With the United States formally ending its military operations in Iraq, many analysts are beginning to examine Iran’s deep influence in the country. In light of of Iran’s growing tensions with the Westover its burgeoning nuclear program, Tehran’s maneuvers in Iraq carry tremendous strategic implications.
The end of the Iraq War went largely unremarked upon by the American public.
The Mujahideen-e Khalq’s Paris-based leadership is reluctantly cooperating with a U.N. plan to resettle its endangered members in an Iraq refugee camp.
George Bush’s torture facilitator finds much to like in William Shawcross’s new book.
Iraqi oil was always foremost in the minds of neocons.
The remnants of Iranian dissident group the MEK confined to an Iraqi refugee camp face a massacre when the United States leaves.
Seven years after the U.S. invasion of Fallujah, there are reports of an alarming rise in the rates of birth defects and cancer. But the crisis, and its possible connection to weapons deployed by the United States during the war, remains woefully under-examined.
Once again, a Spanish judge has indicted three American soldiers for the killing of Spanish cameraman José Couso at the Palestine Hotel in the 2003.
When you destroy someone’s property, you usually have to pay compensation. The United States is responsible for much of the destruction that has taken place in Iraq since the 2003 invasion. But instead of offering compensation to the Iraqis, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) has demanded that the Iraqi government pay the United States compensation in dollars for the cost of U.S.-led war. The Iraqi response was to kick Rohrabacher out of Baghdad.
It’s shameful how threatened officials and the media are by accurate estimates of how many civilians died in the Iraq War.