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The first headquarters of the nation's secret effort to build the bomb lay in New York City.
A measure affecting State Department convoys aims to bring armed contractors under tighter supervision.
Officials said that State Department investigators lacked the authority to offer the deals.
Officials said that State Department investigators lacked the authority to offer the deals.
In a remote corner of northern Iraq, Kurdish militants fighting Turkey thrive, protected by mountains and a complex web of relationships.
Four years after his pointless invasion of Iraq, President Bush still confuses bullying with grand strategy.
Efforts to recruit Sunni policemen have been met with halfhearted support and outright resistance from the Shiite-dominated national government.
We have done virtually everything we can with respect to carrots, if you will. It's time for squash. Not to mention mushrooms, clouds of them.
The real issue for academic anthropologists is how our profession is going to begin to play a more significant educational role in the formulation of foreign policy.
A ruling this week by a U.S. Army panel could lead to the overturning of one of the largest courts-martial of World War II.
Iraq cannot be reconstructed as a unitary state, and the sooner we face up to this reality, the better.
Despite a pretense of fiscal prudence, President Bush keeps throwing money at his war, regardless of the cost in blood, treasure or children's health care.
The secretive world of the Blackwater compound in Baghdad is fraying under scrutiny from the F.B.I., the American military and the Iraqi government.
I continue to believe that everyone has us where they want us in Iraq: we're holding up the floor for Iraqi politicians to do their endless tribal dance.
While the amount of money the State Department pays to private contractors has soared, the department conceded that it has added few new officials to oversee contracts.
The West's stomach for investing blood and treasure in Afghanistan for another decade is unclear. But I see no alternative.
The reports have delivered sharply critical judgments about the department's performance in overseeing private security contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.
President Bush's request increased the amount of the proposed spending by $46 billion over the amount already requested this year.
In a grim marker of the war's longevity, children too young to remember losing a parent in Iraq are growing up.
Charles D. Riechers, not the first suicide connected to the Iraq war's corruption scandals, is a window into the culture of the whole debacle.
The president says that America is engaged in a struggle between good and evil but is he addressing all citizens when his policies touch so few of us?
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is pressing for the security firms in Iraq to fall under a single authority.
Big cash bonuses are another desperate reminder of how little planning was done for the Iraq war, and how much damage it has done to America's forces.
A United States administration casting around for soldiering scraps in Moldova should be careful about saber-rattling toward Iran.
Our humanity has been compromised by those who use Gestapo tactics in the Iraq war. The longer we stand idly by, the more we resemble the "good Germans."
Code of Honor
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