The Nuclear Option, Algeria and David Hume’s Perfect Commonwealth What has the Algerian Civil War of the 1990s got to do with the dictatorial way […]

11 Killed, 40 Wounded in Saturday Bomb Marathon Guerrillas detonated at least 5 bombs in Baghdad on Saturday, killing 11 and wounding 40 persons. It […]

50 Killed, 114 Wounded in Coordinated Series of 17 Bombings 3 Americans Killed, 7 wounded The guerrilla movement pulled off a spectacular set of bombings […]

Parliament Approves Cabinet Interior Ministry goes to Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq Al-Jazirah is reporting, early Friday morning, several car bombs in the […]

US Soldier, 4 Policemen Killed in Afghanistan by Neo-Taliban Resurgent Taliban forces attacked Afghan police and a US patrol on Wednesday, leaving one American soldier […]

Racism in Israel The increasing racial tension inside Israel is a worrisome development. But what really struck me is the Israeli government projection that in […]

Iraqi Cabinet More details of the new Iraqi cabinet are now out. The big and rather ominous surprise is that Ahmad Chalabi is the temporary […]

New Cabinet Al-Hayat says that Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani had pressed for 10 of the cabinet posts in the new government of Ibrahim Jaafari to […]

Iraq News Round-Up Guerrillas assassinated an Iraqi female member of parliament Wednesday, women’s rights activist Lamia Abid Khadduri Sakri. Al-Zaman says she was a member […]