BAGHDAD, Nov 23 (IPS) – The prime minister is following in the footsteps of the last president. The rule of Ayad Allawi,…
Baghdad, Nov 20 – While debate continues in the United States about how best to manage the occupation and nation building of…
In Ramadi today 6 civilians were killed in clashes between the resistance and military. The military sealed the city, closing all the…
We had our daily car bomb today when a suicide bomber drove his car into a US patrol as it passed near…
BAGHDAD, Nov 18 – Journalists are increasingly being detained and threatened by the U.S.-installed interim government in Iraq. Media have been stopped…
She lays dazed in the crowded hospital room, languidly waving her bruised arm at the flies. Her shins, shattered by bullets from…
It never fails to get my adrenaline flowing when my hotel rumbles from a car bomb detonating in central Baghdad. Last night…
*BAGHDAD, Nov 16 (IPS) – At least 800 civilians have been killed during the U.S. military siege of Fallujah, a Red Cross…
*BAGHDAD, Nov 15 (IPS) – * Everyone saw it coming, only the U.S. forces did not: humanitarian disaster in Fallujah, and stronger…
Last week the US launched a major offensive on Fallujah using heavy artillery, bulldozers and tanks. The target was insurgents, but here…
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