The More Things Change.. Abu Ghraib, May 23 — With the recent court-martial trial of one of the soldiers complicit in the…
Doctors from the General Hospital of Fallujah, as well as others involved with clinics throughout the city, are reporting that US Marines…
May 17, 2004; Ramadi, Iraq – The city of Ramadi, about 120km west of Baghdad, appears to be much more stable than…
Fallujah, Iraq, May 10 – The US 1st Marine Division sent a small convoy into Fallujah today in order to meet with…
Baghdad , Apr 23 – Three families of refugees from the besieged city of Fallujah who are seeking refuge in the Al-Adhamiya…
Baghdad, April 15 — Save us from the horrendous rumor mill of Baghdad. Yesterday we heard a good one: that the Mehdi…
Last night an older Iraqi man in his shop on Karrada Street told me, “The situation here is worse than I can…
Falluja, Iraq, a low-rise, mostly Sunni city of about 200,000, has become this war’s Sarajevo. I was there on Saturday and Sunday during what…
I knew there was very little media coverage in Falluja, and the entire city had been sealed and was suffering from collective…
Fallujah, Iraq — Fallujah is a bit like southern California. On the edge of Iraq’s western desert, it is extremely arid but…
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