with Ali Al-Fadhily BAGHDAD - After three and a half years of occupation, Iraq's medical system has sunk to levels lower than seen during the economic sanctions imposed after the first Gulf war in 1990. The World Health Organization (WHO) has said Iraqis are now...
Iraq is a wreck and Afghanistan is deteriorating, but that doesn't foreclose war with Iran. To the contrary, there is no evidence that the president realizes how much destruction he has wrought. Give him enough time, he seems to believe, and pro-American democracies...
Updated at 11:40 a.m. EST, Nov. 24, 2006 In the deadliest attack since the U.S. invaded Iraq, suspected Sunni militiamen killed at least 215 people and wounded 257 others in Shi’ite Sadr City today; the death toll is expected to go much higher. In other events,...
Updated at 7:55 p.m. EST, Nov. 22, 2006 There was less reported violence on Wednesday than in previous days, but at least 106 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 11 were wounded. Also, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq released a report...
George Orwell warned us, but what American would have expected that in the opening years of the 21st century the United States would become a country in which lies and deception by the president and vice president were the basis for a foreign policy of war and...
Justin Raimondo is taking the holiday weekend off. His column will return Monday. The continuing propaganda campaign directed at Vladimir Putin's Russia has taken a bizarre turn with the alleged "poisoning," in a London restaurant, of Alexander Litvinenko, a former...
The Democrats regaining control of both the House and Senate was seen by many as rejection of the Bush administration's Iraq policy and a referendum for withdrawal. The announcement the next day of Donald Rumsfeld's departure from the Pentagon and the nomination of...
Updated 9:50 p.m. EST, Nov. 22, 2006 As Iraq formally renewed diplomatic ties with neighboring Syria today, at least 144 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 55 more were injured. No foreign deaths were reported, but Coalition forces killed six in separate incidents...
With Ali al-Fadhily BAGHDAD - The arrest warrant issued last week by the Iraqi government for Sunni leader Dr. Harith al-Dhari has sent shock waves through the government and galvanized much of the Sunni population. Iraq's Minister of the Interior Jawad al-Bolani told...
In the wake of the recent crushing Democratic election victory, most pundits in Washington have been expecting the Bush administration to change course in Iraq. For those people, last week's testimony by Gen. John Abizaid, the U.S. commander ultimately in charge of...
