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Muqtada al-Sadr is the most important and surprising figure to emerge in Iraq since the U.S. invasion. He is the Messianic leader…
Patrick Cockburn
Patrick Cockburn is an award-winning Independent columnist who specialises in analysis of Iraq, Syria and wars in the Middle East. In 2014 he forecast the rise of Isis. He also did graduate work at the Institute of Irish Studies, Queens University Belfast and has written about the effects of the Troubles on Irish and British policy in light of his experience.
A new civil war is threatening to explode in Iraq as American-backed Iraqi government forces fight Shia militiamen for control of Basra…
"It reminds me of Iraq under Saddam," said a militant opponent of Saddam Hussein angrily to me last week as he watched…
To judge from the talk in Washington, the ‘surge’ that put 30,000 more US troops on the ground in Iraq has succeeded…
The cultivation of opium poppies whose product is turned into heroin is spreading rapidly across Iraq as farmers find they can no…
In the Qandil Mountains. Hiding in the high mountains and deep gorges of one of the world’s great natural fortresses are…
At 3 am on January 11, 2007 a fleet of American helicopters made a sudden swoop on the long-established Iranian liaison office…
The United States is moving closer to war with Iran by accusing the “highest levels” of the Iranian government of supplying sophisticated…
There are growing suspicions in Iraq that the official story of the battle outside Najaf between a messianic Iraqi cult and the…
Baghdad is paralysed by fear. Iraqi drivers are terrified of running into impromptu checkpoints where heavily armed men in civilian clothes may…