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Timing of Iraq war commander Gen. David Petraeus' testimony the Congress is a cheap attempt by President George W. Bush and his administration to draw a non-existent link between Iraq and 9/11, families of the victims of the Sep 11, 2001 terror attacks claimed today.

US soldiers are killing civilians with impunity in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Department of Defense is going to "unprecedented lengths" to suppress information about these war crimes, according to the nearly 10,000 pages of Pentagon documents made public by the American Civil Liberties Union.

United States President George W. Bush's strategy of promoting democracy in the Middle East has sharpened the Arabs negative
perception against the United States and hardened the Islamists position toward the existing regimes and moderate Arabs, a Middle Eastern scholar argues in the latest edition of the journal Arab Insight.

Senior military officials covered up Iraqi prisoner abuses by US forces in 2003, according to new documents obtained by human rights groups under the Freedom of Information Act which also revealed that an Army investigator found that the conditions of prisoners held in isolation at Abu Ghraib qualified as torture.

Opposition Liberal Democrats are calling on the British Government to grant asylum to Iraqis whose work for the British forces in Iraq has put their lives in danger.

One million Iraqis have been killed in the violence caused by the US-led invasion of March 2003, an independent think tank estimated based on the study published in prestigious medical journal The Lancet and the online civilian casualty database Iraq Body Count.

After discharging 60 Arabic language translators for being gay, the military is now forced to rely on a translating machine that has not been fully tested, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Troops in Iraq are not weary of war but are tired of sceptics, deputy commander of Multinational Force in Iraq said today.

2,000 Iraqis are now fleeing their homes every day, and about 4.2 million have become displaced since the fall of Saddam Hussein prompting aid agencies to double the aid target but US has ruled out any further assistance in terms of accepting refugees or providing additional funding.

Democrat Governor Bill Richardson on Monday said that the Bush administration were foolish to fund Iraqi exile groups in the delusional expectation that they will somehow be able to topple the regime, and called on the President not to repeat the mistake.