A U.S. helicopter flies near smoke rising from Haifa Street clashes in BaghdadItem: One day after President Bush implored Congress to give his Iraq "surge" strategy a chance, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a non-binding resolution denouncing it.
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Item: One day after President Bush praised Russia, Iranian officials confirmed that they had taken delivery of advanced Russian air-defense missile systems that will be used to defend Iran's nuclear facilities.
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Item: There seldom is a quorum in Iraq's parliament because it is widely viewed as being irrelevant.
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Item: With the Taliban resurgent because the U.S. took its eye off the ball in Afghanistan, the Bush administration is belatedly preparing new military, economic and political initiatives aimed at preempting an expected offensive this spring by insurgents.
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Item: Four of the five Americans killed when a U.S. security company's helicopter crashed in a dangerous Sunni neighborhood in central Baghdad this week while trying to rout gunmen from high-rise buildings were shot execution style in the back the head after the crash landing.
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Item: It has been so long since Osama bin Laden appeared in a video, let alone has been heard from, that there's good reason to suspect he's severely incapacitated or dead. In either event, Ayman al-Zawahiri may be about to take over Al Qaeda.
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Item: After originally blaming British Army troops just over the border in Iraq, Iran has hanged four men for blasts at a bank and office that killed eight people and injured at least 45 others in a rare instance of an anti-government attack.
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Item: In classic form, Vice President Cheney defiantly asserts that the Bush administration has achieved "enormous successes" and complained that critics are undermining the war effort.
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Photograph by Namir Noor-Eldeen/Reuters
A U.S. helicopter flies near smoke rising from Haifa Street clashes in Baghdad
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