U.S. soldiers make themselves plates of food during a ceremony marking Veterans Day at the U.S. Camp Phoenix in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)Iraq PM says 73 arrests in Oct 25 attacks probe
Iraq has arrested 73 people suspected of playing a direct role in two massive bombs that killed more than 150 people in Baghdad on October 25, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Tuesday. They are suspected of working on the orders of the outlawed Baath party of executed dictator Saddam Hussein, and included members of Al-Qaeda, Maliki told reporters in Baghdad.
Iraqi court rules Guardian defamed Nouri al-Maliki
An Iraqi court has ordered the Guardian to pay Nouri al-Maliki damages of 100m dinar (£52,000) after supporting a complaint by the Iraqi prime minister's intelligence service that he had been defamed by a Guardian story in April describing him as increasingly autocratic.
Iraq's PM warns of threat in run-up to January elections, vows to maintain security
Iraq's prime minister warns that insurgents may try to undermine the country's fledgling democracy in the run-up to January's national elections. Nouri al-Maliki told tribal leaders from Baghdad's Shiite Sadr City district on Wednesday that maintaining security was his top priority, but said insurgent groups do not want the vote to be held in a secure climate.
3 Top Obama Advisers Favor Adding Troops in Afghanistan
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton are coalescing around a proposal to send 30,000 or more additional American troops to Afghanistan, but President Obama remains unsatisfied with answers he has gotten about how vigorously the governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan would help execute a new strategy, administration officials said Tuesday.
Taliban jail unearthed as troops kill nine in South Waziristan
Security forces have killed nine more Taliban in South Waziristan, the military said on Tuesday, as troops destroyed a number of caves, towers and observation posts and unearthed a private Taliban jail.
Would Taliban fighters switch sides?
The news from Afghanistan looks unremittingly bleak for the West these days. Casualties among foreign and Afghan troops are again rising, with the rancour over the fraud-marred presidential elections still in the air.
‘Nobody in Pak govt aware of Qaeda leaders’ whereabouts’
The US finds it hard to believe that nobody knows where the Al Qaeda leadership is, but there is no evidence to suggest that anybody at the top levels of the Pakistani government knows, said US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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