Stories by Patrick Cockburn
The ceasefire agreement is intended to end seven weeks of fighting in which more than 1,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed.
Posted on May 14, 2008
Five years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Mosul, one of the world's great cities, has become a desolate battleground.
Posted on May 12, 2008
The killing of three U.S. soldiers in Baghdad raised the number killed in April to 47, reversing a trend towards lower American casualties.
Posted on May 2, 2008
And the biggest question: Who is left from Saddam Hussein's regime?
Posted on May 1, 2008
One of the most famous faces of Saddam Hussein's regime, Aziz is accused of ordering the execution of 42 merchants for increasing food prices in 1992.
Posted on Apr 28, 2008
The recent explosion of violence is making a mockery of Bush's claim that America had turned the corner in Iraq.
Posted on Mar 31, 2008
Muqtada al-Sadr called for a campaign of civil disobedience in which shops, businesses, schools and universities would close down.
Posted on Mar 26, 2008
This the fifth of Iraq's blood-sodden anniversaries since Bush invaded, and the country is now utterly ruined.
Posted on Mar 17, 2008
The "surge" in Iraq isn't working, but the PR for it has -- the truth is that Iraq could return to a bloodbath at a moment's notice.
Posted on Mar 8, 2008
Many Iraqi Kurdish leaders are convinced that a hidden aim of the Turkish attack is to undermine the Kurdish regional government.
Posted on Feb 25, 2008
Life in Iraq, the Pentagon boasts, is returning to normal. But the truth is a very different story.
Posted on Feb 15, 2008
The nightmare is working!
Posted on Feb 11, 2008
War-hawks say the "liberal media" don't report positive progress from the edges of Empire.
Posted on Jan 18, 2008
Americans will discover, as the British learned to their cost in Basra, that they have few permanent allies.
Posted on Dec 14, 2007
A devastating disaster looms over Mosul, an Iraqi city of almost 2 million.
Posted on Aug 8, 2007
Another war in Iraq looms as Turkey's 140,000 troops amassed on the border with Kurdish Iraq threatens to set off a new wave of violence and destabilization in the Middle East.
Posted on Jul 23, 2007
From the moment foreign armies were ordered into Iraq, al-Qaeda was bound to be the winner.
Posted on Jul 7, 2007
Occupation forces offered peace talks to nationalist cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and then tried to arrest or assassinate him under cover of negotiations.
Posted on May 22, 2007
Iraq may have been a pushover in the invasion, but the price of occupation for America could exact a heavy toll on its empire.
Posted on May 11, 2007
Bush's "surge" has put army and police checkpoints everywhere in Baghdad but Iraqis are terrified approaching them because they do not know if the men in uniform they see are in fact death squads.
Posted on May 5, 2007
The stand-off over the 15 British sailors and marines captured by Iran ended with a de facto prisoner exchange, despite denials by Britain and Iran that a swap was intended.
Posted on Apr 6, 2007
Oil-rich Kirkuk is at a melting-point. With most Western eyes focused on the sectarian violence that’s torn Baghdad apart, this Borthern city is spiraling out of control.
Posted on Mar 28, 2007
It's official: A new report shows that the U.S. has made the world more dangerous -- not just for Americans, but for everyone.
Posted on Mar 1, 2007
The British Prime Minister's announced reduction in troops is an admission of what George Bush still desperately denies: defeat.
Posted on Feb 24, 2007
The Shia cleric al-Sadr draws his influence from channeling the sentiments of the millions of Shia poor, preaching a mixture of militancy against Sunnis and skepticism against Shia elites.
Posted on Feb 16, 2007
DC can't stop distorting the unpopularity of the occupation in Iraq: the Iraq Study Group revealed that on one day last July US officials reported 93 attacks or significant acts of violence. In reality, it added, "a careful review of the reports ... brought to light 1,100 acts of violence."
Posted on Dec 11, 2006
The U.S. failure in Iraq has been even more damaging than Vietnam because the opponent was punier and the imperial ambitions even greater.
Posted on Oct 31, 2006
