By Faris Ali | Reuters | Nov. 13, 2008
Gunmen abducted an Iranian diplomat in Peshawar on Thursday, a day after a U.S. aid worker was shot dead in the city on the front line of an Islamist insurgency sweeping northwest Pakistan and parts of Afghanistan. Suspicion for the kidnapping will inevitably fall on the Taliban and affiliated Sunni Muslim militant groups such as al Qaeda, who hate Shi'ite Muslims and predominantly Shi'ite Iran almost as much as they hate the West.

By Margaret Griffis | AntiWar.com | Nov. 12, 2008
Ten Iraqi militant groups have vowed to protest a proposed U.S.-Iraq security agreement by escalating violence against security forces. They have seemingly kept their promise in Baghdad where several significant bombings occurred today. Overall, at least 31 Iraqis were killed and another 109 were wounded in attacks across the country. In Zanjili, four U.S. soldiers were killed and three others were wounded during an incident involving an Iraqi soldier. Also, the United Nations reported that one million Iraqi still lack adequate food.

By Warren Strobel | McClatcly Newspapers | Nov. 12, 2008
The State Department is preparing to slap a multi-million dollar fine on private military contractor Blackwater USA for shipping hundreds of automatic weapons to Iraq without the necessary permits. Some of the weapons are believed to have ended up on the country's black market, department officials told McClatchy, but no criminal charges have been filed in the case.

By Margaret Griffis | AntiWar.com | Nov. 10, 2008
A complex bomb attack in Baghdad left scores dead or injured in the capital and almost overshadowed violence elsewhere. At least 45 Iraqis were killed and 101 more were wounded across the country. Another vicious attack occurred in Baquba where a 13-year-old girl undertook a suicide bombing against a group of formerly U.S.-backed security personnel. No Coalition deaths were reported.

By | IHT | Nov. 10, 2008
The U.S. military since 2004 has used broad secret authority to carry out nearly a dozen previously undisclosed attacks against Al Qaeda and other militants in Syria, Pakistan and elsewhere, according to senior U.S. officials.

AP | Nov. 8, 2008
A psychologist testifying in the first-degree murder trial of an Iraq war veteran said the man suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. Ricardo Cortez, 25, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in the death of his 21-year-old estranged, pregnant wife, Nikki Fix-Cortez. Prosecutors accuse Cortez of killing her Sept. 16, 2007, with a shotgun because she was leaving him.

By Abdul Waheed Wafa and Mark McDonald | IHT | Nov. 5, 2008
An airstrike by U.S.-led forces caused a large number of civilian casualties after it hit a wedding party in Kandahar Province in southern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said Wednesday. The casualties included many women and children, the officials said.

Reuters | Nov. 5, 2008
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Wednesday an air strike by coalition forces earlier this week killed some 40 civilians and wounded about 28 in Kandahar province.

By Margaret Griffis | AntiWar.com | Nov. 4, 2008
A spate of bombings greeted Baghdadis today as U.S. soldiers there await results in the U.S. presidential election. Overall, at least 36 Iraqis were killed and another 69 were wounded across the country, but the lion's share of injuries was reported in the capital. No Coalition deaths were reported, but many soldiers celebrated election day by becoming U.S. citizens. Also, a Sunni politician suggested letting the public vote on a controversial U.S.-Iraqi security pact.

BBC | Nov. 5, 2008
Russia is to deploy new missiles in a Baltic enclave near Nato member Poland, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says. Short-range Iskander missiles in the Kaliningrad region would "neutralise" the planned US anti-missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, he said.

By Paul Joseph Watson & Yihan Dai | Prisonplanet.com | Oct. 30, 2008
According to reports out of top Chinese mainstream news outlets, the RAND Corporation recently presented a shocking proposal to the Pentagon in which it lobbied for a war to be started with a major foreign power in an attempt to stimulate the American economy and prevent a recession.

By Tim Whewell | BBC | Oct. 28, 2008
The BBC has discovered evidence that Georgia may have committed war crimes in its attack on its breakaway region of South Ossetia in August. Eyewitnesses have described how its tanks fired directly into an apartment block, and how civilians were shot at as they tried to escape the fighting.

Press TV | Oct. 28, 2008
Iran's Navy Commander says the new naval base in the strategic port of Jask will be used to block the Strait of Hormuz in case of war. In a Tuesday interview, Chief Navy Commander Habibollah Sayyari said the presence of foreign forces near Iranian waters prompted the army to expand its strategic positions in the Sea of Oman.

By Jason Ditz | AntiWar.com | Oct. 27, 2008
In a report from local witnesses later confirmed by a Syrian government spokesman, Two US helicopters landed in the Syrian border town of Al-Sukkariya while others remained in the air and eight American soldiers exited. The soldiers killed at least eight people in the attack, and wounded 14 others before reboarding the helicopters and returning to Iraqi territory.

By Steve Watson | Infowars.net | Oct. 23, 2008
The Pentagon has put out a request to contractors to develop teams of robots that can search for, detect and track "non-cooperative" humans in "pursuit/evasion scenarios".