RAMADI, Nov 29 (IPS) – Hospital personnel are reporting regular raids and interference by the U.S. military as fighting continues in the…
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Nov 23 (IPS) – A year after the U.S.-led “Operation Phantom Fury” damaged or destroyed 36,000 homes, 60 schools…
Just before Saturday’s so-called constitutional referendum vote in occupied Iraq, one of my close friends in Baghdad wrote me, “I would like…
A quarter of a million people jammed the streets of the capital this past weekend, as Mr. Bush conveniently found himself visiting…
For the last several days at least 6,000 US soldiers along with approximately 4,000 Iraqi soldiers (Read-members of the Kurdish Peshmerga and…
A remarkable proportion of the violence taking place in Iraq is regularly credited to the Jordanian Ahmad al-Khalayleh, better known as Abu…
ISTANBUL, Jun 27 (IPS) – New evidence on U.S. war crimes and violations of international law was presented at the concluding session…
Istanbul, Turkey Thank you very much for inviting me to the Culminating Session of the World Tribunal on Iraq. I first went…
At long last, the culminating session of the World Tribunal on Iraq is upon us. As a witness providing testimony, like the…
Yesterday at a conference in Baghdad, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, a prominent Shia leader who is also the head of the Supreme Council…
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