By Richard Lardner | The Huffington Post | Jun. 23, 2008
The Army's march to overhaul its tarnished contracting system has been slowed by an unlikely foe: the White House. The Office of Management and Budget, President Bush's administrative arm, has shot down a service plan to add five active-duty generals who would oversee purchasing and monitor contractor performance.

By Ray McGovern | Anti-war.com | Jun. 23, 2008
Unlike the attack on Iraq five years ago, to deal with Iran there need be no massing of troops. And, with the propaganda buildup already well under way, there need be little, if any, forewarning before shock and awe and pox – in the form of air and missile attacks – begin.

By Chris Wilson | Slate | Jun. 18, 2008
The notorious A.Q. Khan smuggling ring had its hands on the design for a sophisticated and compact nuclear weapon, according to a new report from a former U.N. arms inspector. In 2006, electronic blueprints for the device were discovered on hard drives in several countries. What does a nuclear weapon blueprint look like?

By Margaret Griffis | AntiWar.com | Jun. 17, 2008
At least 75 Iraqis were killed and 120 more were wounded in a spate of bombings and other attacks. The heaviest toll occurred at a Baghdad bus stop around dinnertime. No Coalition deaths were reported today. Meanwhile, Turkey claimed to have stopped a force of PKK rebels from entering the country via northern Iraq.

ABC News | Jun. 17, 2008
Mentally distressed veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are being recruited for government tests on pharmaceutical drugs linked to suicide and other violent side effects, an investigation by ABC News and "The Washington Times" has found.

By Anne Casselman | Discover.com | Jun. 12, 2008
Four-and-a-half inch aircraft are providing a bird's-eye view of Iraq. Big, unmanned spy planes, like the Predators flying over Iraq, have plenty of problems. For starters, they are expensive to build and operate. More important, some can be relatively easy to spot. Shrinking such planes so that they weigh less than two ounces would result in the perfect vehicle to get a bird’s-eye view of the terrain.

AP | Jun. 13, 2008
Taliban militants attacked the main prison in southern Afghanistan late Friday, exploding a car bomb at the main gate in a multi-pronged assault that freed hundreds of militant prisoners, officials said.

Tom Coghlan | Sydney Morning Herald | Jun. 16, 2008
The Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, yesterday threatened to attack Taliban insurgents on Pakistani soil, saying his war-torn country had a right to do so out of "self-defence".

Jane Corbin | BBC | Jun. 10, 2008
A BBC investigation estimates that around $23bn (£11.75bn) may have been lost, stolen or just not properly accounted for in Iraq. For the first time, the extent to which some private contractors have profited from the conflict and rebuilding has been researched by the BBC's Panorama using US and Iraqi government sources.

By Gareth Porter | Asia Times | Jun. 10, 2008
Pentagon officials firmly opposed a proposal by Vice President Dick Cheney last summer for airstrikes against the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) bases by insisting that the administration would have to make clear decisions about how far the United States would go in escalating the conflict with Iran, according to a former George W Bush administration official.

By Mark Thompson | Time.com | June 6, 2005
Seven months after Sergeant Christopher LeJeune started scouting Baghdad's dangerous roads — acting as bait to lure insurgents into the open so his Army unit could kill them — he found himself growing increasingly despondent.

By Noah Shachtman | Wired.com | June 6, 2008
In February, a B-2 stealth bomber crashed in Guam. Now we know why. And we've got video of the scene.

By Patrick Cockburn | The Independent | Jun. 5, 2008
Bush wants 50 military bases, control of Iraqi airspace and legal immunity for all American soldiers and contractors. A secret deal being negotiated in Baghdad would perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely, regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election in November.

By James Risen | The Guardian | June 3, 2008
In an extract from his explosive new book, New York Times reporter James Risen reveals the bungles and miscalculations that led to a spectacular intelligence fiasco

By Duncan Campbell & Richard Norton-Taylor | The Guardian | June 1, 2008
The United States is operating "floating prisons" to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal the numbers and whereabouts of detainees.