Stories by Gareth Porter
In a 63-page paper reflecting conversations with others who have served in Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis argues that it's too late for the U.S. to defeat the insurgency.
Posted on Oct 16, 2009, Source: IPS News
Obama team's charge that construction on Iran's second uranium-enrichment facility is part of a covert decision to violate its nuclear treaty obligations is questioned.
Posted on Oct 5, 2009, Source: IPS News
General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani may be providing assistance to Taliban insurgents, yet the U.S. government continues to fund the Pakistan military.
Posted on Aug 8, 2009, Source: IPS News
The police in Helmand province, who are linked to the local warlord, have committed horrific abuses against pre-teen boys.
Posted on Jul 29, 2009, Source: IPS News
The five Iranian detainees were grabbed in a 2007 raid on vague claims by the U.S. military that they were part of a "clandestine network."
Posted on Jul 14, 2009, Source: IPS News
U.S. Forces in Afghanistan have been paying locals to target terrorist strongholds. But is it working?
Posted on Jun 15, 2009, Source: CounterPunch
U.S. air strikes have been touted as eliminating top al Qaeda leaders, but they are actually weakening Pakistan’s defense against the insurgency.
Posted on Apr 18, 2009, Source: IPS News
Strategists argue that escalating U.S. airstrikes and raids in Pakistan could actually strengthen radical jihadi groups.
Posted on Mar 30, 2009, Source: IPS News
"They will be called advisory and assistance brigades," says Defense Secretary Gates. "They won't be called combat brigades."
Posted on Mar 26, 2009, Source: IPS News
The notion that U.S. military presence has definitively shaped the region has been thoroughly discredited.
Posted on Mar 9, 2009, Source: IPS News
Obama refused to send the full 30,000 troops requested by his generals because they had no plan for how to use them.
Posted on Feb 26, 2009, Source: IPS News
David Petraeus and Ray Odierno say Obama's 16-month withdrawal plan is too risky. But a senior commander in Iraq disagrees.
Posted on Feb 19, 2009, Source: IPS News
A network of senior military officers appears to be engaged in an effort to mobilize public opinion against Obama's decision to leave Iraq.
Posted on Feb 7, 2009, Source: IPS News
Both Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and whoever is chosen as his opponent are expected to try to pin responsibility for Western sanctions on each other.
Posted on Dec 16, 2008, Source: IPS News
Mere weeks after 9/11, the Bush administration was too busy planning to invade Iraq to follow through on its mission in Afghanistan.
Posted on Oct 7, 2008, Source: IPS News
Signs that the Iraqi PM's stance on U.S. withdrawal is hardening is undermining Bush's plan for indefinite occupation.
Posted on Sep 2, 2008, Source: IPS News
Now is not the first time the Iraqi Prime Minister sought a timetable for U.S. withdrawal.
Posted on Jul 31, 2008, Source: IPS News
New Iraqi resistance to U.S. demands reflects Iran's influence as well as Sadr's belief that he could succeed in driving U.S. forces out.
Posted on Jul 11, 2008, Source: IPS News
American promises made to the Iraqi government on the question of military bases have been revealed as carefully-worded ruses.
Posted on Jun 13, 2008, Source: IPS News
How Pentagon officials firmly opposed a proposal by Dick Cheney last summer for airstrikes against the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps.
Posted on Jun 10, 2008, Source: IPS News
The military insists that Iranian arms are fueling the Iraqi insurgency, but continue to provide little evidence to back up the claim.
Posted on May 23, 2008, Source: IPS News
A plotted sequence of events to build domestic U.S. support for a possible strike against Iran over its "meddling" in Iraq has hit some snags.
Posted on May 15, 2008, Source: IPS News
An investigative report reveals the how TV military analysts have a vested economic interest in selling the Bush admin's happy talk about Iraq.
Posted on Apr 21, 2008, Source: Huffington Post
The effort is an indication that the operation was viewed as a major embarrassment just as Gen. David Petraeus is about to testify before Congress.
Posted on Apr 8, 2008, Source: IPS News
The signs that the Madhi Army will no longer be passive mark a major defeat for the U.S. military command's strategy.
Posted on Mar 30, 2008, Source: IPS News
McCain's gaffes have been a reflection of how thoroughly he has internalized neoconservative spin.
Posted on Mar 28, 2008, Source: IPS News
The Sunni insurgent strategy of flooding U.S.-backed paramilitaries with their own fighters appears to be making it stronger than ever.
Posted on Mar 12, 2008, Source: IPS News
Last time it was scary speed-boats, this time it's a bogus link to a bombing in Argentina -- one by one, Iran hawks' lies keep unraveling.
Posted on Jan 26, 2008, Source: The Nation
Evidence contradicts U.S. hawks' claim that Iranian patrol boats threatened U.S. ships, but the media keep reporting it as fact.
Posted on Jan 11, 2008, Source: IPS News
Departments of State and Defense split over how to approach Iran
Posted on Jan 4, 2008, Source: IPS News
Centcom Commander's threatened resignation was seen as a major obstacle to an all-out attack.
Posted on Oct 22, 2007, Source: IPS News
While U.S. officials try to gin up a war with Iran by accusing it of meddling in Iraq's affairs, their real problem is that al Sadr's Mahdi army is determined to end the occupation and is simply too big to be beaten by military force.
Posted on Oct 10, 2007, Source: IPS News
The Lieberman-Kyl Amendment is aluminum tubes all over again.
Posted on Sep 27, 2007, Source: Huffington Post
The charge that Tehran is using Iran's elite Quds Force to fight a proxy war in Iraq does not ring true, as even the United States' top man in Iraq, General David Petraeus, has conceded.
Posted on Sep 19, 2007, Source: IPS News
Neocons beat the drums for another war.
Posted on Aug 18, 2007, Source: Huffington Post
Who else in the Bush administration was aware of the secret proposal?
Posted on Feb 20, 2007, Source: IPS News
A careful look at statements by adminstration officials makes it clear: the president's Iran policy does not involve military force.
Posted on Jun 23, 2006, Source: IPS News
Militant Shiites hold the high cards in any showdown against the U.S. occupying forces -- continued attacks against them would be a decisive defeat for the occupation.
Posted on Apr 6, 2006, Source: IPS News
The United States has an opportunity to negotiate a peace settlement in Iraq. Will George Bush take it?
Posted on Mar 18, 2005, Source: Foreign Policy in Focus
