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President Bush's approval rating stands at 30 percent in the latest Newsweek poll, the lowest approval rating recorded for the president in that poll's history. |
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An American helicopter was shot down in fighting near Najaf between gunmen and Iraqi forces backed by U.S. firepower. |
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Thirteen people were killed when a U.S. forces helicopter they were riding in went down northeast of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. |
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Following an investigation, Maj. Gen. Thomas Turner of the 101st Airborne Division refers murder charges against the soldiers for the alleged crimes that occurred in Mahmoudiya, south of Baghdad, in March. Four U.S. soldiers are accused of raping and killing a 14-year-old girl and slaying her sist ... |
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Total US military fatalities in Operation Iraqi Freedom for the month of September 2006 is 73, bringing the total US dead in the conflict to 2715. |
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Iraqi police find 60 bodies, all showing signs of torture, dumped around Iraq's capital city. This drives the total number of bodies discovered in the week commencing 9/24 to 122. The day prior, U.S. Maj. Gen. William Caldwell notes a "tough week" and that murders and executions are now the leadin ... |
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A University of Maryland survey is released showing that most Iraqis think the US presence in their country is doing more harm than good. 71 percent favor a commitment by U.S.-led forces in Iraq to withdraw in a year. It also indicates that six out of 10 Iraqis now actually favor attacks on U.S. fo ... |
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Key conclusions of the National Intelligence Estimate are released after President Bush orders its declassification. One assessment is that Iraq is shaping a new generation of terror leaders. Another is that success in Iraq is crucial to defeating terrorism. |
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A commission of the Canadian Government exonerates Canadian computer engineer Maher Arar of any ties to terrorism and issued a scathing report faulting both Canada and the United States for his deportation four years ago to Syria, where he was imprisoned and tortured. The report said that American ... |
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Syrian security forces repel an attack by several gunmen on the U.S. Embassy in Damascus. |
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Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri calls on Muslims to step up their resistance to the United States. |
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A bomb planted in a mini van detonates outside the Palestine Hotel in downtown Baghdad, killing at least six people and injuring 16. A bomb also explodes in the town of al-Khalis, on the outskirts of Baqouba just north of Baghdad, killing six and wounding more than a dozen. |
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After two weeks of negotiations, Islamic militants freed Fox News journalists Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig in the Gaza Strip. One of the former captives said they were forced at gunpoint to make statements, including that they had converted to Islam. |
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600 Protestors march through Kennebunkport, Maine and rally near the Bush family compound calling for an end to US involvement in the Iraq conflict. |
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Looters ransack the former British base near the southern Iraqi city of Amarah one day following the pullout of the remaining British troops. Followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr hail the abrupt exits as a victory over the "occupiers." |
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A bomb strapped to a motorbike kills nine people and injures more than 20 near the busy al-Rashid shopping area. Iraq is presently suffering under a surge of violence with 100 people being killed daily. UK Ambassador William Patey and US General John Abizaid have suggested that civil war is a more ... |
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General John Abizaid tells the US Congress that "Iraq could move toward civil war" if the raging sectarian violence in Baghdad is not stopped. Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, confirmed this likelihood when he also told the panel, "We do have the possibility of that devolvin ... |
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The United Nations reports that an average of more than 100 civilians per day were killed in Iraq in June of 2006. registering what appears to be the highest official monthly tally of violent deaths since the fall of Baghdad. |
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A roadside bomb kills a U.S. soldier early Saturday in the Iraqi capital.. The attack occurrs as the soldier was driving in southern Baghdad, the military said. The number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war stands at 2,435, including 1,920 deaths in hostile incidents. |
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Gunmen kill the son of Iraq’s top judge as the country’s newly designated Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki struggles to form a national unity government. A May 22nd constitutional deadline to form the new Cabinet is rapidly approaching. |
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Vice President Dick Cheney's role in the Valerie Plame CIA criminal investigation is widened as a result of newly disclosed notes showing that Cheney personally asked whether Wilson had been sent by his wife on a "junket" to Africa. In the margins of Joe Wilson's op-ed, Cheney scribbled a series of ... |
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The FBI searches the home and office of former CIA Executive Director Kyle "Dusty" Foggo. Foggo is under investigation over his ties to a defense contractor linked to the bribery case against former Republican Representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham of California. |
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Roadside bombs killed three U.S. soldiers Thursday in separate incidents southwest of Baghdad. The total number of U.S. military troops and civilians that have died in the Iraq War now stands at 2429. On Wednesday, Baghdad's morgue reported that 1,091 people were killed in the city's daily violenc ... |
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The US government abruptly ends an inquiry into the warrantless eavesdropping program because the National Security Agency refused to grant Justice Department lawyers the necessary security clearance to probe the matter. Specifically the DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) sends a fax ... |
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During the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, Stephen Colbert delivers a biting 20-minute speech and video presentation which roasted both the Bush Administration and White House Press Corps. Many find the presentation unfunny and over-the-line, while others see it as a much neede ... |
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More than 90 people are reported killed or injured in 3 explosions in the Egyptian resort town of Dahab. |
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White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan resigns while standing with embattled US President George W. Bush. FOX News personality Tony Snow will later be named as a replacement. |
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A palestinian suicide bomber kills 5 at a bus station in Tel Aviv, Israel. |
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The FBI and The Christian Science Monitor announce that.American hostage Jill Carroll, who was kidnapped in Iraq on January 7th, has been released. |
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After US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld suggested that a US withdrawal from Iraq would be the equivalent of handing Germany back to the Nazis, Retired Major General Paul Eaton declares that Rumsfeld "has shown himself incompetent strategically, operationally and tactically, and is far more th ... |
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