Iraq
Siege continues in Iraq as US escalates threats against Iran
By Joe Kay, April 26, 2008
The United States military’s brutal offensive in Sadr City continued this week, with overnight raids killing dozens of people, including many civilians. The US offensive against the impoverished...
US-backed crackdown in Basra paves way for opening up Iraq’s oil and gas
By James Cogan, April 25, 2008
The Iraqi government is following up its US-backed campaign of terror against the Shiite Sadrist movement and its Mahdi Army militia in Basra with moves to open up the country’s oil and gas reso...
Rice, US generals signal stepped-up bloodletting in Iraq
By Bill Van Auken, April 22, 2008
In a series of bellicose statements, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and US military commanders have signaled that there will be no letup in the bloodletting and terror that have been unleashed...
US military tightens siege of Sadr City as cleric warns of war
By Peter Symonds, April 21, 2008
Scores of people have died over the past week as US and Iraqi forces tightened their noose around the huge working class suburb of Sadr City in Baghdad and pressed into the remaining strongholds of th...
US and Iraqi military continue push into Sadr City
By Peter Symonds, April 16, 2008
US and Iraqi troops are continuing operations against strongholds of the Mahdi Army—the militia aligned with cleric Moqtada al-Sadr—in Baghdad and the southern port city of Basra. The vast...
Bush orders Iraq escalation to continue
By Patrick Martin, April 11, 2008
In a brief televised speech delivered just before noon Thursday, President Bush announced that there would be no further reduction of US troop strength once the current drawdown of forces is completed...
Congressional hearings set stage for wider war—inside and outside of Iraq
By Bill Van Auken in Washington, DC, April 10, 2008
As the mass media’s attention remained focused Wednesday on the rerun of testimony by Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker—this time before two House committees—a sparsely...
General Petraeus gives Senate a blueprint for an unending occupation of Iraq
By Bill Van Auken in Washington, April 9, 2008
Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker testified before two packed hearings on Capitol Hill Monday, serving up the predetermined recommendation that the US occupation of Iraq continue indefin...
On eve of Petraeus testimony, US launches raids on Baghdad’s Sadr City
By Bill Van Auken, April 8, 2008
On the eve of congressional testimony by the top US military commander in Iraq and Washington’s ambassador to the country, US military forces launched bloody raids in Sadr City, the crowded Shia...
Iraqi prime minister pledges new offensives in Basra and Baghdad
By Peter Symonds, April 4, 2008
Despite last week’s humiliating setback to the US-backed offensive into Basra, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki vowed yesterday that operations would continue “to liberate” areas...
US-backed assault on Basra ends in humiliation for Maliki government
By Bill Van Auken, April 1, 2008
Relative calm returned—at least temporarily—to the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Monday after a week of fierce fighting was ended by an Iranian-brokered ceasefire declared by the nationa...
Repeated US air strikes in Basra and Baghdad
By Peter Symonds, March 31, 2008
Hundreds of people have died in six days of fierce fighting as the US puppet regime in Baghdad has sought to stamp its control over the port city of Basra, centre of Iraq’s southern oil fields. ...
