Eurasia Press & News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Retired U.S. Navy medic Charlie Anderson twice thought about committing suicide: once when he feared he would be sent back to Iraq in 2004 and again last year when a friend and fellow veteran killed himself. “I can’t say that I can’t go because we don’t do …

ROME, March 28 (Reuters) – Italian opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi may have scored an “own goal” by not supporting an Afghan peace mission in a Senate vote which, instead of showing how weak the government is, split the centre right in two. Berlusconi’s coalition, ousted by Romano Prodi’s alliance last …

GURBUZ, Afghanistan – Government officials in this town in Khost province refer to the cross-border operations simply as “Suicide, Inc”, a sophisticated joint venture between al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Young Arab, Pakistani and Afghan bombers strapped with increasingly potent bombs aim for softer and softer civilian targets, both Afghan and …

Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate conservatives and the Bush administration are taking aim at billions of dollars of non-war spending added to President Bush’s $100 billion funding request for Afghanistan and Iraq. In addition to money and equipment for overseas troops, there is $100 million for state and …

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has agreed to meet every two weeks for a peace talk with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to focus on the day-to-day movement and access of Palestinians in and out of Gaza, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced Tuesday.

As many as 10 Palestinians were killed on Tuesday when the wall of a large cesspool in northern Gaza collapsed, flooding the village of Umm Nasser with raw sewage.

Even John Bolton, the neocon’s neocon and former United States ambassador to the UN, now admits it. Mistakes were made in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq. Not regime change – he is unrepentant about that – but what happened next.

WASHINGTON – A Pentagon watchdog has found fault with four generals and five other officers for mistakes following the death of United States Army Ranger and former professional football star Pat Tillman in Afghanistan.

TEHRAN – When two British boats with 15 Royal Navy personnel were seized by Iran last week, all eyes turned to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. The corps’ naval force carried out the operation, which Britain says happened in Iraqi territorial waters, and its commanders hold the key to the …

Commander of the disciplinary force in the Iranian eastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan elaborated on the freedom and release of the Iranian nationals taken hostage by the terrorist bandits.