with Arkan Hamed BAGHDAD - Not even the elevators work now at Baghdad Medical City, built once as the center for some of the best medical care. One of the ten elevators still does, and the priority for this is patients who have lost their legs – and there are...
Update at 8:05 p.m. EDT, Sept. 26, 2008At least 11 Iraqis were killed and 13 more were wounded in the latest attacks. A roadside bomb killed a U.S. soldier in Iskandariya. Also, followers of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr peacefully continued their weekly protests...
with Eli Clifton and Jim Lobe A group of hard-line US neoconservatives and former Israeli diplomats, among others, are behind the mass distribution, ahead of the November US presidential election, of a controversial DVD that critics have denounced as Islamophobic. The...
In an implicit indictment of President George W. Bush's "global war on terror" and the hawkish pronouncements by Republican candidate John McCain, a bipartisan group of nearly three dozen U.S. leaders called here Wednesday for Bush's successor to place much...
Updated at 5:30 p.m. EDT, Sept. 25, 2008At least 15 Iraqis were killed and 24 more were wounded in the latest attacks. The bombings continued in Baghdad, while a suicide bomber killed a U.S. soldier in Baquba. Also, a Saudi national was killed during a raid in Mosul....
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's choice of Joseph Biden as his running mate has drawn sharp criticism from many Democrats as a result of the Delaware senator's support for the US invasion of Iraq, his flagrantly false claims about the alleged Iraqi...
At a press conference following his speech to the UN General Assembly Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he would welcome discussions with the US presidential candidates, but added that "the condition is that our meeting should be open so that...
Fellow Antiwar.com columnists (and friends) Alan Bock and Ivan Eland have recently written about Pakistan, so I hope readers will forgive me for piling on. But it's hard to ignore Pakistan at the moment. On Saturday, a truck bomb killed more than 50 people –...
Imagine being seized in Afghanistan or Pakistan, where you were, perhaps, a completely innocent man sold for a bounty, or a Muslim soldier fighting other Muslims in a civil war whose roots lay in the resistance to the Soviet occupation of the 1980s, which was partly...
As I read the latest headlines reporting the ongoing implosion of the domestic economy and the ominous signs of a pending explosion in the international sphere, I watch a leaf fall from a very great height. The redwoods out here are like the pillars of a temple built...
