AP - The Defense Department's longest-serving general counsel, who has been criticized for his role in crafting Bush administration policies for detaining and trying suspected terrorists, is resigning to return to private life next month, the Pentagon said Monday.
AFP - The United States Monday pressed for a prompt UN Security Council vote on a new set of sanctions against Iran over its disputed nuclear program, which Tehran warned would harm the credibility of the UN nuclear watchdog.
AP - The war in Iraq is returning to the airwaves.
Reuters - Republican presidential front-runner
John McCain on Monday retracted his earlier statement he would
lose the November election if he did not convince Americans
they were winning the war in Iraq.
McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON? As the Iraqi government watched in anguish Monday, Turkey's ambassador to the United States set an ambitious goal for his country's incursion into the northern Kurdistan region of Iraq: "to eliminate" a Kurdish rebel force of at least 4,000 fighters.
AP - John McCain said Monday that to win the White House he must convince a war-weary country that U.S. policy in Iraq is succeeding. If he can't, "then I lose. I lose," the Republican said.
AP - Iran must pay more than $33 million to the family of a U.S.-born Israeli diplomat killed in a 1992 terrorist attack, a federal judge said Monday.
AP - Iran's ambassador to the United Nations said Monday that an Iranian opposition group is feeding fabricated evidence to Washington that purports to show the Tehran government tried to produce nuclear weapons.
Reuters - Western powers on Monday pushed for
new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program as Tehran
voiced defiance about any new punitive measures, saying high
oil prices would cushion the blow.
AP - The United States predicted a swift vote on new United Nations sanctions against Iran following a strategy session Monday, as Iran again denied ever trying to build nuclear weapons.