“Doctors in Fallujah are reporting there are patients in the hospital there who were forced out by the Americans,†said Mehdi Abdulla,…
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…
BAGHDAD, Nov 18 – Journalists are increasingly being detained and threatened by the U.S.-installed interim government in Iraq. Media have been stopped…
We had our daily car bomb today when a suicide bomber drove his car into a US patrol as it passed near…
She lays dazed in the crowded hospital room, languidly waving her bruised arm at the flies. Her shins, shattered by bullets from…
*BAGHDAD, Nov 16 (IPS) – At least 800 civilians have been killed during the U.S. military siege of Fallujah, a Red Cross…
It never fails to get my adrenaline flowing when my hotel rumbles from a car bomb detonating in central Baghdad. Last night…
*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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