Is the Middle East on the threshold of restructuring?
YASAR YAKIS June 04, 2023 The political order that prevailed in the Middle East for centuries came to an end after the First World War. The victors of the war […]
Iraq’s Christians fight to save threatened ancient language
By AFP – Jun 03,2023 – JORDAN TIMES In this photo taken on May 16, the Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Mosul Michaeel Najeeb presents an old Syriac-language Christian codex at the Eastern […]
Iraq: Christian NGOs accused of trying to convert Yazidis
Yazidi community leaders have expressed outrage at attempts by western proselytisers to recruit their people to Christianity through aid work Christian pamphlets handed out to Yazidis by missionaries, written in […]
American found guilty of torture in Iraq
US soldiers take position on top of Police Building during a training session by US army at al-Karama police headquarter in Mosul, north of Baghdad June 16, 2009. AFP May […]
Duchess of Edinburgh becomes first royal to visit Baghdad in Iraq
bbc.com By Rachel Russell BBC News The Duchess of Edinburgh has become the first UK royal to visit Baghdad – as part of her work to support survivors of sexual […]
Amman meeting explores path to end crisis in Syria
By JT – May 02,2023 – JORDAN TIMES The foreign ministers of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq and Egypt during a consultative meeting in Amman on Monday (Petra photo) AMMAN — The […]
Iraq’s new role in the region
BY FERHAT TUTKAL AUG 18, 2021 – DAILY SABAH An aerial view of Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 11, 2021. (REUTERS Photo) Iraq is entering a new era with Prime Minister Mustafa […]
Baghdadis enjoy iftar in historic Ottoman Barracks’ garden
BY DAILY SABAH WITH AA ISTANBUL APR 11, 2023 – EDITED BY MINDY ANN YARTAŞI Iraqi citizen named Um Muhammed talks to Anadolu Agency (AA) correspondent at Ottoman Barracks in Baghdad, […]
Democracy lost: Iraq’s two decades of shattered hopes
The US has a historic responsibility for the misery that has been unleashed on Iraq, and it has the power to set things right. In Milton’s epic Paradise Lost, Satan, […]
20 years after Iraq: No accountability and no lessons learned
Apr 03,2023 – JORDAN TIMES / James J. Zogby It is tragic and deeply distressing that twenty years after the US launched its disastrous invasion of Iraq that the ignorance, […]
Revisiting America’s War of Choice in Iraq
Mar 17, 2023RICHARD HAASS Wars are fought not only on the battlefield but also in domestic political debates and in histories written after the fact. In the case of the […]
US resumes theft of Syrian oil hours after merciless attack on occupation bases
Dozens of fuel tankers filled with Syrian oil were smuggled by US occupation troops to their bases in northern Iraq ByNews Desk- March 25 2023 (Photo Credit: AFP) On 25 March, […]
Publicity for Ukraine war vs campaign to justify 2003 US war on Iraq
Mar 22,2023 – JORDAN TIMES / Michael Jansen The publicity for the Ukraine war has been handled far more successfully by the US, NATO and allies than the campaign to […]
The Iraq syndrome
The Iraq syndrome Mahir Ali Published March 22, 2023 Updated about 11 hours ago IT has been common knowledge for more than 20 years that almost immediately after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the […]
How the Iraq war was sold
In Pictures Gallery|In Pictures The US invasion of Iraq 20 years ago was sold to the world as one thing, but then the story had to be changed when the […]
2003 – 2011. The Iraq War
In March 2003, U.S. forces invaded Iraq vowing to destroy Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and end the dictatorial rule of Saddam Hussein. When WMD intelligence proved illusory and […]
Twenty years after invasion, is Iraq salvageable?
BARIA ALAMUDDIN March 20, 2023 The cataclysmic Iraq invasion was built on lies and fraudulent motivations, shattering the balance of the region in a manner that still has ramifications today, […]
Costs of the 20-year war on terror: $8 trillion and 900,000 deaths
TOPICSSocial Sciences DATESeptember 1, 2021 MEDIA CONTACT Jill Kimballjill_kimball@brown.edu401-863-5450 A report from the Costs of War project at Brown University revealed that 20 years of post-9/11 wars have cost the […]
A Look Back at How Fear and False Beliefs Bolstered U.S. Public Support for War in Iraq
BY CARROLL DOHERTY AND JOCELYN KILEYMARCH 14, 2023 Twenty years ago this month, the United States launched a major military invasion of Iraq, marking the second time it fought a war in that […]
Another potential game changer
Mar 15,2023 – JORDAN TIMES / Michael Jansen Last week, I wrote about how the visit to Tehran of International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi could be a game […]