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Ceasefire Setback |
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Written by Colum Lynch and Robin Wright
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Thursday, 10 August 2006 |
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Lebanon on Thursday raised objections to a U.S.- and French-backed draft resolution aimed at ending the fighting between Hezbollah and Israel because it does not call for an immediate cease-fire and because the proposed new international force would have a broad mandate to use military firepower. |
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Isreal asks US for Rockets |
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Written by David Cloud
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Thursday, 10 August 2006 |
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Isreal has asked the Bush administration to speed delivery of short-range antipersonnel rockets armed with cluster munitions, which it could use to strike Hezbollah missile sites in Lebanon, two American officials said Thursday.The request for M-26 artillery rockets, which are fired in barrages and carry hundreds of grenade-like bomblets that scatter and explode over a broad area, is likely to be approved shortly, along with other arms, a senior official said. |
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One deadly day |
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Written by AP
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Wednesday, 09 August 2006 |
Israel approved a massive new ground offensive into southern Lebanon in an effort Wednesday to inflict further damage on Hezbollah and halt most rocket attacks before the U.N. Security Council demands a cease-fire. The decision came on the deadliest day of the war for Israeli troops in Lebanon, with 15 soldiers killed. It coincided with mounting demands from the international community for both sides to halt the fighting, which has killed at least 829 people. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 10 August 2006 )
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Iraq for 12 more years? |
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Written by Knight Ridder Newspapers and AP
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Sunday, 26 June 2005 |
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday it could take as long as 12 years to defeat the insurgency in Iraq, but he said it will be up to Iraqi forces to do the job." That insurgency could go on for any number of years. Insurgencies tend to go on five, six, eight, 10, 12 years," Rumsfeld told "Fox News Sunday." |
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Civilian Deaths in Iraq |
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Written by Terrie Albano
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Wednesday, 03 November 2004 |
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Close to 100,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed as a result of the U.S. invasion, according to a groundbreaking report published online, Oct. 29, by a British medical journal, The Lancet. More than half of the deaths were women and children, according to the report, the first scientific study of the invasion’s effects on Iraqi civilians. |
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