Feb 07 Watch News Wrap: Iran Calls U.S. Sanctions on Central Bank 'Psychological War' In other news Tuesday, Iran dismissed U.S. sanctions against the country's central bank. A spokesman for the Iranian foreign ministry equated the move to "psychological war," and said Iran would not give up its nuclear program. In Iraq, ministers from… Continue watching
Jan 24 Watch Was Justice Served After Haditha Killings? At his sentencing hearing Tuesday, Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, the remaining Marine charged in the 2005 Haditha killings, expressed sorrow for the victims, and said he hadn't meant for his men to kill innocent Iraqis. Margaret Warner discusses his plea… Continue watching
Jan 09 Watch News Wrap: White House Chief of Staff Steps Down; Bombings in Iraq In other news Monday, President Obama announced White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley's resignation. Daley had been in the position for a year, and will be succeeded by Jacob Lew, the president's current budget director. Also, a court martial… Continue watching
Jan 05 Watch Panetta on Pentagon Budget: 'Cutting Almost $500 Billion Is Not Chump Change' In an interview Thursday after his news conference at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told Jeffrey Brown that the United States seeks to be a power in the Pacific and that defense budget cuts announced Thursday will be hard… Continue watching
Jan 05 Watch News Wrap: Another Wave of Bombings in Iraq Kills at Least 78 In other news Thursday, another wave of bombings struck in Iraq, killing at least 78 people. It was the second such coordinated attack since U.S. troops left the country last month. Also, the government of Myanmar announced that the party… Continue watching
Jan 05 Watch Weeks After Iraq Withdrawal, Obama Announces Plans to Shrink U.S. Military While unveiling the Pentagon's latest defense strategy Thursday, President Obama highlighted a new focus on Asia and a scaled-back military. Ray Suarez reports on the strategy shift, announced just weeks after the last American troops left Iraq. Continue watching
Dec 30 In Photos: World Events of 2011 By Larisa Epatko It's a year that will be remembered as one that ended authoritative regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen. In 2011, the most-wanted fugitive in the world was killed in Pakistan and severe weather battered the global population. Continue reading
Dec 29 Watch Thousands of Iraqis Who Helped Americans in War Caught in Visa Holdup In 2008, Congress passed a law allowing up to 5,000 Iraqis who had helped Americans during the war to come to the U.S. with their families as refugees each year, but the visa process has been slowed. Jeffrey Brown discusses… Continue watching
Dec 22 Watch In Face of Coordinated Attacks in Iraq, Should U.S. Have Stayed Put? The capital of Iraq was plunged back into chaos Thursday when at least 16 bombings shook Baghdad. Jeffrey Brown discusses the attacks' connection to a long debate about what the U.S. gained from its nearly nine years in Iraq, with… Continue watching
Dec 21 Watch News Wrap: Syrian Dissidents Report More Than 100 Killed by Government Forces In other news Wednesday, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki demanded that Kurdish authorities hand over Vice President Tariq Al-Hashemi, who fled to the Kurdish North this week to escape an arrest warrant. In Syria, dissidents reported government forces killed more… Continue watching