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Lt. Gen. William Odom explains his op-ed that appeared in The Washington Post on Feb. 11 where he laid out his reasons why the United State will not be able to achieve victory in Iraq.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has announced the start of a phased withdrawal of British troops from southern Iraq. And British soldiers would begin to withdraw from the country entirely if security conditions allow, Blair said. His plan calls for 1,600 personnel to leave by the end of 2007.

The federal appeals court has upheld the controversial detainee bill known as the Military Commissions Act. In a 2-1 ruling, the court said the measure constitutionally wiped out all of the pending court cases from detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., rules that detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have no right to challenge their detention in U.S. courts. The case is expected to move on to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Russian opposition leaders say officials are banning their parties from taking part in local elections across the country next month. They say their candidates are being struck off ballots on technicalities. They say this is the Kremlin's latest assault against democracy.

Former chess champion Garry Kasparov has brought together a coalition of opposition parties for Russia's 2008 elections. Critics say Russian President Vladimir Putin has consolidated so much power that the country's democracy is in jeopardy.

Opponents of a U.S. military base expansion in Italy take to the streets of Vicenza. The Pentagon wants to double the size of the base. Italy's fragile coalition government has approved, but the issue is caught up in the war in Iraq and Italy's role in NATO's presence in Afghanistan.

For the second time in two weeks, Senate Republicans blocked consideration of a nonbinding resolution opposing a troop increase in Iraq. The rare Saturday session vote of 56 to 34 fell four short of the 60 votes required to move ahead. The House approved the same resolution Friday.

The federal government wants to change the way the nation's air-traffic control system is funded. Instead of taxes on passenger tickets, the Federal Aviation Administration is proposing moving to user fees and fuel taxes, and making airlines pay a premium for using congested airports.

In a rare weekend session, the Senate failed to advance a non-binding resolution opposing a U.S. troop increase in Iraq. Democrats fell four votes short of the sixty it needed to move forward with a resolution that the House passed on Friday.