It is being seen that if there does not end up any reconciliation in Iraq and formation of a stable government does not happen, then there would be repercussions of this situations not just in that state but also all over the Middle East. Iraq not becoming stable would boost sectarian violence in almost all states of Middle East. The present situation in Iraq should not be debated over whether the war is correct or wrong, the situation should be looked at ... Read More

{mosimage}There was hope of the capital city of Iraq, Baghdad, there were several reports regarding improvement of situation in the city. The police were also thinking of removing roadblocks from certain parts of Baghdad to allow smooth movement from one place to another for people. However, this has changed suddenly when there has been another incident of car bomb explosion in the city. There are reports that there was one car bomb that exploded in the Shia dominated part of the market killing ... Read More

On September 18, 2001, exactly one week after the fall of the World Trade Center, the United States of America came to the grips of another scare, this time from an entity so small it can never be seen without the aid of a microscope. It came in the form of a deadly bacteria strain known as anthrax. What is anthrax? As stated above, anthrax is a strain of bacteria commonly found in ruminant animals. It is not contagious and ... Read More

Students of American history will know just how significant the first USS Maine was in establishing the United States of America as a considerable world power at a time when imperialism was the mode of all powerful nations. A young nation, a century past from freeing itself from its colonial British ties, must have needed an opportunity to assert itself in global politics, and the USS Maine provided the perfect opportunity. Her explosion that is. The annals of history has forever ... Read More

On every November of each year, a group of people flock to the entrance of Fort Benning, a United States Army facility in Columbus, Georgia, to hold a mock funeral procession. During this funeral procession, the group would chant the Presente litany.   After the funeral procession, the group would continue honoring the dead with music and song, with poetry, with puppet shows and theatrical presentations, and with educational workshops. What started out in 1989 as a procession held by only ten ... Read More

It is probably one of the most horrendous and heart-wrenching scene ever to be caught on video. No matter how desensitized we may have become because of news on the on-going struggles in Iraq and other events considered to be aftermaths of this scene, watching it unfold once more before our very eyes will never fail to elicit a tear drop from at least some of us. Who could ever forget the fall of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers on September ... Read More

The Internet and the media are rife with conspiracy theories on what really happened during the September 11 terrorist attacks. Among the more popular bodies of evidence being bandied about by the conspiracy theorists pointing to a possible cover-up or engineering by the US government has something to do with the amount of damage sustained by the Pentagon during the 9/11 attacks. We will all remember that one of the four planes hijacked by the 19 terrorists supposedly deployed by ... Read More

Suicide bombings and bombings against the coalition troops continued in Iraq, there were news of bombings in different places in the country. A female suicide bomber entered a crowd of 200 police recruits and detonated a bomb. The bomb killed 14 persons and injured several others. This happened in the Muqtadiyah city which is some 60 miles to the northeast of Baghdad. There were also attacks on the coalition soldiers. There were reports of three soldiers killed when a roadside bomb detonated in ... Read More

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea appeared increasingly unlikely to meet a weekend deadline to shut down its nuclear reactor, staying silent Thursday about whether it was satisfied with a U.S. solution to a financial dispute that has stalled the disarmament process. The U.S., South Korea and China said the North has not withdrawn some $25 million that was unfrozen this week in a bank in the Chinese territory of Macau. Washington had blacklisted the Banco Delta Asia in September 2005 for allegedly ... Read More

Gates announces longer tours in Iraq WASHINGTON - Beginning immediately, all active-duty Army soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan will serve 15-month tours — three months longer than the usual standard, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday. It was the latest move by the Pentagon to cope with the strains of fighting two wars simultaneously and maintaining a higher troop level in Iraq as part of President Bush's revised strategy for stabilizing Baghdad. "This policy is a difficult but necessary interim step," Gates ... Read More