Full Coverage: Iraq

22.05.2007 The death of Ali Khalil of the daily al-Zaman brings to 177 the number of journalists and media workers killed in Iraq since March 2003.

17.05.2007 Iraq has fractured into competing power bases, is experiencing several simultaneous civil wars and will collapse unless new strategies are implemented, a leading British think-tank warns today.
From Chatham House

12.05.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, May 12 (OneWorld) - More than 1,000 people turned out this week for one the largest conferences to date on the health effects of the Iraq war.

11.05.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, May 10 (OneWorld) - Antiwar activists from around the country will celebrate Mothers Day by converging on Washington, DC, where they will demand Congress end the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

09.05.2007 WASHINGTON, May 9 (IPS) - In the run-up to the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Pentagon planned to create a 'Rapid Reaction Media Team' (RRMT) designed to ensure control over major Iraqi media while providing an Iraqi 'face' for its efforts, according to a 'White Paper' obtained by the independent National Security Archive (NSA) which released it Tuesday.

06.05.2007 The US attack on Fallujah in April 2004 convulsed the city – 60-70 per cent of the buildings were flattened and the population stands at only 30-50 per cent of its pre-war level. Yet there is little public knowledge of what has been described as “one of the most extensive human rights violations of recent times”. A play in London’s Brick Lane is trying to put it back on the map.

02.05.2007 An advocacy group lays out the mounting costs -- in lives, dollars, and terrorist attacks -- of the war in Iraq, four years to the day after U.S. President George W. Bush announced the end of "major combat operations" there.