Nation Forum on Middle East “Unintended Consequences: A Forum on Iraq and the Mideast,” in The Nation is now available online. Journalists Helena Cobban and […]

Attacks in Baqubah, Mansur Train, Pipeline bombed Reuters reports on deaths in the guerrilla war on Thursday: In Baqubah and Khan Bani Saad northeast of […]

Turks threaten to Invade Iraq Just a reminder how much of a tinderbox Iraq is, and how easily neighboring countries could be drawn into a […]

War on Terror Over The Bush administration is giving up the phrase “global war on terror.” I take it this is because they have finally […]

The Consequences of Nuking Iran Readers have asked me about this discussion at Daily Kos. It notes that former CIA analyst Philip Giraldi wrote in […]

On How US Troops Aren’t Coming Home Any Time Soon al-Hayat reports that 16 Iraqis were killed in guerrilla violence in Baghdad and its environs […]

Draft Constitution Enshrines Islamic Law At Least 27 Dead in Guerrilla Violence Humam al-Hamoudi, the head of the constitution drafting committee in the Iraqi parliament, […]

Sunni Arabs Rejoin Constitution Committee The Sunni Arab members of the constitution drafting committee ended their boycott on Monday, and say they will attend Tuesday’s […]

Former British PM John Major Ties Iraq to Bomb Attacks Former British PM John Major said Monday to the BBC, ‘ “I think what has […]