BALTIMORE, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The Walters Art Museum, Winterthur Museum & Country Estate and the University of Delaware's Department of Art Conservation have been selected by the United States Department of State to be cultural partners to participate in the Iraq Cultural Heritage Project announced at the Embassy...
Martin Sheen and Roseanne Barr Endorse Cindy Sheehan For Congress SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Sean Penn, a San Francisco resident, Academy Award and Golden Globe winning actor and director, and star of the film "Milk," a biopic of the life and assassination of San Francisco supervisor...
COVER: "Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue: The World That Awaits" (p. 28). Contributing Editor Richard N. Haass offers advice on the global challenges that await the 44th president. In a memorandum to the president-elect, he writes that the world he is about to inherit "is not the world you've been discussing...
PARKERSBURG, W.Va., Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- For a fifth year, Woodcraft stores nationwide will conduct the Turn for TROOPS handmade pen turn-a-thon program during Veterans Day Weekend, Saturday November 8, 2008, with the goal of making and then sending thousands of handcrafted pens to American service personnel actively deployed...
Agreement Provides Renewals for More Than 30 DataPath Personnel Supporting Battlefield Communications in Iraq and Afghanistan DULUTH, Ga., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- DataPath, Inc., a leading provider of satellite and wireless communications networks around the world, has received a $3.7 million order to provide on-site personnel to operate...
WASHINGTON -- James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 11:05 A.M. EDT MS. PERINO: Good morning. The President will make remarks at 1:10 p.m. today on the South Lawn, on volunteerism; a word about that. After 9/11, President Bush called on all Americans to serve their communities, their nation,...
BAGHDAD AFP — Brazilian coach Jorvan Viera was back at the helm of Iraq's national football team on Wednesday after lifting them to the Asian Cup champions title last year. "He signed on Tuesday evening for a one-year contract and his salary was set at 600,000 dolllars," Abdel Halak...
BAGHDAD AFP — The United States has three days to respond to fresh proposals from Iraq on the contentious security deal being negotiated by the two countries, a top Shiite MP said on Wednesday. Ali al-Adeeb of the Shiite Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council, a party closely allied to Prime...
BAGHDAD AFP — Ibrahim Jassam, an Iraqi photographer working for Anglo-Canadian news group Reuters, has been arrested by American forces just south of Baghdad, the US military and the agency told AFP Wednesday. "He has been detained because he has been assessed to be a threat to the security...
ST. PAUL -- Sporadic violence broke out as thousands of protesters marched on the Republican National Convention on Monday, chanting for an end to the war in Iraq and demanding Republicans be denied the White House in November's election. Members of the Connecticut delegation were roughed...
BAGHDAD AFP — A draft security deal between Washington and Baghdad on the future of US forces in Iraq is to be submitted to parliament within 10 days, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was quoted as saying on Tuesday. "The SOFA Status of Forces Agreement will be sent to parliament...
ST PAUL, Minnesota AFP — US President George W. Bush urged Republicans to rally around John McCain, anointing his chosen successor in a move which could prove both a blessing and curse. Bush declared that McCain "understands the lessons" of the September 11, 2001 attacks, including the need to...
ANALYSIS Political events in Iraq are seldom what they seem. The hand- over by the US military of control of Anbar province, once the heartland of the Sunni rebellion, to Iraqi forces is a case in point. The US will keep 25,000 American soldiers in Anbar, so...
How high-minded of Moqtada al-Sadr. After his forces were routed by American troops and the Iraqi army in Basra, Sadr City, and Amarah, he decided to disband his militia--or most of it--and make it a social-services organization. This is a declaration of surrender, and another blow against thuggery in Iraq....
WASHINGTON -- Today in Iraq, responsibility for security in Anbar Province was transferred to Iraqi civilian authorities. Iraqi forces will now take the lead in security operations in Anbar, with American troops moving into an overwatch role. Not long ago, Anbar was one of the most dangerous provinces in Iraq....
BAGHDAD AFP — Iraq has enough time to hold provincial elections this year but only if the nation's lawmakers wrap up a controversial law in the next two weeks, an electoral commission official said Monday. "It normally takes 128 days to organize the ballot but by making a huge...
BAQUBA, Iraq AFP — Counter-offensives by the security forces over the past year have largely rid Iraq of foreign fighters recruited by insurgent groups such as Al-Qaeda, a top police commander said on Monday. "Arab fighters have left Iraq and we are done with them," interior ministry spokesman Major...
ST PAUL, Minnesota AFP — They came in their thousands -- veterans, grandmothers, young families and even disgruntled Republicans bearing banners and peace flags, and calling in one voice to end the war in Iraq. Under the watchful eye of scores of police in riot gear, thousands of protestors...
RAMADI, Iraq AFP — Iraqi and US forces were on alert on Sunday in the western Sunni province of Anbar ahead of the transfer of security in the desert region from the American military to Baghdad. "Our forces are ready to take the security responsibility tomorrow Monday," Majid al-Assafi,...
DHULUIYAH, Iraq AFP — Last month Al-Qaeda fighters Abdul Rahman Mohammed and Ahmed Ali laid down their arms after nearly four years of fighting US soldiers in Iraq. The two young men and hundreds like them from Al-Qaeda and other insurgent groups in largely Sunni Arab Salaheddin province surrendered...
