Iraq
Turkish troops invade northern Iraq
By Patrick Martin, February 23, 2008
Thousands of Turkish army troops crossed the border with Iraq Friday in a major military operation against guerrilla forces of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), which has fought for decades against the...
Iraq: US occupation faces crisis of its own making
By James Cogan, February 21, 2008
The much-touted successes of the Bush administration’s deployment of 30,000 American additional troops to Iraq last year rest on unstable and rapidly eroding foundations. The unstated fear in th...
Risk of cholera multiplied by sewage collapse in Baghdad
By Oscar Grenfell, February 21, 2008
With the northern summer approaching, fears have been voiced that the dysfunctional state of the Iraqi sewerage system will cause a major outbreak of cholera or other water-borne diseases in Iraq&rsqu...
US Defense Secretary sides with military opposition to troop drawdown in Iraq
By James Cogan, February 14, 2008
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates solidarised himself on Monday with the demands of top-ranking US officers in Iraq to freeze the occupation force at 15 combat brigades, or some 130,000 troops, when t...
Iraqi parliament in turmoil as sectarian rivalries flare
By James Cogan, February 11, 2008
A bitter conflict is developing within the Iraqi parliament over the attempts of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to push through laws that are opposed by the Kurdish and Shiite parties that make up the...
British Army accused of “off the scale” abuses in southern Iraq
By Steve James, February 8, 2008
Horrifying allegations of torture and killings carried out by the British Army in southern Iraq emerged on January 31.
US military admits to a dozen civilian deaths in Iraq
By Naomi Spencer, February 6, 2008
The US military confirmed Tuesday that soldiers shot dead at least three Iraqi civilians in their beds Monday night north of Baghdad. The admission comes just a day after military officials acknowledg...
British-Iraqi survey confirms one million deaths as a result of US invasion
By David Walsh, February 1, 2008
Even as the Bush administration, virtually unchallenged by the Democrats or any significant voices in the media, claims ‘success’ in Iraq and makes clear its intention to establish permane...
Iraq: US military extends its offensive into the northern city of Mosul
By James Cogan, January 30, 2008
Since January 1, American and Iraqi government forces have been conducting a major offensive, codenamed Phantom Phoenix, against Sunni Arab-based resistance groups in northern Iraq. Operations have al...
Desperate plight facing millions of Iraqi refugees
By Oscar Grenfell, January 25, 2008
Nearly five years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, there is no end in sight to the difficulties facing Iraqi refugees in neighbouring countries such as Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. Facing government h...
“De-Baathification” laws modified by Iraq’s parliament
By James Cogan, January 17, 2008
With just 143 of its 275 members in attendance, the Iraqi parliament ratified legislation on Saturday that will replace the so-called “de-Baathification laws” imposed by the US occupation ...
New study estimates more than 150,000 violent deaths in Iraq over three years
By Naomi Spencer, January 14, 2008
A new study by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Iraqi government estimates that more than 150,000 Iraqis died from violence during the three years after US invasion in 2003. The findings, p...
