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*NAJAF, Iraq, Jan 31 (IPS) – Iraqi government lies over the killing of hundreds of Shias in an attack on Sunday stand…
Dahr Jamail
Dahr Jamail is the Baghdad correspondent for The NewStandard. Jamail, a political activist from Anchorage, Alaska, first traveled to Iraq in November 2003 to write about the effects of the US occupation on the Iraqi people. After nine weeks covering Iraq under occupation, he returned to the US and addressed audiences in Alaska and the Northeast about his experience. He has recently returned to Iraq in order to continue reporting on US occupation and privatization. You can view his dispatches and articles at http://newstandardnews.net/iraq.
*AMMAN, Jan 29 (IPS) – Hundreds of thousands have fled the violence in Iraq to seek refuge in Jordan, but refugees are…
I would like to bring your attention to a story I covered last August about 1st Lt. Ehren Watada. The story covered…
FALLUJAH – A stepped up military offensive that targets mosques, religious leaders and Islamic customs is leading many Iraqis to believe that…
*BAGHDAD, Jan. 10 (IPS) – The U.S. administration continues to tout Iraq as a shining example of democracy in the Middle East,…
*BAGHDAD, Dec. 29 (IPS) – Former dictator Saddam Hussein is due to be executed next month in a move that could bring…
*BAGHDAD, Dec. 28 (IPS) – More U.S. troops are expected to be deployed in Iraq in the New Year. Despite obvious rethinking,…
*BAGHDAD, Dec 27 (IPS) – The Iraqi government headed by Prime Minister Noori al-Maliki, like earlier governments assigned by U.S. occupation authorities…
BAGHDAD, Dec. 11 (IPS) — Women face increased risk of abduction by militias and criminal gangs as lawlessness takes over the country.…
The situation in Iraq has reached such a point of degradation and danger that I’ve been unable to return to report —…