WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- The Obama administration asked retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni to be U.S. ambassador to Iraq, but pulled the offer without explanation, the general said.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Gen. Anthony Zinni, the former U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, says Barack Obama should engage Hamas and move quickly to broker a peace deal.

WASHINGTON, June 26 (UPI) -- The Hungarian Revolution and the Suez crisis were two of the most dramatic upheavals in international affairs in the post-World War II era. If Israel were to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities while President Bush is still the commander in chief, China and Russia might be tempted to take a page out of the old Soviet geopolitical playbook.

WASHINGTON, March 14 (UPI) -- The abrupt resignation of Middle Eastern commander Adm. William J. "Fox" Fallon over a controversial interview and profile in Esquire magazine was a carefully choreographed exit for the 63-year-old Navy aviator. The first Navy man appointed to head the Central Command, which stretches from the Middle East to South Asia and includes Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, he is now one of three former Centcom commanders who are opposed to bombing Iran's nuclear facilities if the mullahs keep on trucking their nuclear weapon ambitions.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- “I very much fear the risk of civil war” was the gist of the e-mail UPI received from Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistani leader now under house arrest.

WASHINGTON, April 15 (UPI) -- Retired U.S. Gen. Anthony Zinni said Sunday that President Bush and his advisers were determined to do something "dramatic" in Iraq after Sept. 11, 2001.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Democrats with a new congressional majority are being cautioned to move slowly with their plans to reduce troop numbers in Iraq, The New York Times reports.

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 22 (UPI) -- Top Bush administration officials, including Condoleezza Rice, reportedly will be asked to testify in the Virginia espionage case of former Israeli lobbyists.

WASHINGTON, April 13 (UPI) -- Retired Army Maj. Gen. Charles H. Swannack Jr. Thursday joined a group of former U.S. military officers critical of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.