BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi parliament on Sunday failed to resolve an impasse threatening to delay the country's election in January, which could affect the U.S. military's plans for a partial pullout next year.

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"According to a soldiers' advocacy group at Fort Hood, the U.S. base where an army psychiatrist has been charged with killing 13 people and wounding 30 in a Nov. 5 rampage, the official suicide figures provided by the Army are "definitely" too low.

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How do we know that the attack at Fort Hood was an act of Islamist terrorism? Simple, Major Nidal Hassan told us so. You've seen reports of a long list of things he did and said along these lines. But what's most amazing of all is this:

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I can't remember how many times I have said that the U.S. military adventure in Afghanistan is a fool's errand.

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A senior U.S. senator on Sunday said the shootings at Fort Hood could have been a terrorist attack, and that he would launch a congressional investigation into whether the U.S. military could have prevented it.

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10/9/2009 - WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- It was a tough act for Hollywood at the annual USO Gala here last night.

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"War is now the American way, even if peace is what most Americans experience while their proxies fight in distant lands," according to this opinion piece. While I think the article is a bit one-sided, I agree with much of it and feel it makes some excellent points.

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Pakistanis are watching it happen in the streets of Islamabad. The recurring nightmare has become a grim reality here that after watching last 8 years the horrors of the U.S.

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On Sept. 3, this newspaper published a very revealing front-page article from Iraq about a bizarre bank-robbery that summed up the challenge of where we are in Baghdad and Kabul and how to think about what it will take to succeed in both places.

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US Military Denies Involvement

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It's not a typo, the main ingredient in the GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis vaccines contain a LIVE VIRUS, an attenuated virus meaning it's a weakened form of the swine flu virus. ..

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Eight years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq. About 4,000 members of the U.S. military killed in action. More than 34,000 wounded. Just six considered worthy of America's highest military award for battlefield valor.

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Earlier today, congressional Democrats held their second hearing on the national security aspects of climate change in little over a week.

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Senior U.S. military and diplomatic officials believe that more than three weeks after his capture by Afghan Taliban forces, Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl still remains in Afghanistan -- but acknowledge that he could have crossed the border into Pakistan.

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excerpt: ""On June 30th, the first phase of America's withdrawal from Iraq began as U.S.

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Afghans in contact with the Taliban told the AP that the soldier was held by a Taliban group led by a commander called Maulvi Sangin. They said the fighters decided to move him north into Taliban-controlled areas of Ghazni province.

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon on Sunday confirmed that an American soldier who went missing from his base in Afghanistan has been captured and identified him as a private from Idaho serving with an Alaska-based infantry regiment.

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LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. and allied troops have pushed back Taliban insurgents in a major offensive in Afghanistan but there is still a long way to go, President Barack Obama said on Saturday.

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The Southern Poverty Law Center today urged Congress to investigate growing evidence that racial extremists are infiltrating the U.S. military in order to ensure that the armed forces are not inadvertently training future domestic terrorists.

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Ongoing Civilian casualties have become an important consideration when looking at and considering the use and legitimacy of drones in South Asia. In a belated admission last month the U.S.

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Hours after U.S. troops withdrew from the city of Kirkut, a car boom killed 32, and injured 100 citizens. The terrorism will continue as factions fight for teritorial controll of Iraqi cities. It will be 2012 before the U.S. completely withdraws from Iraq.

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excerpt: ''"" As I wrote back in May, the antics of disgraced former Navy chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt, and his retaliation against the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) and Americans United for Separation of Church and State, after the two organizations issued  …

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The American people must support this proposed legislation by contacting their representatives immediately and request that this legislation force those in public office to include the word "retroactive" so that every U.S.

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It's a sad day in America when the shooting of an abortion doctor stops the presses but no one notices two soldiers gunned down by an Islamist.

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The Americans do not want Pakistanis to capture Baitullah Mehsud alive, and they cannot eliminate him with an air strike anymore since Pakistan Army is advancing towards him already.

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