BAGHDAD - Gen. David Petraeus, whose strategy for countering the Iraq insurgency is credited by many with rescuing the country from all-out civil war, stepped aside Tuesday as Gen. Ray Odierno took over as the top American commander of the conflict.

WASHINGTON - Army Gen. David Petraeus, the four-star general who led troops in Iraq for the past year, will be nominated by President Bush to be the next commander of U.S. Central Command, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON - The rapid U.S. build up in the Afghan war will include more terrorist-hunting forces to chase down militants deemed too extreme to change sides, a top U.S. general revealed on Wednesday. "There's no question you've got to kill or capture those bad guys that are not reconcilable," Gen. David Petraeus, the chief of U.S. Central Command, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "And we are intending to do that."

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama ousted Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Wednesday, saying his scathing published remarks about administration officials undermined civilian control of the military and eroded trust on the president's war team.

BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan - Afghan tribes are needed as crucial battlefield allies against the Taliban and other extremists in the same way local militias rose up to oppose insurgents in Iraq, the new military overseer of America's two wars said Thursday.

WASHINGTON - President Bush on Thursday ordered an indefinite halt in U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq after July, embracing the key recommendations of his top war commander. Bush said Gen. David Petraeus will "have all the time he needs" to consider when more American forces could return home.

BAGHDAD - After intense U.S. assaults, al-Qaida may be considering shifting focus to its original home base in Afghanistan, where American casualties are running higher than in Iraq, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said Saturday.

The top commander of the Arizona National Guard will lose his post in a couple of months because a certain state senator continues his efforts to overrule the authority of Gov. Janet Napolitano as commander-in-chief.

It almost seems like more than five years ago that the United States invaded Iraq. Unfortunately, no clear and satisfactory end to this conflict seems to be on the horizon.

 Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker were impressive in last week’s hearings regarding the current situation in Iraq, a year-plus into the “surge” and a few months into the inevitable drawdown of the additional troops provided by the surge.

WASHINGTON - President Bush's decision to send more troops to Iraq evoked increasing Republican opposition as a Democratic-led Senate panel prepared tough questioning for the man who would carry out the plan as the new war commander.

WASHINGTON - President Bush, on a collision course with Congress over Iraq, said Friday "I'm the decision-maker" about sending more troops to the war. He challenged skeptical lawmakers not to prematurely condemn his plan.

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has approved a request by the new U.S. commander in Iraq for an extra 2,200 military police to help deal with an anticipated increase in detainees during the Baghdad security crackdown, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday.

Tribune readers offered mixed reviews of President Bush’s seventh State of the Union speech Tuesday night.

Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute now joins Gen. David Petraeus in having the most thankless task in the U.S. government — trying to win, or at least engineer an acceptable stalemate, in Iraq.

Q: What is Metadata? And after the scandal of General Petraeus, are our emails private from government agencies? - Jeremy

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Russia and neighboring Central Asian nations have agreed to let supplies pass through their territory to American soldiers in Afghanistan, lessening Washington's dependence on dangerous routes through Pakistan, a top U.S. commander said Tuesday.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Military force alone is "not sufficient" to end the violence in Iraq and political talks must eventually include some militant groups now opposing the U.S.-backed government, the new commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said Thursday.

The colorful Wheels of Justice bus, filled with bio-diesel fuel, drove through the West Valley on Saturday in a coast-to-coast demonstration against the Iraq war.

A decade after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Americans still have a lot to learn about their own nation’s foreign policy and the Islamic religion, according to a panel discussion hosted Thursday by the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University.

A decade after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Americans still have a lot to learn about their own nation’s foreign policy and the Islamic religion, according to a panel discussion hosted Thursday by the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University.

A decade after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Americans still have a lot to learn about their own nation’s foreign policy and the Islamic religion, according to a panel discussion hosted Thursday by the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University.

KABUL - U.S. troops in Afghanistan saw their supply lines squeezed from the north and east Tuesday after militants blew up a bridge in Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan's government said it would end American use of a key air base following Russia's announcement of new aid.