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Vice President Dick Cheney told newly minted Coast Guard officers Wednesday that the "war on terror" would be won on their watch and dismissed fears that fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan would drag on indefinitely. Cheney, sporting a cowboy hat, said the troop surge in Iraq "has succeeded...
The United States is failing to live up to its own commitments to protect children caught up in war, human rights groups said Wednesday. The American Civil Liberties Union said U.S. military recruiters target children as young as 11, violating the terms of a global treaty on child rights that...
The White House is calling on NBC News to declare whether the network still believes Iraq is mired in a "civil war," escalating a fight that began when NBC aired an interview with President Bush that the White House called the product of "deceitful editing."
Army Gen. David Petraeus, who is to assume control of U.S. forces in the Middle East, says that a continued U.S. presence in Iraq is more likely to blunt, rather than inflame, Iran's growing influence in the region. In a 46-page question-and-answer document submitted in advance of his...
Sgt. Corey Glass, 25, says he fled to Canada to avoid fighting "illegal" war in Iraq National Guardsman is facing a June 12 deportation order Canada's refugee agency rules that Glass won't face persecution if he returns Canada's high court has rejected all five cases that it has heard from...
The number of daily attacks in Mosul has dropped at least 85 percent since U.S.-Iraqi forces began an offensive against Sunni insurgents in the city earlier this month, the top U.S. commander in northern Iraq said Wednesday. Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling said U.S. and Iraqi forces have not met fierce...
By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A study released on Wednesday reports a decline in fatal attacks of terrorism worldwide and says U.S. think-tank data showing sharp increases were distorted due to the inclusion of killings in Iraq. "Even if the Iraq 'terrorism' data are included,...
The al-Qaida fighters in Iraq have yet to be vanquished but are increasingly running out of places where local Iraqis will accommodate the group's extremist ideology, the Army general who oversees U.S. commando operations in the Middle East said Wednesday.
LONDON, May 21 (UPI) -- The latest messages from Osama bin Baden focused on a struggle against Israel, prompting analysts to wonder why he shifted from topics such as Iraq. In the statement posted Friday on the on the Internet, a voice identified as bin Laden's said the "main root of conflict" is...
THE CANADIAN PRESS Ottawa has decided that an American soldier who fled the army over the Iraq war will not face the risk of abuse or mistreatment if returned to the U.S. That means Corey Glass can now be deported to the United States, where he faces possible jail time for desertion. Glass, of...
