SENATE DEMOCRATS BEGIN IRAQ HEARINGS
Foreign policy specialist Michael O'Hanlon discusses the situation in Iraq during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing about problems in Iraq on Capitol Hill in Washington on January 10, 2007. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)
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The former commander of U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan warns automatic budget cuts known as sequestration could end up harming national security.
Afghan insurgents planted 4,472 bombs this spring and summer, more than at any other time during the war, Pentagon figures indicate.
The foreign policy directives of U.S. President Barack Obama in trouble spots ranging from NATO to Pakistan are on solid ground, analysts say.
Ethnic divisions and territorial ambitions in the northern regions of Iraq are a greater challenge than immediate security and political concerns, analysts say.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is being faulted by critics for not having visited Iraq since January 2006, observers say.
The number of missions conducted by unmanned aerial Predator drones over Iraq doubled as fighting intensified in Baghdad's Sadr City, analysts say.
Iran appears to be keeping its October promise to help stop arms heading into Iraq, top-ranking U.S. officials said.
A Pentagon request for extra funding to combat growing sniper attacks in Iraq was wrong, as such attacks are decreasing, USA Today reported Tuesday.
Some foreign policy experts are said to be considering the possibility of a partitioned Iraq. Such a situation is believed be a possible way to preempt violent ethnic cleansing, the Christian Science Monitor reports.
The reduction of Republican influence in Washington will see a change in U.S. policy on Iraq, the Christian Science Monitor said Wednesday.
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