Pilot killed as U.S. spy plane crashes
The Air Force pilot of a U-2 spy plane was killed early Wednesday when his aircraft crashed near its base in the United Arab Emirates, shortly after completing a routine...
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U.S. vows to supply more armor
The commander of U.S. ground forces in the Middle East promised Thursday to provide armored vehicles for every soldier in Iraq, even as congressional statistics revealed a stark shortage in...
Officer links intelligence agents to abuse orders
The U.S. officer who was in charge of interrogations at Abu Ghraib prison has told a senior Army investigator that intelligence officers sometimes instructed the military police to force Iraqi...
In the line of fire over abuses
When Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller arrived in Iraq last August with a team of military police and intelligence specialists, the group was confronted by chaos. In one prison yard, a...
Bush orders fast expansion of Iraq forces
The Bush administration has told the Pentagon to revamp and accelerate its plans for putting Iraqi security forces on the streets of Baghdad and other areas where U.S. forces have...
U.S. eyes interim leaders for Iraq
The Bush administration said Thursday that it would begin a "rolling dialogue" next week to recruit civilian leaders to help run Iraq as tensions persisted between the State and Defense...
Pentagon’s foreign media plan includes false reports
The Pentagon is developing plans to provide news items, possibly even false ones, to foreign media organizations as part of a new effort to influence public sentiment and policymakers in...
CONGRESS IS READY FOR LAST GASP AND CHANCE TO INFLUENCE ELECTIONS
Aware that what they do in the next few weeks might help determine who controls the federal government next year, members of Congress return from recess this week for a...
UN ENVOYS JAWBONE ON CAPITOL `TOURIST’ JAUNT
It was in many ways the strangest of outings. Fourteen foreign envoys and Richard Holbrooke, the ubiquitous U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, visited Washington Thursday as individual sightseers--just 14...