Charles Shaw: How long have you been reporting on Iraq, and what brought you there? Dahr Jamail: I have spent 6 of…
BAGHDAD, Dec 7 (IPS) – The Baghdad Medical City has begun to look nice in its new coat of paint. It does…
Yesterday, before the usual morning gunfire in the streets which has become my morning alarm clock, Abu Talat phones me. There is…
*Journalists and residents who have fled Fallujah share accounts of US troops killing unarmed and wounded people; Dahr Jamail continues interviewing survivors…
It’s a late morning start today…as I’m waiting for Abu Talat, who calls to tell me he is snarled in traffic and…
Abut Talat and I, snarled in the horrendous daily traffic of Baghdad, decide to laugh about it. “Maybe we should consider a…
BAGHDAD, Nov 30 (IPS) – The Iraqi ministry of health is failing to provide enough support to hundreds of thousands who fled…
I’m in need of a haircut, so I ask Abu Talat if he thinks it would be safe to get one here,…
BAGHDAD, Nov 26 (IPS) – The U.S. military has used poison gas and other non-conventional weapons against civilians in Fallujah, eyewitnesses report.…
BAGHDAD, Nov 23 (IPS) – The prime minister is following in the footsteps of the last president. The rule of Ayad Allawi,…
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