Iraq
Washington demands permanent bases to repress Iraqis, launch new Middle East wars
By Bill Van Auken, June 6, 2008
The United States is demanding that Iraq grant it the authority to establish 50 permanent military bases scattered across the country, as well as other sweeping powers that would extend the present US...
Thousands of Iraqis protest agreement for indefinite US occupation
By David Walsh, May 31, 2008
Tens of thousands of Iraqis protested in a number of cities Friday against the proposed agreement between the puppet regime of Nouri al-Maliki and the Bush administration that would codify a long-term...
US military attempts to reignite fighting with Mahdi Army
By James Cogan, May 27, 2008
The order by Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr that his Mahdi Army militiamen offer no resistance to the US occupation is being exploited by the American military and the Iraqi government to repress his s...
As Senate approves new war funding, US massacres Iraqi civilians
By Joseph Kishore, May 23, 2008
US helicopters massacred at least eight civilians, including several children, in an operation in northern Iraq on Wednesday.
Iraq: Mass detentions in Mosul as troops move into Sadr City
By James Cogan, May 21, 2008
More than 1,300 men have been detained by the US military and the Iraqi government in the northern city of Mosul over the past 10 days, as part of an operation ostensibly aimed at smashing the Sunni f...
US soldier in Iraq disciplined for using Koran as target practice
By David Walsh, May 20, 2008
The US military in Iraq announced Sunday that it had disciplined and sent home a soldier found to have used the Koran for target practice. A Sunni Arab militiaman collaborating with American forces fo...
Over 500 juveniles held by US in Iraq and Afghanistan
By Joe Kay, May 20, 2008
United States occupying forces are holding about 500 juvenile prisoners in Iraq, and an additional 10 in Afghanistan, according to a document submitted by the US to the United Nations.
Iraq: Agreement struck to end fighting in Sadr City
By James Cogan, May 12, 2008
Representatives of the Iraqi government and the Shiite Sadrist movement led by cleric Moqtada al-Sadr announced on Saturday that an agreement had been reached to end the six-week siege by US and gover...
Hospital struck as US military tightens siege of Baghdad’s Sadr City
By Peter Symonds, May 5, 2008
US missile strikes on a small building adjacent to a major hospital in Baghdad’s Sadr City on Saturday left more than 20 people injured, destroyed ambulances and shook the entire neighbourhood. ...
Another political show trial in Baghdad: Tariq Aziz charged with genocide
By James Cogan, May 3, 2008
The trial that began this week of Tariq Aziz on the charge of genocide is a particularly vindictive act on the part of the Bush administration and its puppet government in Iraq. The court is trying hi...
Five years after “mission accomplished,” sharp rise in Iraqi and US casualties
By Bill Van Auken, May 2, 2008
May 1 marked the fifth anniversary of the infamous “mission accomplished” speech delivered by President George W. Bush aboard a US aircraft carrier. Five years after what Bush proclaimed t...
US escalates siege in Baghdad’s Sadr City
By Kate Randall, April 30, 2008
US forces continued their siege against Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood on Tuesday, leaving dozens dead. The US military said a four-hour firefight broke out around 9:30 a.m. between US forces ...
