Full Coverage: Iraq

22.04.2008 Through the stories of the Rabban and Karana families, Adam Doster relates the immense difficulties facing Iraqi refugees -- including the few who manage to receive asylum in the United States.

21.04.2008 SAN FRANCISCO, Apr 21 (OneWorld) - About 300,000 U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or major depression. Another 320,000 veterans likely suffer from traumatic brain injury (TBI), a type of physical brain damage often caused by explosions from roadside bombs.

17.04.2008 Press freedom advocates have welcomed Wednesday's release of Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein, noting that his ordeal demonstrates a U.S. military practice of removing journalists from the field, locking them up, and never saying why.
From: Committee to Protect Journalists

16.04.2008 While General Petraeus and the American Ambassador to Iraq testified recently about security improvements and a decrease in violence in Iraq, they failed to mention the almost 5 million Iraqis displaced by the war. Jamal Dajani reports.

14.04.2008 Richard Butler, a British journalist who was kidnapped in Basra on 10 February, was rescued by Iraqi soldiers today.

09.04.2008 A military policy analyst mediates a blog of reactions and updates as the head of the U.S. forces in Iraq and the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq testify before Congress on the status of the war.

08.04.2008 Shortly after her husband's assassination, Coretta Scott King gave a dramatic speech in his place, elucidating the "10 Commandments on Vietnam" he had written out just before his death. They ring powerfully familiar today.

03.04.2008 The power struggle between the Iraqi government and Shi'a cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's militia -- most recently encapsulated in the "collapse" of the U.S. backed Basra offensive and Sadr's cease fire -- testify to the failure of the "surge," writes Phyllis Bennis.