Reuters - The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
will cost the United States less than the $170 billion estimate
given earlier this year by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the
Pentagon's budget chief said on Tuesday.
Reuters - The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will cost the United States less than the $170 billion estimate given earlier this year by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the Pentagon's budget chief said on Tuesday.
AP - As of Tuesday, April 22, 2008, at least 4,044 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,299 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
AP - The United States and Iran, the two nations with the most at stake in Iraq, pointedly ignored each other Tuesday as Iraq's premier unsuccessfully pleaded for immediate financial and diplomatic backing from rich Arab neighbors still leery of Tehran's influence on Baghdad.
AP - A cousin and top deputy of Saddam Hussein, whose execution has been delayed for months, was returned to a U.S. detention facility on Tuesday after being hospitalized for a heart attack, U.S. officials said.
McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD? Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki criticized neighboring countries Tuesday as not doing enough to help Iraq root out militancy and pledged to continue his campaign against rogue Shiite Muslim militias.
AP - A senior Senate Democrat said Tuesday that he wants to use a major defense policy bill to expand federal hate crimes laws to protect gays, bring troops home from Iraq and force Baghdad to pay more toward reconstruction costs.
AP - The Bush administration is sending a senior State Department official to run the Mideast office of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair as part of new efforts to support Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, The Associated Press has learned.
AP - Legislation to provide millions of dollars in new pension benefits to Filipino veterans of World War II cleared a key Senate hurdle Tuesday, but the White House and some Republicans said the money is better spent on U.S. soldiers fighting the war on terrorism.
AFP - A US air strike Tuesday killed 10 people in Baghdad, Iraqi officials said, as the American military announced the deaths of five troops and a female suicide bomber slaughtered six Iraqis north of the capital.