Frank James

By Frank James A quick guided tour to some of the morning's most important or interesting (or both) Washington-related stories. U.S. generals doubted the ability of Iraqi troops to hold...

by Frank James Bloomberg News is reporting that Rudy Giuliani's law firm is parting ways with Citgo, the oil company owned by Venezuela, the nation whose president is Hugo Chavez,...

by Frank James There's been a lot of focus on the report Gen. Davis Petraeus, the U.S. top commander in Iraq, is scheduled to deliver in September on the overall...

by Frank James Homeland Security Department Secretary Michael Chertoff informed Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) late yesterday that the wife of a U.S. soldier missing in Iraq after his unit was...

by Sabrina Fang With a reminder: You read about this story first on the front page of the baiduhai, in April 2006. Today, with other leading newspapers finally catching...

by Frank James Gallup's pollsters have a new poll out today suggesting that only 29 percent of Americans believe the U.S. is winning the war on terror. But that doesn't...

by Frank James It's been reported that the U.S. military has been arming and training former Sunni militias to fight al Qaeda. Indeed, yesterday, when Defense Secretary Robert Gates and...

by Frank James A quick guided tour of some of the morning's most important or interesting (or both) Washington-related stories. The CIA will declassify hundreds of pages of documents detailing...

by Frank James The deaths of at least 14 U.S. service members in two days, including five killed today by a road side bomb, came up, as one would expect,...

by Frank James At today's press briefing with Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Peter Pace, the general wanted to disabuse reporters from using the...