Eight years into the war on terror, military wives are aces at anticipatory grief. The possibility of loss was introduced so early in my marriage, it may as well have been an attendant at the wedding. Immediately after our brief predeployment ceremony at city hall, my husband made sure I had our marriage certificate safely stored, as well as his will.

on the U.S. shootdown of an Iranian Unmanned aerial vehicle has beenby both the U.S. Army and the Iraqi Army. The UAV was shot down on February 25 about 60 miles north of Baghdad in Diyala province. The UAV was about 25 miles inside Iraq and U.S. fighters observed the UAV for an hour before shootingit down.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran is increasing its activity in Latin America and the Caribbean, including actions aimed at supporting the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, a top U.S. military commander said on Tuesday.Navy Admiral James Stavridis, who oversees U.S. military interests in the region as head of U.S.

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet U.S.

Tony Halpin in MoscowPresident Medvedev ordered a major military rearmament today, warning thatRussia faced the risk of "significant conflict".In a stark assessment, Mr Medvedev said that Nato was still intent on
expanding closer to Russia's borders and told military chiefs to raise the

    BAGHDAD, March 16 (Xinhua) -- The Iraqi Army force have besieged a camp housing Iranian rebel organization that opposes the Iranian Islamic regime in Iraq, an Interior Ministry source said on Monday.    "Iraqi soldiers took positions around Camp Ashraf since Thursday after the Iranian rebels refused to evacuate a building inside their camp," the source t

Iran can have nuclear power if it works with the WestIran and other countries will be allowed to develop a nuclear power capability if they agree not to put the technology to military use, Gordon Brown will say on Tuesday.The Prime Minister will say that Britain and other Western states will help
Iran build civil nuclear plans on condition that it abides by United Nations

Iranian reformist drops election bidTEHRAN, Iran - Iran's most prominent reformist, former President Mohammed Khatami, has decided to pull out of the race against the country's hard-line president to avoid splitting the pro-reform vote in forthcoming elections, a senior adviser said yesterday.Khatami's entry into the race against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last month boosted the hopes of reform

's mullahs are set to achievewhat decades of western diplomacy could not - bring about Arab/Israeli détente.Fears of nuclear weapons in the hands of Tehran's revolutionary Shiite regime are forcing a shotgun marriage of Tel Aviv and the Sunni Arab states in a stunning triumph of power politics over historical hatreds.

Reuters top ten news storiesdelivered to your inbox each day.WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Iranian businessman and his Tehran-based company were charged with illegally exporting to Iran helicopter engines and advanced aerial cameras designed for military aircraft, the U.S.