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Civil war is raging through the Iraqi countryside. Sunni insurgents have largely taken control of the province of Diyala, where local leaders…
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.
Nabatiyeh. The war in Lebanon has not ended. Every day, some of the million bomblets which were fired by Israeli artillery during…
The republic of fear is born again. The state of terror now gripping Iraq is as bad as it was under Saddam…
It is the war that was meant to have ended for good. Just under five years ago the Taliban fled Kabul without…
Gaza is dying. The Israeli siege of the Palestinian enclave is so tight that its people are on the edge of starvation.…
Khanaqin, North-East Iraq. The state of Iraq now resembles Bosnia at the height of the fighting in the 1990s when each community…
LRB | Vol. 28 No. 7 dated April 6, 2006 | Patrick Cockburn Diary Iraq is splitting into three different parts. Everywhere…
Iraq is disintegrating. The first results from the parliamentary election last week show the country is dividing between Shia, Sunni and Kurdish…
The British government is trying to stall an investigation into the theft of more than $1.3bn (£740m) from the Iraqi Ministry of…
The following is an exclusive interview with long-time activist and writer Milan Rai. Milan is the author of ‘War Plan Iraq’ and…