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The release Friday of five Iranians held by the U.S. military in Iraq for two and a half years highlights the long-simmering…
Gareth Porter
Gareth Porter is an independent investigative journalist and winner of the 2012 Gellhorn Prize for journalism. He is the author of the newly published Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare.
WASHINGTON, Jun 12 (IPS) – The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s refusal to share with other agencies even the most basic data on…
WASHINGTON, Mar 5 (IPS) – The arguments for maintaining a major U.S. combat force in Iraq at least through 2011, escalating U.S.…
WASHINGTON, Feb 20 (IPS) – President Barack Obama decided to approve only 17,000 of the 30,000 troops requested by Gen. David McKiernan,…
WASHINGTON, Feb 17 (IPS) – CENTCOM Commander General David Petraeus and Multinational Force Iraq (MNF-I) Commander General Ray Odierno have submitted assessments…
Washington – The political maneuvering between President Barack Obama and his top field commanders over withdrawal from Iraq has taken a sudden…
WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (IPS) – CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus, supported by Defence Secretary Robert Gates, tried to convince President Barack Obama…
WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (IPS) – Until mid-2007, there was a serious political obstacle to a massive conventional war by Israel against Hamas…
After Barack Obama’s electoral victory in November, one of the major questions was whether he would hold to his pledge during the…
WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (IPS) – The promotion of Robert M. Gates as President-elect Barack Obama’s secretary of defence appears to be the…