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The past few weeks have seen the United States of America get into an unpleasant diplomatic tangle with its European allies over the issue of troops contribution in Afghanistan. Last week's NATO summit in Lithuania was overshadowed by a possible...
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is trying hard to save Bush from another degradation by repeatedly saying Guantanamo Bay prison camp has become so tainted abroad that legal proceedings on that controversial site would be viewed as illegitimate, and.
The war against terror has resulted in the detention by the United States of at least 385 prisoners, among them 14 senior leaders of al-Qaeda, including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who were transferred to it last year from secret prisons run by the...
As violence and anarchy continues to grow and ravage the turbulent Iraq, an additional crew of 2,200 US troops will set off to Iraq to suppress the growing hostility and implement President George Bush's controversial new Iraqi security plan for...
The US Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is currently visiting Iraq. Today, on the last day of his 3-day visit he met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, top American generals and a small group of enlisted soldiers.
After the meeting,..
Robert Gates, the newly appointed US defense secretary said that the demand to bring US troops back home is understandable. But at the same time he said that if the peace-establishing process in Iraq would fail, it will be a calamity that would...
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates himself said that the U.S. was not winning in Iraq, a few days back, a statement with which everyone agreed except the White House. And immediately the question arises: what will be the U.S. government's response to..
With the development of new political equations in US politics, President Bush may now announce a new way forward in Iraq possibly until the end of the year.
The reports of the Iraq Study Group and the studies of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and...
In an important administrative development in the United States, the Senate panel has given approval on the name of Robert Gates, 63 to be as the next defense secretary of the US.
President George Bush has selected him as the replacement of Donald.
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