The Americans learned one lesson from Vietnam: don't count the civilian dead. As a result, no one knows how many Iraqis have been killed in the five years since the invasion. Estimates put the toll at between 100,000 and one million, and now a bitter war of numbers is raging.
Lieutenant General Tommy Franks, who led the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan during his time as head of US Central Command, once announced, "We don't do body counts."
A suspected U.S. drone strike Thursday targeting an Islamic seminary in northwest Pakistan killed at least...
In the early stages of the ‘War on Terror,’ CIA agents at the Guantanamo Bay detention...
Days before the so-called bi-lateral security agreement heads to an Afghan council of elders and political...
