In the run-up to the Chilcot report, Tony Blair still thinks Iraq would have been worse off without the invasion. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair [Reuters] by Rachel Shabi @rachshabi Rachel Shabi is a journalist and author of Not the Enemy: Israel’s Jews from Arab Lands. It is an […]
Sat June 18, 2016 By Hassan Lasjerdi June 18, 2016 As Iraqi forces along Popular Mobilization Forces also known as al-Hashd al-Shaabi are engaged in fierce clash with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Daesh) terrorist group and have so far been able to deal major blows to […]
GENEVA | BY STEPHANIE NEBEHAY Bones, suspected to belong to members of Iraq’s Yazidi community, are seen in a mass grave on the outskirts of the town of Sinjar, November 30, 2015. REUTERS/ARI JALAL/FILES Islamic State is committing genocide against the Yazidis in Syria and Iraq to destroy the religious […]
ERBIL, IRAQ | BY MAHER CHMAYTELLI AND ISABEL COLES Iraqi soldiers gather to go battle against Islamic State militants south of Mosul , Iraq, June 15, 2016. REUTERS/STRINGER Once Islamic […]
Source: Time By Jared Malsin/Debaga Camp, Iraq “Everything is depressed there. Everything.” The chemical engineer escaped on a moonless night, fleeing from ISIS-held territory. As he crossed the front line, ISIS […]
Source: Huffington Post By Jennifer R. Breedon Human Rights Analyst & Foreign Policy Expert Focused on Religious Extremist Ideology & International Law “We pray for the souls of the Islamic State militants that killed our families. We know they are motivated by evil and pray they can be freed.” I will […]
Each false atrocity bleeds into the body of evidence of other, real crimes, contaminating the truth for decades to come Robert Fisk in Beirut @indyvoices We all know the problem. […]
By Reuters – Jun 06,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Iraqi government forces drive on a road near the village of Al Azraqiyah, northwest of the city of Fallujah, on Sunday, during an operation to regain control of the area from the Daesh terror group (AFP photo) BAGHDAD/ERBIL, Iraq — An […]
By Gaelle Sundelin – Jun 04,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Haider’s small hands struggle to find the edge of the brown scotch-tape roll. The 12-year old is not putting the final touches to some science project or building a kite. He is taping the window panes of his […]
It may not be a written text, more a collection of stories handed down by apostles, generation after generation, only later formed into a codex Robert Fisk @indyvoices Friday 3 June 2016 197 comments 420 So, Sir John Chilcot’s report is going to be “four times as long asWar and Peace”, is […]
Source: Politico By NAHAL TOOSI The Obama administration, having declared two months ago that the Islamic State is committing genocide, is now grappling with how to actually prosecute the terrorist […]
May 25,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN Fallujah was a centre of the Iraqi uprising against British occupation in 1920, the first city in Iraq to revolt against the US occupation in 2003 and the first Iraqi city to submit to Daesh rule in 2014. Consequently, Fallujah cannot be […]
May 21,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MUSA KEILANI The recapture of the Iraqi town of Rutba by government forces gives two strong indications: that Daesh is not invincible; that the Iraqi military knows how to win a battle when it is determined, without having to use ragtag militias like Badr […]
Source: The New York Times By SARAH ALMUKHTAR Terrorists killed more than 200 people in a surge of bombings across Baghdad over the past week. The attacks, many of […]
The (British) Government hasn’t grasped the extent to which Western governments are discredited in the Middle East Mark Steel @mrmarksteel Thursday 26 November 2015 16 comments This looks simple enough then. We’ll bomb the same people as Putin is bombing, in the same places, co-ordinated with Putin. But […]
Source: CNN By Jomana Karadsheh and Joshua Berlinger (CNN)At least 64 people were killed when a bomb went off at a market in Baghdad, according to Iraqi police. An additional […]
Published time: 6 May, 2016 15:29 © Jason Reed / Reuters British special forces under US command have reportedly captured three mid-ranking Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terror chiefs in lightning raids in IS-held northern Iraq. The IS leaders were handed to Kurdish and Iraqi officials for interrogation, the Mirror […]
May 03,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – OSAMA AL SHARIF Iraq’s political system is on the verge of collapse and the events of the past few days raised serious questions about the viability of the state amid the popular backlash that has crippled the government and divided lawmakers. Leading the rebellion […]
Source: The Daily Beast BAGHDAD, IRAQ — Hussain Jassim refused to leave the Green Zone, once considered the impenetrable citadel at the heart of Baghdad, until his leader Muqtada al-Sadrordered him to do so. “We have entered parliament and we have broken it’s prestige in front of people because they […]
Source: The New York Times By JAMES GLANZ and IRIT PAZNER GARSHOWITZ GIVATAYIM, Israel — During a boisterous Passover Seder with her extended family, Sabiha Ziluf, 75, paused and said […]