Mid East Daily

Hopes for a fast removal of the British forces from Iraq seem to have weakened. A British minister said yesterday that the current force level in Iraq was required for the protection of the troops. Bob Ainsworth, the Armed Forces minister, told the...

Despite US increasing troop numbers, patrolling streets, crackdown on militants - rising violence in Iraq mocks at US claims to quell violence and now US plans to elongate its stay in Iraq until 2009, which makes everyone apprehensive whether US be..

The violence continues unabated in Iraq and political stability is still alluding. Another gruesome evidence of rising sectarian conflict surfaced with mass massacre of 29 members of a Shiite tribe by Sunni militants near Muqdadiyah, about 20 miles...

The pressure on Bush administration to pull out troops from Iraq at the earliest and make radical shift in his Iraq misadventure, has lessened with unexpected support coming from the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The UN chief, though, never...

While going through 'Exit strategy'on 'Washingtonpost' by Karen DeYoung and Thomas E. Ricks, wherein they have mentioned that the US troop withdrawal from Iraq will destabilize or may divide the country, well, very much true, but the duo forgot...

A shocking revelation for many Americans, but a reality in the Middle East - nationals of Saudi Arabia constitute the majority chunk of Al Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Since the beginning of the Iraq occupation, the White House is hell-bent on...

The growing power of the Mahdi Army led by hard-line cleric Moqtada al-Sadr poses more danger to both Iraqi citizens and the US in the Sunni dominated western part of Baghdad than the Al Qaeda led insurgency. The violent activities sponsored by the...

The insoluble Palestine and Israeli conflict is invigorating with latest developments, which I'll call the Israel's callousness that it's repeatedly shown to outdo Palestinian concerns while confiscating in Gaza - a land which legally belongs to...

If there is one thing that is routine with regards to Iraq war, it's the failed US 'surge' and more blood shed. It's the same, yesterday it was 100 and today 120 and the day before..., the numbers are similar, just slightly higher or lower. These days.

Unprecedented mayhem and deadly violence left Iraq in tatters and forces one to contemplate what next. Is it time for US to retreat? Or continue with callousness while ignoring the blunt messages and innocent plights. What I feel is - Iraq is now a...