Can you believe Al-Qaeda, world’s largest terror group is frightened seeing its fighters leaving the organization? Recent documents captured by US troops reveals that Al-Qaeda leaders in Iraq show the group has been weakened and that civilian...
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Last month Osama bin Laden had denounced the Awakening movement and all those who are collaborating with the US forces in Iraq. He had termed them as traitors.
These US 'allies' are also called CLCs (Concerned Local Citizens). They are one of the...
Moqtada Al Sadr, the popular Shiite cleric and leader of one of the most feared Iraqi Shia extremist groups, the Mahdi army, is oncourse to become even more influential in Iraqi politics. With reports coming in from inside Iraq that the radical cleric is...
The US government is trumpeting the fact that violence is going down in Iraq; that Bush's 'surge' has worked. The Iraqi government is boasting that the situation in the country has improved so much that those Iraqis who had fled from Iraq are...
Among the US allies in the fight against terror in Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Libya emerged as the two nations with the highest number of soldiers who came to Iraq to help the American soldiers extinguish terror attacks in the area.
Around 60 percent from...
We all know Iraq and Afghanistan as the victims of US 'war on terror'. However, in these two countries, there is another war going on except this. Well, you may question which one, and right, however, this another war goes on.
Yes, this is a...
Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez's assessment of the murky situation in Iraq is hardly a novel one. His conviction that the Bush administration has been found lacking in strategic and administrative skills to combat the sensitive situation in Iraq,...
The global war on terror is rapidly failing. That's the message that has for long been circulating. A number of think-tanks in recent months have been publishing various research and reports on this matter and if anyone needs telling, all those reports...
Blackwater is in for more bad news. It is being criticized by the US lawmakers, who want to have all private security contractors answerable in a court of law. FBI and the pentagon are giving them a tough time and tightening the screws on them.
The...
An US government report says that the Iraqi government has fulfilled only 3 of the 18 benchmarks set for it. There is no oil bill, no resettlement of Baathists, nor any progress towards reconciliation.
It clearly lays down the reasons for...
US President George W. Bush said he was strongly opposed to partition of Iraq and renewed his support for embattled Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
That the American troops are not welcomed in Iraq any more is known to all and it is highly suspicious indeed when civilians are reported killed as an aftermath of fighting between insurgents and the US troops in the country. Many cry foul...
The first and inevitable causalities of war are the civilians and it's an international law nowadays to contain the number of innocent lives lost. But the situation in Iraq is more inclined towards lawlessness. And when the people invested with the...
They are trigger happy. They fire and kill and go away; no concern about the injured or to count how many died. One of them flew an US military helicopter without any flying experience in Afghanistan and crashed it, killing US soldiers on board....
It was inevitable that the US would turn its eye towards Africa and now that it has eventually been directed itself towards the Dark Continent, apprehension and skepticism have risen to the surface. Anywhere the US goes, misery follows or so goes the...
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