War on Iraq

WASHINGTON — A nearly completed high-level U.S. intelligence analysis warns that unresolved ethnic and sectarian tensions in Iraq could unleash a new wave of violence, potentially reversing the major security and political gains achieved over the last year.  

The nation’s most prestigious group for Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans released a congressional scorecard Tuesday that ranks Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain of Arizona as having one of the worst voting records to support troops and veterans.  

Federal regulators are looking into allegations that a number of military analysts failed to disclose their ties to the Pentagon when they appeared on television to discuss the Iraq war, according to U.S. News & World Report. "In its letter signed by the chief of the investigations and hearings...  

The floor-to-ceiling windows of Raquel Henry’s Lone Star College-Kingwood office are filled with names typed on pieces of paper. The names - about 4,000 of them - are of all the men and women who gave their lives in Iraq. Now, every time she has to go back and make the font smaller because she’s...  

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear the appeal of an Iraq war veteran's prison sentence, a five-year term handed down in Mobile by a federal judge who later said he made a mistake. The case now will return...  

Tuesday night, Iraq War veteran Kristofer Goldsmith tried to describe what a dead human body smells like to a wide-eyed audience of more than 50 students, professors and community members.  

BATON ROUGE -- Democrat Mary Landrieu and Republican John Kennedy tussled over taxes, energy policy, the war in Iraq and the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama as they met Monday for their first debate in a U.S. Senate campaign that thus far has been fought mostly on the airwaves and the...  

As of Monday, Oct. 6, 2008, at least 4,178 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians killed in action. At least 3,383 military personnel died as a result of hostile...  

James Nesbitt is to star in a major BBC drama about the war in Iraq, the broadcaster has announced.  

Like no war before it, Iraq has spawned a rich body of literature while still being waged. The resulting books vary greatly in quality and intent, from journalistic accounts of combat (Evan Wright’s “Generation Kill”) to justifications by failed U.S. administrators (Paul Bremer’s “My Year in...  

The war in Iraq has, of course, affected a multitude of people in a multitude of ways and an effort is currently underway, involving one of Dexter's own, geared toward improving the lives of some of Iraq's innocent victims.  

(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Many adults in the United States appear disappointed with the way their government approached two different military operations, according to a poll by CBS News and the New York Times. 54 per cent of respondents think the Bush administration focused too much on the...  

The Forever War is a splendid volume of short nonfiction pieces about two dozen incidents of war in Iraq and Afghanistan between 1998 and 2006. Dexter Filkins previously covered several of these events in news articles for the New York Times, where he is a correspondent.  

A disabled Iraq War veteran will share his trials, triumphs and views when the documentary "Body of War" comes to Baraboo for a single showing tonight at the Al. Ringing Theatre.The film is the story of Tomas Young, who signed up for military service a few days after the terrorist attacks of Sept...  

As of Friday, Oct. 3, 2008, at least 4,177 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.