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The Pentagon announced Thursday that 21,000 U.S. soldiers who were supposed to leave Iraq in a few weeks after a year-long tour of duty must stay there for three additional months. Ray Suarez provides a report.

The U.S. government has launched Al Hurra, a new Arab-language satellite television channel broadcast to 22 Middle Eastern countries from studios just a few miles outside the Washington beltway. Terence Smith looks at Al Hurra - Washington's latest media outreach…

Margaret Warner gets media perspectives from around the country on the Bush administration's responses to security concerns in Iraq, the decision to extend some U.S. troop deployments there and other developments from four editorial page editors.

Coalition forces on Tuesday surrounded the Shiite holy city of Najaf as the standoff with radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his al-Mahdi Army continued in Iraq. Regional experts discuss al-Sadr's influence over his followers and how the United States…