By playing for time, Iraq may be attempting to make it harder for Washington to make the case for a military invasion.

THE US must decide whether the Iraqi people would benefit from any move to topple Saddam Hussein, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said yesterday.

The US must decide whether the Iraqi people would benefit from any move to topple Saddam Hussein, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said today.

Colin Powell’s disappointing Mideast peace mission is prompting painful soul searching in Washington about what can be done to keep Israeli-Palestinian violence from hurtling into all-out war.

The United States is struggling to maintain the backing of Arab and other Muslim states even as it warns that it may take its war against terrorism beyond Afghanistan.