Suicide bombers unleashed another day of hell across Iraq today, killing at least 18 and wounding over 67. Four of them struck…
AMMAN, Jun 7 (IPS) – Ahlam Najam just needed a job. At 25, she had a university degree in education but could…
“Iraq Dispatches” The mayhem continues in Iraq, with today at least 40 people dead, including five US soldiers in Diyala province as…
Yesterday Iraq’s Minister of Defense, Sadoun al-Dulaimi, announced that starting Saturday 40,000 Iraqi troops will seal Baghdad and begin to “hunt down…
It’s coming apart at the seams now in Iraq. We saw on the news today that members of the Mehdi Army in…
Amman, Jordan It isn’t difficult to find Iraqis in Amman nowadays. The word on the street is that somewhere around half a…
I neither read nor listen to corporate media drivel concerning Iraq…but today I wonder what they could possibly be saying to justify…
It isn’t an accident that, after 11 weeks, only as I’m leaving again, do I find myself able to write about what…
As if to add insult to injury, with over 400 Iraqis killed in violence during the first two weeks of the newly…
DAHR JAMAIL spent eight months working as an independent journalist in Iraq. As one of the few journalists not “embedded†with U.S.…
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