With Alaa Hassan BAGHDAD - Iraqis seem divided over the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian-born leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. U.S. and Iraqi officials said he was killed along with seven allies in an air raid overnight in Baquba, 50km northeast of Baghdad....
In the span of less than a week the first group of U.S. National Guardsmen were dispatched to help patrol the Mexican border, and Canadian authorities arrested 17 Muslim men accused of plotting bombings in major Canadian cities and training militants. Both are...
The investigations of Marines for possible murders of Iraqi civilians in Haditha last November and, more recently, in Hamdaniyah, seem set to follow the usual course. If anyone is found guilty, it will be privates and sergeants. The press will reassure us that the...
UNITED NATIONS - The 191-member General Assembly is expected to elect Iraq as chair of a key UN committee dealing with human rights and social development. But the proposed election comes at a time when both the United Nations and several human rights organizations...
With Isam Rashid BAGHDAD - Baghdad's central morgue received more than a thousand bodies each month this year, a doctor has revealed. The body count here gives a more accurate picture of the story in Baghdad than any official statistics. Before the war, this morgue,...
A long-awaited report [.pdf] by the Council of Europe on European complicity in "extraordinary renditions" secretly carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) against suspected terrorists was hailed here Wednesday by human rights groups, even as...
Major stories on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi since 2004, from the archives of Antiwar.com: "Avoiding Attacking Suspected Terrorist Mastermind," Jim Miklaszewski, NBC News, March 2, 2004 The generals wanted to kill Zarqawi before the war. The administration said no....
There are plenty of reasons the Democrats continue to support the ongoing occupation of Iraq. Not only did they authorize the invasion, they continue to sit on their hands while our armed forces commit murder in the name of democracy in Haditha. Perhaps the worst of...
LONDON - The Taliban are beginning to regain influence in the south of Afghanistan, according to an independent group actively engaged in local work in the region. They are also increasingly confronting government and coalition troops inside Afghanistan, says the...
With Alaa Hassan BAGHDAD - An Iraqi doctor who was in Haditha during a deadly U.S. raid last year says there are many more stories like that in Haditha that are yet untold. The Pentagon admitted last week that U.S. Marines killed 24 civilians – including a...
