-Era Secrecy Still Hiding Gov't Data

  Britain Tries to Block CIA Rendition Case
  Obama Considers Revamping Military Trials
Mullen: No Need to Slow US Iraq Troop Drawdown
 
 

In Baghdad, Iraqis Fear Return of Sectarian Bloodshed

 

The Influence Game: Lobbyists Eye Iraq Measure

 

Tuesday: 33 Iraqis Killed

Georgia Says It Halts Army Mutiny, Blames Russia

Israeli Govt Suddenly Open to Peace

Iran Supreme Leader Rebukes President Over Powers

US Navy: Fight Against Somali Pirates Needed Ashore

Viewpoints
Torture and Impunity in Iraqi Prisons  by Jeremy Scahill
Jane Harman, 'Warrior Against Abuse of Power'  by Glenn Greenwald
The Iraq War Has Been a Monstrous Crime  by Seumas Milne
Dumb Like a Maliki?  by Jeff Huber
What's NATO for Again?  by Doug Bandow
US Has a 45-Year History of Torture
by A.J. Langguth

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Frontline

Pentagon's Top Auditor Criticizes KBR Support Work

Senators Accuse Pentagon of Delay in Recovering Millions

US Denies Letting Troops Convert Afghans

Jane Harman Tells Pro-Israel Lobbyists She'll Clear Her Name

Air of Relief Lingers Over AIPAC Meeting

Israel Dispatches Envoys to Soften Hawkish Image

Obama Outreach to Muslims Worries Israelis

 
Today in Iraq
In Iraq's Anbar Province, the Awakening Grapples With a New Role

UK Was 'Dragged' Into Iraq War, Says Former Top MI6 Official

UK Government to Close Lifeline for Iraqi Interpreters in Two Weeks

Iran Shells Iraqi Kurdistan Village in Fight With PKK

Weapons, Explosives Cache Found in Fallujah

Iraqi Journalists Committed to Independent Reporting

Vatican: Pope Won't Visit Iraq

Monday: 15 Iraqis Killed, 24 Wounded
'War on Terror'

Will Charleston, SC, House Guantánamo Detainees?

Berlin Studies Request to Take Guantanamo Prisoners

Gonzales Says US Should Be Open to Torturing Again

The War at Home

War Zone Contracting Termed Huge 'Failure'

US Sends Musicians to War Zones

Alumni Group Demands Stanford Cut Ties With Condoleezza Rice
Iran

Journalist Group: US Reporter Hospitalized in Iran

Iran Dismisses US Threats, Sanctions

Iran Tells Rights Groups Not to Interfere in Saberi Case

Poll: 66 Percent of Israeli Jews Back Attack on Iran

Ahmadinejad Cancels Latin America Trip Without Explanation

Asia

North Korea Says Obama Administration Same as Bush's

Sri Lanka Presses Offensive Against Rebels

Africa

Taylor's Request for War Crimes Acquittal Rejected

Chad, Sudan Agree to Halt Attacks - Officials

Canadian Agents Secretly Interrogated Detainee in Sudan

Is the Darfur Bloodshed Genocide? Opinions Differ

Horn of Africa

Eritrea Says It Does Not Recognize Somali Govt

More Than 200,000 Swedes Sign Petition for Reporter Jailed in Eritrea

French Warship Seizes Suspected Pirates

South Korean Warship Rescues North Korean Vessel Off Somalia
Europe

Kosovo Calls on Ethnic Serb Refugees to Return

Medvedev Brings New Style to the Kremlin

European Union to Reach Out to 6 Former Soviet States in Meeting
US Negotiator Signals Flexibility Toward Moscow Over New Round of Arms Talks

First World War Mass Grave to Be Excavated

Selling the Marshall Plan on Celluloid Post WWII

 
Afghanistan

Italian Troops Kill 12-Year-Old Afghan Girl

US Soldier 'Missing' in Afghanistan

Karzai Registers for Re-Election

Rights Body Warns of Afghan Vote Fraud

Karzai Leaves for Washington for Talk With US, Pakistani Leaders
Pakistan

Pakistani Nukes Are Secure, Mullen Says

Joint Chiefs Offer Mixed Assessment of Pakistan's Security

Pakistan Bill Presented in Senate

Pakistani Envoy Urges US to Deliver on Aid Promises

TNSM: Malakand Peace Up to Govt

Taliban Resume Patrolling in Swat

Facts About Conflict in Pakistan's Swat Valley

Exposed Jihadis Put Pakistan on the Spot

Pakistan's Forgotten Casualties of War

US Seeks Saudi Help in Pakistan

Nepal

Nepal's Maoist Prime Minister Resigns

Five Facts About Nepal's Maoist PM Prachanda

What Next for Nepal After Maoists Quit Government?

'Peace Process'

Netanyahu Committed to Peace, Peres Says

Lieberman Skirts Palestinian State Issue During Europe Tour

Israeli Official Commits to Two-State Solution

Israel/Palestine

Israel Faces a Hard Sell in Bid to Shift Policy

Hamas Says It Has Halted Rocket Strikes on Israel

Israel Publishes Plan to Add East Jerusalem Housing

Israeli Restrictions Prevent Palestinian Police From Pursuing Criminals

Spain: Judge Presses on With Israel Probe

Lebanon

UN to Press Israel to Finally Withdraw From Lebanon Village

Three 'Israeli Spies' Held in Lebanon

Lebanese PM Cites Spy Arrests as Israeli Reason to Withdraw From Ghajar
Middle East
At Least 44 Killed in Attack on Turkish Wedding

Leading Political Prisoner Goes on Trial in Syria

Paraguay

Dictatorship-Era Official Reappears in Paraguay

 
Columnists

Justin Raimondo
5/04/2009
The Spies Who Got Away

Philip Giraldi
5/05/2009
Ignore AIPAC at America's Peril

Alan Bock
5/04/2009
The Empire Slogs Ahead

Ivan Eland
5/02/2009
Has a Stake Been Driven through Neoconservative Foreign Policy?

Edouard Husson
5/01/2009
The German Dilemma

Kelley B. Vlahos
4/30/2009
The Iraq We Leave Behind

Charles V. Peņa
4/29/2009
To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate?

David R. Henderson
4/28/2009
The Case for Prosecuting Bush

Nebojsa Malic
4/22/2009
Confessions and Lamentations

Ran HaCohen
2/18/2009
Abe Foxman's 'Anti-Semitic Pandemic'

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