Guerrillas Kill 33, Wound Dozens The guerrilla war in Iraq boiled along on Monday. In addition to the operations around Baquba reported yesterday morning, AP […]

Foreign Occupation has Produced Radical Muslim Terrorism Fareed Zakariya argues that Bush got one thing right. Zakariya writes: ” Bush never accepted the view that […]

12 Killed, 26 Wounded at Baquba Roundup: Looting, Kidnapping, and Shortage of Recruits The Iraqi parliament will meet March 16, whether or not it can […]

US Intervention in 1957 Lebanese Elections A reader writes by email concerning the question of whether the United States engineered the parliamentary elections of 1957 […]

Asad Pledges 2-Stage Withdrawal President Bashar al-Asad of Syria gave a major policy speech [Arabic link] to the Syrian parliament on Saturday on Lebanon. He […]

Kurdish-Shiite Negotiations Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani put pressure Saturday on the United Iraqi Alliance to maintain its unity and to speed up the formation of […]

Samarra Turmoil AFP reports that Iraqi police in Samarra announced a daytime curfew aimed at preventing the holding of mass demonstrations called for by the […]

Constitutional Issues Professor Nathan Brown has written an overview of constitutional issues (link is pdf). Andrew Arato writes by email: This is the more or […]

Public Support for Iraq War CollapsingMajority of Americans want to Bring Some Troops Home Zogby international found that in late February the percentage of Americans […]