Nation May 09 U.S. Forces Launch Major Operation Against Foreign Insurgents In one of its largest ground operations since the taking of Fallujah six months ago, U.S. Marines and other American forces launched a major operation targeting insurgents operating in Western Iraq, near the Syrian border.
Politics May 06 British Prime Minister Blair Wins Historic Third Term British Prime Minister Tony Blair won a historic third successive term in office, but with a significantly smaller parliamentary majority for his Labour Party due to voter backlash over his support of the war in Iraq.
Nation May 05 Insurgents Strike Iraqi Security Forces Insurgents continued a bloody series of assaults Thursday, targeting Iraq's security forces and recruits in four separate attacks in Baghdad that killed at least 21 people and wounded another 26.
Nation May 04 U.S. Broadcast Industry On Christmas Eve 1906, Canadian inventor Reginald Fessenden conducted the first radio broadcast in history, sending a recording of Handel's Largo, Christian hymns and a "Merry Christmas" to United Fruit Co. boats in the Atlantic Ocean.
Nation May 04 The Future and Past of Broadcast Radio Spanish talk shows, eclectic music mixes, and entertaining ads were not the common fare on American broadcast radio just a few years ago.
Nation May 04 Suicide Bomber Kills Dozens in Northern Iraq A suicide bomber posing as a job applicant at a police recruiting center in the city of Irbil blew himself up Wednesday, killing at least 50 people and wounding some 100 others. An Iraqi militant group claimed responsibility for the…
World May 04 Pakistan Captures Top Al-Qaida Leader Pakistani authorities announced the capture of a top level al-Qaida leader Wednesday, Abu Farraj al-Libbi, who has been blamed for two assassination attempts on Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf.
Nation May 03 Iran Says It Will Resume Nuclear Activity On the opening day of a U.N. conference on the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Iran announced Tuesday that it will continue pursuing all "legal" nuclear activities.
Politics May 03 Iraq's First Elected Government Takes Office Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari was sworn in as prime minister in Baghdad Tuesday as Iraq's first democratically elected government took office.
Nation May 02 Trio of Car Bombs Mark Latest Violence in Iraq Three car bombs exploded in Baghdad on Monday, killing at least eight people in the latest surge in violence since a new Iraqi government was named last week.