Suspected Taliban fighters hijacked trucks carrying Humvees and other supplies for U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan, authorities said Tuesday after a brazen attack near the Khyber Pass that underscored the militants' grip across key mountain strongholds. ...more

November 12, 2008

Today's celebration of Independence Day includes a sobering, patriotic coincidence. In June, 56 U.S. troops died fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. That's exactly how many signatures are on the Declaration of Independence, a document our enemies would burn if they had the chance. ...more

July 4, 2008

Caught off guard by recent Iraqi military operations, the United States is using spy satellites that ordinarily are trained on adversaries to monitor the movements of the U.S.-backed Iraqi army, according to current and former U.S. officials. ...more

July 2, 2008

An official Iraqi investigation into a deadly shooting involving Blackwater USA security guards raised the number of Iraqis killed to 17 and found the gunfire was unwarranted, the government said Sunday. ...more

October 8, 2007

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday ordered all diplomatic convoys in Baghdad to travel under the supervision of U.S. government security officials, a drastic overhaul of operations after allegations that the department's private guards, Blackwater USA, have engaged in unnecessary violence in the Iraqi capital. ...more

October 5, 2007

Spurred by the Internet and a nationwide urban radio program by a popular disc jockey, tens of thousands of people are expected to descend on a sleepy rural Louisiana town to protest what they say are excessive criminal charges against six black teenagers involved in a schoolyard brawl. ...more

September 20, 2007

In early 1942, the United States had just entered World War II, and I was in the Canadian Navy, serving on the HMCS Fennel, a patrol and escort vessel known as a corvette. ...more

September 11, 2007