Analysis / Perceptions count as much as bombs in war with Syria
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Hamas activist Mesbah Abu Hweileh, 35, survived a bombing yesterday that destroyed his car on a Damascus street just after he and his family stepped out of the car.
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Roadside bombs in Iraq escalated to record levels this summer -- to  about four times the number of January 2004 -- as tips from Iraqi citizens warning of the bombs and other attacks have dropped sharply amid a flaring of sectarian violence, according to a senior U.S. defense official.
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An ultra-radical Islamic ideology mixing zealot-like devotion and holy war creed is drawing more scrutiny in anti-terrorist probes from the Middle East to Europe - with increasing indications that its base on ...
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The raid on the American embassy in Damascus signals a greater threat to the Syrian regime than to the U.S.
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A spate of plays are examining both the political and human costs of the war in Iraq
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Syria on Wednesday opposed deployment of an international force along its border to prevent arms shipments to Hezbollah, and Israel called the situation in Lebanon "explosive." A cease-fire was further shaken by artillery shells and explosions that killed three Lebanese soldiers and an Israeli.
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Parties opposed to the war in Iraq have seized on a new study that claims at least 100,000 civilians have died as a result of the action and its aftermath.
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Information minister says bombing of car belonging to Hamas member in Damascus shows Israel rejects peace. DAMASCUS- Syrian Information Minister Mehdi Dakhlallah on Tuesday said the bombing of a car belonging
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The Middle East is in flames. Over the past week, war erupted among the Palestinians and their government collapsed. A Shiite shrine in Iraq was bombed -- again -- as the new U.S. military strategy showed no sign of diminishing violence. Lebanon battled a new al-Qaeda faction in the north as a...
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Independent experts have satellite  imagery of what they believe to be a Syrian nuclear site  targeted in an Israeli air strike last month, The Washington  Post reported on Wednesday.
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JERUSALEM - Israel holds Syria responsible for a double suicide bombing that killed 16 people because it allows the group that staged the attack to operate there, a senior Israeli official said Wednesday in a warning that implied possible retaliation.    The militant Islamic group Hamas claimed the attack Tuesday in the desert city of Beersheba, when two bombers from the West Bank city of Hebron blew themselves up seconds apart in two buses...
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Secretary of Defense tempers comments with concern about continued attacks and need to build up Iraqi forces. Deadly attacks: Suicide bombers detonated two car bombs within 15 minutes of each other in Baghdad
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A pair of new reports have delivered scorching judgments about how the State Department oversees work done by private contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Mystery still shrouds Syria's complaint that Israel bombed its territory but the incident has set nerves jangling across the Middle East, with commentators urging both sides on Friday against an escalation into war.
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No doubt some will say the Jakarta bomb is a vicious retort to Howard&#39;s Iraq policy. It requires a medieval mindset to conceive of the sort of savagery the world witnessed in Beslan.
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Today, the Lancet medical journal published a report which concludes that 100,000 civilians died in the US-led invasion of Iraq. This is an incredibly high estimate, and at first may seem too farfetched not to be propaganda. But it cannot easily be dismissed. The report's authors are researchers from Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, and Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad. The Lancet is a highly-respected, peer-reviewed publication. The report appears to be a serious academic attempt to study the public health consequences of the invasion.  Also, The New Republic magazine has conducted an interview with Prof. Gilbert Burnham, the report's main author.   Excerpts and comments below.
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U.S. military intelligence officials  believe Iraqi insurgents are getting much greater help from  sources in Syria than previously realized, The Washington Post  reported on Wednesday.